Chronic Sex

• What Is Weight Stigma?
• Understanding Obesity and Social Stigma
• What Is Fat Acceptance?
• What Is Body Positivity?
• Body Positivity vs. Body Neutrality
• How to Practice Body Neutrality

Reality

• Can You Be Fat And Fit? More Health Experts Say Yes
• Is It Possible to Be "Overweight" and Healthy?
• Is the BMI Accurate? Experts Explain Why It's a Misleading Predictor of Health
• The Racist and Problematic History of the Body Mass Index
• The Real Reason You Can't Lose Weight

• 10 Intermittent Fasting Side Effects That Might Mean It’s Not A Great Fit For You
• The Real Reason You Don’t Need A Diet
• The Unbearable Weight of Diet Culture
• Why You Should Give Up Restrictive Dieting Once and for All

• 5 Dehumanizing Myths About Fat Men and Dating That We Can’t Excuse
• 7 Things I Wish People Knew About Being a Fat Woman
• Fat, Black Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack. Why Did It Take a Thin White Man to Get Our Cries Heard?
• How and Why Weight Stigma Drives The Obesity ‘Epidemic’ and Harms Health
• Kelli Jean Drinkwater: Enough with the fear of fat
• Obesity Stigma: Important Considerations for Public Health
• Perceived Weight Discrimination and Chronic Medical Conditions in Adults with Overweight and Obesity
• The 11 reasons why people hate fat people
• The mental load of living in a fat body
• The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update
• Thin privilege is buying clothes off the rack at a brick-and-mortar store
• Thin privilege is having medications like Plan B formulated for your body
• Thin privilege is not having your body used as a shorthand for a long list of negative qualities, characteristics and traits
• Why Weight? Improving the health of LGBTQIA+ patients by reducing weight stigma

• 11 Reasons Your “Concern” for Fat People’s Health Isn’t Helping Anyone
• BMI, mortality, weight stigma, science… sigh | by Emily Nagoski | Medium
• Exercise Isn’t Just About Weight Loss: 10 Tips To Navigate Radical Self-Love and Exercise Culture
• Health at Every Size and Eating Disorders
• My Cancer Pt. II, Medical Fat-Shaming Could Have Killed Me
• The Fat Misdiagnosis Epidemic
• Thin privilege is not having your “health” status be constantly the focus of, and scrutinized by, an entire culture
• Weight Stigma in Healthcare and My Story

• To Tackle Diabetes, Science and Health Systems Must Take Into Account Social Context

... and COVID-19

• Body Weight Changes During Pandemic-Related Shelter-in-Place in a Longitudinal Cohort Study
• COVID-19 Self-quarantine and Weight Gain Risk Factors in Adults
• Impactful Research Shows How Health Equity, Diabetes, and COVID-19 Are Linked
• Obesity, Race/Ethnicity, and COVID-19
• Stress in America: One Year Later, A New Wave of Pandemic Health Concerns (PDF)

... and Race/Ethnicity

• Appropriate Body-Mass Index for Asian Populations and Its Implications for Policy and Intervention Strategies (PDF)
• Deeply Rooted: An Endocrine Web Special Report on Race and Diabetes
• Diabetes and Asian Americans
• Differences in A1C by Race and Ethnicity Among Patients With Impaired Glucose Tolerance in the Diabetes Prevention Program
• Ethnic Differences in BMI and Disease Risk
• Hispanic/Latino Americans and Type 2 Diabetes
• “Hunger was never absent”: How Residential School Diets Shaped Current Patterns of Diabetes Among Indigenous Peoples in Canada
• Measuring Structural Racism and Its Association With BMI
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence, Self-Management, and Health Outcomes among Medicare Beneficiaries (PDF)
• Recognizing the Role of Systemic Racism in Diabetes Disparities
• Social Determinants of American Indian Nutritional Health
• The Black American Amputation Epidemic

... and LGBTQ+ Folks

• Diabetes and Men
• Diabetes and Women
• Diabetes Mellitus from Guidelines for the Primary and Gender-Affirming Care of Transgender and Gender Nonbinary People
• Diabetes Prevention and Management for LGBTQ People (PDF)
• Effects of Gender-Affirming Hormone Therapy on Insulin Resistance and Body Composition in Transgender Individuals: A Systematic Review
• Providing Culturally Sensitive Diabetes Care and Education for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Community
• Transgender Patients With Diabetes May Not Be Adequately Treated for Risk Factors

Comorbidities in Forcibly Marginalized Populations

• Black and Hispanic Americans at higher risk of hypertension, diabetes, obesity: Time to fix our broken food system
• Diabetes, Heart Disease, and LGBTQIA+ Populations
• HIV and Diabetes
• HIV and Diabetes Mellitus (PDF)
• Incidence of Diabetes Mellitus and Obesity and the Overlap of Comorbidities in HIV+ Hispanics Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy

Trauma, Discrimination, and Links to Diabetes

• Adverse Childhood Experiences and the Risk of Diabetes: Examining the Roles of Depressive Symptoms and Cardiometabolic Dysregulations in the Whitehall II Cohort Study
• Experiences of Discrimination and Incident Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
• Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in a Sample of Women: A 22-Year Longitudinal Study
• The Link Between Mental Trauma and Diabetes

• Bangalore, S., Fayyad, R., Laskey, R., DeMicco, D. A., Messerli, F. H., & Waters, D. D. (2017). Body-weight fluctuations and outcomes in coronary disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 377(1), 94–96. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmc1705832
• Dougherty, Geoff B. et al. Measuring Structural Racism and Its Association With BMI. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 59, Issue 4, 530 - 537
• Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. (2016, April 8). Ethnic differences in BMI and disease risk. Obesity Prevention Source.
• Puhl, R.M. and Heuer, C.A. (2009), The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update. Obesity, 17: 941-964. https://doi.org/10.1038/oby.2008.636
• Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. BMC Med 16, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
• Udo T, Purcell K, Grilo CM. Perceived weight discrimination and chronic medical conditions in adults with overweight and obesity. Int J Clin Pract. 2016;70(12):1003-1011. doi:10.1111/ijcp.12902
• WHO Expert Consultation. Appropriate body-mass index for Asian populations and its implications for policy and intervention strategies [published correction appears in Lancet. 2004 Mar 13;363(9412):902]. Lancet. 2004;363(9403):157-163. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(03)15268-3

Genetics

• Is obesity genetic? About 43% of people are predisposed, making it harder to lose weight
• What Is Generational Trauma? Here's How Experts Explain It
• Why people become overweight

Trauma

• The Link Between Childhood Trauma and Obesity
• Trauma may lead to weight gain in women
• What Is Generational Trauma? Here's How Experts Explain It

Food Deserts & Sovereignty

• Black urban farmers in the U.S. sow seeds to end 'food apartheid'
• Food apartheid: the root of the problem with America's groceries
• How Food Deserts Are Inextricably Linked to Racism in America
• Indigenous Food Sovereignty
• Resources on Indigenous Cultures & Food Sovereignty
• Seeding Food Sovereignty: Black and Indigenous Farming Leaders Share Their Strategies
• Why Food Belongs in Our Discussions of Race

• Anti-Fatmisia
• 5 Ways People With Thin Privilege Can Fight Body Terrorism
• 6 Tools For Understanding and Dismantling Weight Stigma and Fatphobia
• 8 Ways to Make Your Business More Body Positive
• Breaking the cycle of intergenerational diet culture
• How to be a Fat Ally: Clothing Store Edition
• “Normal” Bodies Don’t Exist: Celebrating Your Body in the Face of Fatphobia
• The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce by Angie Manfredi
• Unpacking Weight Stigma II: Creating More Equitable Groups

Activists & Initiatives

• Adrienne Bennett
• Ali Thompson
• Amber Tamm
• Anna Chapman
• Big City Gardener
• Black Futures Farm
• Black Girls with Gardens
• DaShaunLH
• Denarii Grace
• Ebony By Nature
• Fat Girl Flow
• Gather
• Isaias Hernandez
• Kevin J Patel
• Leah Thomas
• Marquisele Mercedes
• Mikaela Loach
• Native Praxis
• Oko Farms
• Rise and Root Farms
• Rock Steady Farm
• Sankofa Farms
• Soul Fire Farm
• Sundance Harvest Farms
• The Curvy Fashionista

Websites & Other Resources

• 8 Body-Positive, Fat-Friendly and HAES-aligned Zines
• 9 Foundational 101 Reads for Health at Every Size (HAES)
• Health At Every Size
• Resource Guide: Body-Positive and HAES Resources for Diabetes
• Sugar and Food Addiction: A Health at Every Size-Aligned Resource Guide