Linda...In the News

Note: Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight has received considerable press attention.  Follow this link to read the press coverage. 

Linda Bacon was quoted or featured in the following media:

7/7/10, Daily Washington Post: Fashion: Full Figured Fashion Week draws plus-size crowd, Robin Givhan.

6/30/10, Daily Camera: When you don't fit in with the fittest city in America, Aimee Heckel.

5/22/10, Growing Access: Letter to the First Lady, Beth Herz and others.

5/10/10, City Currents: Health/Weight Focus for City College Author (see page 5), Patricia Arack.

4/18/10, The Observer: Why 'weight diversity' activists are standing up for the right to be fat, Louise Carpenter.

4/15/10, Washington Post: Me ... as I'm meant to be?, Linda Bacon.

4/13/10, AlterNet: Is Our Obsession with Weight Misguided? Here's What Really Matters When It Comes to Good Health, Jill Richardson.

3/31/10, AOL: Be Healthy at Any Size (and Stop Worrying About the Scale), Sarah Treleaven interviews Linda Bacon.

3/10, Skorch Magazine: Loving the Body You Have, Living the Life You Want, Shannon Russell.

3/22/10, KALW 91.7: Bay Area Residents Sound Off on the Health Care Bill.

3/15/10, New York Times: For Obese People, Prejudice in Plain Sight, Harriet Brown.

2/24/10, New Media: Top Seven Fitness Myths, Rice Bank.

2/23/10, Good Morning America: The Great Weight Debate: Is It OK to Be Fat?.

2/23/10, ABC Nightline News: The Great Weight Debate: Is It OK to Be Fat? (text copy), Juju Chang and Eric Johnson.

2/23/10, The View: The Great Weight Debate, Whoopi Goldberg.

2/22/10, Newstalk 1350 KSRO Radio: Weight Discrimination on Airlines.

2/16/10, BBC Radio (segment is from 1:24:00 to 1:32:00): Clerks director Kevin Smith reveals he was asked to get off a plane in the US because he was too big for the seats, Rod Sharp.

2/16/10, WVON Radio: Should heavier people be charged more for airline seats?, Santita Jackson.

2/14/10, The Sunday Indian: The Big Debate [about size acceptance], Anu Gulmohar.

2/9/10, AOL Health: FDA Eyes Update on Food Labeling, Portion Sizes, Mary Beth Sammons.

1/29/10, Weightless (Psych Central): Why It's Time To Change Our Thinking About Weight: Q&A With Linda Bacon, Part One, Margarita Tartakovsky.

2/1/10, Weightless (Psych Central): Why Health Matters and Size Shouldn't: Q&A With Linda Bacon, Part Two, Margarita Tartakovsky.

1/19/10, Star Herald: Can you be fat and happy — and healthy?, Rick Willis.

1/14/10, It's Your Health Radio, WUML 91.5 FM: Health at Every Size: What does it mean for you?, with host Lisa Davis.

1/13/10, FOX40 tv news: Regina Benjamin, Surgeon General to be: Too fat to be qualified?

1/12/10, The Washington Post: More experts, more advice for the New Year, Jennifer LaRue Huget.

1/03/10, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung: Fett - und sogar stolz darauf (I'm fat and even proud of it) - (in German), Katja Gelinsky.

12/29/09, AOL, That's Fit: Best Health News You Didn't Hear in 2009, Deborah Huso.

12/21/09, Womens' E-News: For the Skinny on Air Brushing, Labels Recommended, Juliette Terzieff.

12/17/09, Chicago Free Press: Are we tipping the scales? Weighing in on the issue of lesbians and obesity, Amy Wooten.

12/15/09, On Hold With Atchka: Health at Every Size: An Interview with Linda Bacon.

12/12/09, K-TIP Radio: Body Talk with Mimi, Mimi Stoneburner.

11/30/09, El Pais newspaper: La hora del 'orgullo gordo'. Las personas obesas de EE UU reclaman que no se les discrimine - Dicen que su persecución es comparable al racismo o la homofobia (in Spanish), David Adelante.

11/16/09, KUOW Seattle 94.9 (NPR - The Conversation with Ross Reynolds): Incentivizing Weight Loss.

11/11/09, The Washington Post: It wouldn't kill you to lose a few pounds - or would it?, Jennifer LaRue Huget.

11/11/09, WVON radio, The Santita Jackson Show: Fat Acceptance: Has the Time Come?

11/8/09, The New York Times: Overweight Americans Push Back on Health Debate, Susan Saulny.

11/5/09, BBC World News Radio: Is Obesity-Cancer Link Fear-Mongering?

10/23/09, T Tyler Talks Radio show: The Truth About Weight Loss.

10/18/09, More Magazine: Health at Every Size, Jennifer Gruden.

10/16/09, iVillage: Not Only Skinny Models Destroy Our Self-Esteem, Plus-Size Models Do Too, Linda Vongkhamchanh.

10/12/09, LA Times: Diets? Not for these folks. Weary of counting calories, some overweight people have a new goal -- to be happy and healthy, not thin, Marni Jameson.

10/12/09, LA Times: Do extra pounds always equal extra risk? Researchers say plenty of fat people are healthy, and plenty of thin people are unhealthy, Marnell Jameson.

10/9/09, Toronto's Globe and Mail: We're having a fat moment, Sarah Boesveld.

9/28/09, Denver Post: More experts say fit and big can happily coexist, Sheba R. Wheeler.

9/09, Diva Magazine: Fit and fat: could the diet dogma be wrong?, Louise Carolin.

8/31/09, MSNBC TV, Dr. Nancy:The War on Fat People, Nancy Snyderman.

8/27/09, Newsweek: Who says Americans are Too Fat, Daniel Heimpel.

8/26/09, Newsweek: America’s War on the Overweight, Kate Dailey and Abby Ellin.

8/19/09, MSN: Fat and fit?!, Hugh Wilson.

8/5/09, The Sydney Morning Herald: Women Fight for Fat Acceptance.

8/3/09, NPR: The "Costs of Obesity: A discussion with Dr. William Dietz (Director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the CDC), Linda Bacon, and others." Follow this link for the follow-up letter that colleagues and I wrote to Dietz.

7/27/09, Contra Costa Times: Big Love: Large Women Celebrate Their Size, Jessica Yadegaran.

7/24/09, UC Davis Newswatch: Why Diets Don't Work, Paul Pfotenhauer.

7/22/09, UC Davis Newswatch: UC Davis Nutritionist Advises: Save Your Money on Diet Books, Paul Pfotenhauer.

7/8/09, The WIP (Women's International Perspective): "Fat Activists" Seek Law Banning Weight Discrimination, Mridu Khullar.

7/7/09, The Washington Post: It Wouldn't Kill You to Lose a Few Pounds. Or Would It?, Jennifer LaRue Huget.

      Here are a few links from earlier times:

11-12/08, Diversity Woman: Size Doesn't Matter, Samme Chittum.

10/5/08, The New York Times Magazine: Losing the Weight Stigma, Robin Marantz Henig.

8/30/07, Med Journal Watch: Interview with Linda Bacon on Weight and Health, Christian Bachmann.

8/27/07, ABC7 News:Overweight People Paying Fat Premiums.

12/4/06, LA Times: Cutting the Obesity Epidemic Down to Size.

9/13/06, East Bay Express: Fat! Fit? Fabulous! Meet the East Bay Activists and Researchers at the Center of the New Civil-Rights Movement Known as Health at Every Size., Lauren Gard.

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