By Dr. Ian Patton, Director of Advocacy and Public Engagement for Obesity Canada In January of 2021 Obesity Canada was approached by our colleagues at Obesity Action Coalition who asked if I would be open to help with a project related [...]
March 4 is World Obesity Day. For the past few years, all of the major global obesity organizations including World Obesity Federation, European Association for the Study of Obesity, The Obesity Society, Global Obesity Patient Alliance, Obesity Action Coalition, Obesity Canada [...]
Blog post written by Ximena Ramos Salas, PhD. During the COVID-19 lockdown, we have observed an increase in weight biased memes and fat jokes as well as a lot of posts about individuals feeling worried or anxious about gaining weight during [...]
Today's blog post comes from Marcus Moore. Marcus is the Resource Coordinator of the Students and New Professionals National Executive and a law student at Western University. You can read his full bio on our SNP National Executive page. In the [...]
Dear Parents, Fat. Chubby. Overweight. Too big. How do you feel when you read those words? We know that many parents worry about their children’s weight. Our parents did. You see, we grew up in larger bodies. But sometimes, we felt [...]
Image: weareteachers.com Today's post comes from Keshinee Moonian, BSc (Honors) Student in Computing Science. Children and youth in larger bodies sometimes face difficult, uncomfortable, or embarrassing situations simply because of their weight. While we might think – or at least we would [...]
Today's post comes from Melissa Bernaldez, BSc Student in Human Ecology. Our personal health is exactly that—something personal. We need to be able to trust our healthcare providers in order to manage our health effectively. For many people, in a bigger [...]
Over the last few months, we have been building our online community (OC Connect), and this has reaffirmed a few things for me: The bias and stigma that people living with obesity face is pervasive and heartbreaking. The disease of obesity [...]
Click here to download the PDF document. The following paper has been prepared by Obesity Canada’s EveryBODY Matters Collaborative: Ximena Ramos Salas, PhD; Sara Kirk, PhD; Angela Alberga, PhD; Mary Forhan, OT/PhD; Shelly Russell-Mayhew, PhD; Erin Cameron, PhD; Sarah Nutter, [...]
by Melody Harding A few months ago I was able to share with the Obesity Canada community (via this newsletter) that I had successfully settled my Human Rights Complaint with Nova Scotia’s Department of Health and Wellness. After 13 years of trying [...]
