Unpacking Weight Science
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ep 18: 'Obesity': Unpacking 'risk' vs 'disease'
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into the definition(s) of 'disease' and 'risk factor' and how body size has come to be understood by various 'body size stakeholde...
Ep 17 Dieting, Illness and Malnutrition at Every Size
02 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Malnutrition is a condition that has both short-term and long lasting consequences. In this episode I unpack the science of malnutrition, it’s signs...
Ep 16 Dietary Quality: Measurement, Magnitude and Meaning
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In recent years nutrition research has moved from a focus on nutrients to a focus on foods and eating patterns. Dietary quality broadly refers to the ...
Ep 15: When is a diet not a diet? Size Inclusivity and Medical Nutrition Therapy
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dietitians and nutrition professionals can feel like the ‘nutrition baby’ is being thrown out with the ‘diet bathwater’ when learning about si...
Ep 14 Measuring Intuitive Eating: Why, How and When
01 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode covers the development of the Intuitive Eating Scale, and it’s follow-up, the Intuitive Eating Scale 2 (IES2). I talk about the diffe...
Ep 13 Size Inclusivity and Diffusion of Innovations Theory
15 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of my favourite theories of social science is the Diffusion of Innovations theory. It so beautifully explains how new ideas spread through social ...
Ep 12 ”What the 5%!?” Type 2 diabetes and weight loss recommendations
01 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continually hear this magical 5% weight loss goal for people with type 2 diabetes, that losing 5% of your body weight is going to result in protect...
Ep 11 Unboxing Wellness Marketing: The Science of Persuasion
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode I take you through some components of the science of human persuasion with ‘unboxing wellness marketing’. As my following on Instag...
Ep 10 The Non-Diet Approach Model
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I take you through the clinical model that I developed during my PhD research. This model is a weight-neutral, size inclusive, body a...
Ep 9 Morality Vs Ethics: Why Fat is Fraught
07 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode delves into theories of human morality and medical ethics and their role in fat-phobia. I unpick the concepts and meaning of fatness thr...
Ep 8 Theoretical vs Actual Weight Change: Industrialised Wishful Thinking
01 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I compare and contrast what our mathematical formulas about energy requirements and weight loss say should be possible (ie the theoret...
Ep 7 Weight-Neutral, Health-Enhancing Habits
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Those benefits promised by those who recommend weight loss? *whispers* they're not actually because of the weight loss..... This episode of Unpacking ...
Ep 6 The Science of Self Compassion
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I take you through the research and academic operationalisation of self compassion, some of its associations and effects on individual...
Article reading: 'What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology'
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This article is a really important discussion of the issues around how we refer to different body types. Because not everyone has the time, oppo...
Ep 5 Anatomy of a weight loss paper
25 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A research paper is a piece of persuasive writing. This episode breaks down how all the pieces fit together, the expected rhetoric of weight loss re...
Ep 4 Weight Bias, Stigma and Discrimination
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is an introduction and defines the terms, discusses their impact on healthcare, society and the lives of the people who are impacted by ...
Ep 3 How we got here: BMI meets death
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A history of the development of the BMI (including how 'obesity' ended up on child growth charts), how we discovered there was a relationship with wei...
Ep 2 Demystifying Assumptions, De-myth-defying Assumptions
18 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode discusses the two main myths that perpetuate weight loss encouragement as well as the terms, weight centric, weight neutral, lifestyle in...
Ep 1 Stuck in a Weight-Centric Operating System - by Unpacking Weight Science
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why is it that everyone seems to be pushing a weight-centric agenda? Weight centrism is a cultural norm, medical behemoth, and capitalist bonanza. Thi...