Issue No. 8: THE FUTURE IS FAT Sources

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Need to Know: Understanding Ozempic and Weight-Loss Drugs

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BM-Why? What Your Body Mass Index Can and Cannot Tell You About Healthy Weight

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Womanly Chats: Writer, Content Creator, and Professor, Cheyenne M. Davis

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Black Queer Being/Knowing/Feeling: Fatphobia, Anti-blackness, and the Health Care System

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