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Resources – Reframing childhood obesity

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The podcast hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith explores different aspects of diet culture, fatphobia, nutrition, and health.

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