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Are Weight Loss Drugs Changing Body Positivity?
33 mins·16:00, 30 Mar 2026
Are Weight Loss Drugs Changing Body Positivity?
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16:00, 30 Mar 2026
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Guest: Professor Dr Viren Swami, Social Psychologist, Anglia Ruskin University
Thin is back in vogue, but this time not due to diet culture but a quick fix from a drug. With GLP-1 drugs - or what some might colloquially refer to as weight loss drugs - booming in popularity, how are these drugs and the bodies of celebrities who are on it changing our body image ideals? Is the body positivity movement losing hard-earned ground? We speak to social psychologist Prof Dr Viren Swami from Anglia Ruskin University to share what he’s observed from years of studying body image.
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Presenter: Lim Sue Ann
Producer: Lim Sue Ann
weight loss medicationdiet cultureidealsGLP-1 Drugsthe bigger picturehealth & livingbody imagebody positivitystandards
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