Weight and Health Module
Understanding Weight and Health
Module developed by Ragen Chastain, Sara Diaz, Sig/Sara Giordano, and Saralyn Lilly
Contents
1. Overview
From health class to doctors offices to advertisements for weight loss programs and drugs, we are...
2. What is the “Weight-Centric Health Paradigm”?
What is the first thing you are asked to do when you enter a doctor’s office? Most doctor’s offic...
3. What Does “Health” Mean?
Often in Western culture, health is seen as a simply defined binary state - people are either “he...
4. The History of Weight Science
The history of weight science can be traced to the racial sciences of the 19th and 20th centuries...
5. Dangers of Weight-Centric Health Paradigm
The weight-centric paradigm, and its myopic focus on shrinking the bodies of higher-weight people...
6. How to Read Weight Science Critically
In most classrooms, Science is taught as a way to determine fact from fiction. However, evidence ...
7. Challenges to the Weight Centric Health Paradigm
1. Fat Activism Let’s begin with a word about language. The terms “ob*se” and “overw*ight” were...