The Fat Acceptance Movement

While health professionals and the media focus on the obesity epidemic and diet fads, some overweight women are making peace with their bodies. They are blogging about fat acceptance and “health at any size” on sites like Shapely Prose, Big Fat Deal, The Rotund, and fatshionista. This hour, a look at the fat acceptance movement with HARRIET BROWN, an assistant professor of magazine journalism at Syracuse University and REBECCA PUHL director of research for the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Listen to the mp3