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Have the new weight-loss drugs changed what it means to be body positive?

Have the new weight-loss drugs changed what it means to be body positive?

FromConsider This from NPR


Have the new weight-loss drugs changed what it means to be body positive?

FromConsider This from NPR

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Length:
11 minutes
Released:
May 13, 2024
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Podcast episode

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America is a land of contradictions; while we're known as a nation that loves to eat, we also live within a culture that has long valued thinness as the utmost beauty standard.Over the last several years the body positivity movement has pushed back on that notion. But then came a new class of weight-loss drugs.New York Magazine contributing writer Samhita Mukhopadhyay grapples with the possible future of a movement like this in her recent article, So Was Body Positivity All A Big Lie?She joins All Things Considered host Juana Summers to discuss the ever-evolving conversation on health, size, and whose business that is in the first place.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Released:
May 13, 2024
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