# Virgie Tovar

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At the Intersection of Food and Mental Health

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Stitcher | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora So often, conversations regarding healthy eating go straight to health matters below the neck - things like weight management, heart health, managing cholesterol and diabetes.  But some doctors believe that we should be focu…

GLP-1s: The End—or Evolution—of Body Positivity?

Welcome to another thought-provoking episode of the “Better Than Fine” podcast, hosted by award-winning wellbeing expert Darlene Marshall! This week, we dive deep into the evolving conversation around the body positivity movement in the age of GLP-1 medications—popularly known as weight loss drug…

"GLP-1 Marketing is Scorched Earth": On Culture, Ethics, and Starvation States with Virgie Tovar

There’s a lot of noise right now around GLP-1 medications—conflicting advice, emotional stories, and a cultural shift that feels hard to name. Abbie sits down with Virgie Tovar—author, activist, and leading voice on weight stigma—to slow things down and ask a deeper question: what is actually happe…

Should Kids Be Prescribed Weight Loss Shots?

Two moms say the GLP-1 shot changed their lives—and now they want the same for their kids. Suzie and Deana credit the drug with helping them lose weight after years of failed diets. Now, they're ready for their teens—14-year-old Jeremiah and 16-year-old Demi—to start the same treatment. But should …

Childhood Obesity: A Shot To Thinness?

Dr. Phil meets two mothers, Suzie and Deana, who say they have struggled with obesity until the miracle GLP-1 shot helped them to lose weight. Now they want their teens, 14 year old Jeremiah and 16 year old Demi, to do the same. Should children be on the GLP-1 drug for weight loss? Gynecologist Dr.…

472-Beyond GLP-1 Series: Body Positivity and Activism in the "Ozempic Era" with Virgie Tovar

GLP-1s did not just change medicine. They changed a movement. Virgie Tovar is a weight stigma expert, activist, and journalist who has been watching this unfold from a perspective most voices in this conversation don't have. In this episode, she traces exactly what happened to body positivity and …

🍒 5 Books to Help You Break Up with Diet Culture

It’s “swimsuit season,” and I’m popping in as your resident fat-girl-in-a-bikini to share 5 books to help you break up with diet culture. Tune in as I recommend: You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon The Body is Not an Apo…

47. Summer Sabbatical, Fat Community Events, and Skills for the GLP-1 Era

Dana, Hilary, and Sirius record the last Body Trust Podcast episode before a summer sabbatical. They discuss “hot topics,” including Sports Illustrated’s diverse swimsuit runway and the cultural fixation on “flattering” as code for making bodies look smaller, plus fashion imagery like aprons and re…

Virgie Tovar and The Ozempic Jurassic Park

Darren sits down with a pillar of fat activism, Virgie Tovar, and honestly? She is amazing and fresh, and we loved this interview. Truth bombs and facts and things to sit and think about, abound. They get into what GLP-1s are actually doing to your brain and body, and why Virgie compares the whol…

369: GLP-1s, Weight Stigma, And The New Face Of Diet Culture With Virgie Tovar

Virgie Tovar joins the podcast to examine how GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are reshaping diet culture, from the medicalisation of restriction to the marketing of weight stigma as compassion. We discuss the impact on eating disorder recovery, the psychological cost of weight cycling, and what it takes to…