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Fat Talk Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

Virginia Sole-Smith

NEW YORK TIMES Kids learn, as we’ve all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents worry if their kids care too much about being thin, but even more about the consequences if they aren’t. And multibillion-dollar industries thrive on this fear...

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The book argued that obesity does not automatically correlate with health problems, emphasizing that weight alone should not dictate health judgments.

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We had a conversation last spring with Virginia Solesmith who wrote the book Fat Talk. And she pointed out over and over in this book that there is not a correlation between obesity and automatically...

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Episode: The Ozempic Revolution

The book argued that obesity does not automatically correlate with health problems, emphasizing that weight alone should not dictate health judgments.

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We had a conversation last spring with Virginia Solesmith who wrote the book Fat Talk. And she pointed out over and over in this book that there is not a correlation between obesity and automatically having health conditions, health problems.

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