“Help curb the hunger pangs”: news media frames of weight loss during the COVID- 19 lockdown

IF 3.1 3区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Critical Public Health Pub Date : 2022-07-29 DOI:10.1080/09581596.2022.2104155

Ariane Prohaska

引用次数: 1

Abstract

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.

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“帮助遏制饥饿感”：新闻媒体对2019冠状病毒病封锁期间减肥的报道

摘要尽管有研究驳斥了肥胖与健康之间的联系，但新闻媒体一直在宣传减肥是解决“肥胖流行病”的一种方法。在这篇论文中，我研究了2020年封锁期间新闻文章中关于减肥的框架，探讨了在疫情期间，关于减肥的健康主义意识形态是持续存在还是下降。大多数文章都反映了健康主义的观点，鼓励减肥以实现良好的健康和预防新冠肺炎。然而，一些文章拒绝减肥，或者使用了“大小健康”的观点。这项研究对身体监测、新自由主义、公共卫生和媒体报道减肥和新冠肺炎的研究具有启示意义。

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Critical Public Health Multiple-

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5.90

自引率

7.10%

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期刊介绍： Critical Public Health (CPH) is a respected peer-review journal for researchers and practitioners working in public health, health promotion and related fields. It brings together international scholarship to provide critical analyses of theory and practice, reviews of literature and explorations of new ways of working. The journal publishes high quality work that is open and critical in perspective and which reports on current research and debates in the field. CPH encourages an interdisciplinary focus and features innovative analyses. It is committed to exploring and debating issues of equity and social justice; in particular, issues of sexism, racism and other forms of oppression.