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Welcome to Snacky Bits and your February roundup of nutrition in the news. Thanks to the Discord fam who shared some of these links. (And if you’re not in the Discord yet, come join us here).
CW: pathologising of body weight and use of the O word for most of these.
It’s not unsurprising to me that when one half of a couple begins to lose weight, that can influence the dynamics of the relationship. I’ve seen this play out with my clients who have committed to anti-diet/fat lib while their partners pursue IWL. It can feel destabilising; or like a betrayal. It also feels unsurprising that when you start to mess with the circuitry around appetite, that can impact desire and libido; the systems that regulate hunger are intimately linked with the systems that control sexual behaviour.
Wow there’s so much to unpack in here I don’t even know where to start. The fact that these doctors are glorifying disordered eating? The fact that some of them are consulting for these drug manufacturers and then being in the national press without clear COI statements? Or is it the fact they say the drugs ‘stop working’ when they reach their target weight? Yikes.
