Robert Wood Johnson Feature

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation discusses Abigail Saguy's work, including What's Wrong with Fat? here.

Why doctors should stop telling their patients to lose weight

In this blog post, I team up with UCLA cardiologist Tamara Horwich to explain why doctors should stop telling their patients to lose weight but just can't bring themselves to do so.

Reason TV

ReasonTV features an interview with me about WWwF.

Nature Review

What's Wrong with Fat? received a very nice review in the "Books in Brief" section of Nature: 

Obesity is an international epidemic. Or is it? Sociologist Abigail C. Saguy weighs in with an investigation of fatness that looks provocative, yet is thoughtful and thorough. By examining heft through many lenses, from the ethical to the scientific, Saguy traces how labelling fat as a disease or as an indicator of immorality seeps into society. She argues that public-health diktats are issued despite scientific debate over the condition; and that factors in fatness, such as poverty, are often ignored. Ultimately, she avers, stigmatizing the condition serves to embed it further. 

New York Times review calls WWwF "illuminating and fascinating"

According to Abigail Zugar, MD, in this New York Times review, "Dr. Saguy analyzes it all, and asks why. She winds up paying particular attention to the debate in the medical world over the actual health consequences of being fat: Studies keep confounding the reigning supposition that thin is best with evidence that modestly overweight may be even better. Meanwhile, those who are larger than average are routinely blamed for their size, a phenomenon augmented by deplorably simplistic media coverage (unlike anorexia, interestingly enough, which is remarkably free of the same connotations of personal fault). "