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"Help curb the hunger pangs": news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown.
- Source :
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Critical Public Health . Jun2023, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p332-342. 11p. 1 Chart. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The news media has consistently promoted weight loss as a solution to the "obesity epidemic", despite research refuting the connection between fatness and health. In this paper, I examine the framing of weight loss in news articles during lockdown months of 2020, addressing whether healthist ideologies about weight loss persisted or declined during the pandemic. Most articles reflected a healthism lens, encouraging weight loss to achieve good health and to prevent COVID-19. However, some articles rejected weight loss or utilized a Health at Every Size perspective. This study has implications for research on body surveillance, neoliberalism, public health, and media reporting about weight loss and COVID-19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *PREVENTION of obesity
*OBESITY
*WELL-being
*PERSONAL beauty
*PRESS
*MASS media
*HUNGER
*HEALTH status indicators
*DIET
*PUBLIC health
*QUALITATIVE research
*ATTITUDES toward illness
*WEIGHT loss
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*STAY-at-home orders
*ATTITUDES toward obesity
*CONTENT analysis
*DATA analysis
*EMOTIONS
*THEMATIC analysis
*COVID-19 pandemic
*WORLD Wide Web
*BLOGS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09581596
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Critical Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 163695323
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2022.2104155