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An obesity group determined to destigmatize obesity on behalf of Big Pharma is akin to Big Tobacco funding projects to destigmatize smoking.The world’s top pharmaceutical companies raking record profits from the latest generation of obesity drugs are bankrolling a group behind the contemporary phenomenon of “health at every size.”A new report and database published by Baron Public Affairs last month outlines pharmaceutical sponsorships for trade organizations promoting obesity as a chronic disease warranting health care coverage rather than a preventable symptom of underlying metabolic dysfunction. One such group with funding from major drug manufacturers Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, and Boehringer...

Spain's equality ministry has launched a summer campaign to encourage women worried about how their body looks to go to the beach. "Summer is ours too," runs the slogan above an image of five diverse women of different shapes and sizes. "All bodies are beach bodies," said Social Services Minister Ione Belarra. Women's Institute head Antonia Morillas said physical expectations affected not only women's self-esteem, but denied them their rights. The campaign illustration of five women relaxing on the beach also features a topless woman after a mastectomy.