Fat Health Myths with Ragen Chastain – Recording Available
I am SO FREAKING EXCITED to have one of my personal heroes as our June guest speaker in the Body Liberation Blanket Fort!
On June 26, Ragen Chastain will be joining us for a webinar created just for us — Fat Health Myths. She’ll be sharing some of the myths about fatness and health that most stress fat folks out, and explaining what’s based on evidence and what’s just plain diet culture.
(And yes, an area I’ve specifically asked Ragen to cover is Ozempic and other medications being used for weight loss.)
A recording of this talk is now available in the Blanket Fort.
More about Ragen:
Ragen Chastain is a speaker, writer, researcher, Board Certified Patient Advocate, multi-certified health and fitness professional, and thought leader in weight science, weight stigma, health, and healthcare.
Utilizing her background in research methods and statistics, Ragen has brought her signature mix of humor and hard facts to healthcare, corporate, conference, and college audiences from Kaiser Permanente and the Nationwide Children’s Hospital, to Amazon and Google, to Dartmouth, Cal Tech and the Yale School of Medicine.
Author of the Weight and Healthcare newsletter, the book Fat: The Owner’s Manual, co-author of HAES Health Sheets, and editor of the anthology The Politics of Size, Ragen is frequently featured as an expert in print, radio, television, and documentary film. In her free time, Ragen is a national dance champion, triathlete, and marathoner who holds the Guinness World Record for Heaviest Woman to Complete a Marathon.
She lives in Oregon with her fiancée Julianne and a rotating cast of foster dogs.
More about the Blanket Fort:
The Body Liberation Blanket Fort is my diet-talk-free, fat-centered and thriving community for people of all sizes. We do 24/7 text chat as well as regular events like movie nights and hangouts.
Blanket Fort membership is managed through Pay tree on. Once you join, you’ll get instructions for accessing the Fort community on Discord as well as all the other supporter rewards, including my Body Liberation Library.
Sliding-scale membership starts at just $1/month. All proceeds go towards a living wage for me and the others who maintain and moderate the community. It’s cool to support fat activism!
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