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Resources – Reframing childhood obesity

  • Report “The Amsterdam Healthy Weight Approach”
  • The Amsterdam Healthy Weight Approach demonstrates that a broad systems strategy delivered at the city level is a promising approach to promote and secure nutrition and health for all children in urban settings.

  • Book “Fat in Four Cultures: A Global Ethnography of Weight”
  • The comparative ethnography by Cindi Sturtz Sreetharan, Alexandra Brewis, Jessica Hardin, Sarah Trainer, and Amber Wutich explores how fat is perceived and experienced in Japan, the United States, Paraguay, and Samoa.

  • Report “From Crisis to Opportunity”
  • The latest report from The State of Childhood Obesity, a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that collects the best-available data on childhood obesity rates, synthesizes and makes recommendations on key policies to prevent obesity, and highlights stories of action from across the country.

  • Report “Multilevel approach to childhood overweight and obesity”
  • An evidence brief for Defra National Food Strategy by Lavis, C. Potter, K. Eli, S. Parrish, P. Nowicka & S. Ulijaszek from The Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO) at the University of Oxford.

  • Podcast “Around the Table: Food Stories from Science and Everyday Life”
  • Around the Table is a podcast from Stanley Ulijaszek, Professor of Human Ecology at the University of Oxford and Director of UBVO, and Dr. Tess Bird, an anthropologist of household uncertainty and wellbeing.

  • Podcast “The Burnt Toast”
  • The podcast hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith explores different aspects of diet culture, fatphobia, nutrition, and health.

  • Podcast “Maintenance Phase”
  • This podcast hosted by Michael Hobbes and Aubrey Gordon explores the health science and diet culture with from a critical anti-fatphobia perspective.