What is fat phobia (and why should you care)?
Fat phobia is the fear and dislike of fat or larger bodies. It’s irrational, unjust, and often expressed in damaging ways. In fact, weight stigma is associated with several negative outcomes for peopl...
18 Tammi 202225min
In Depth with fat positive influencer Katie Parrott
Social media influencer Katie Parrott uses her online presence to normalise our view of larger bodies and to talk about fatphobia, mental health, public health, food, fashion, and anything else that c...
4 Tammi 202218min
In Depth with exceptional sibling Jack Symonds
Jack Symonds never considered himself to be much of a swimmer. In fact, before deciding to swim the English Channel to raise funds for Butterfly, it was probably twelve years since he swam a single la...
20 Joulu 202124min
What does an eating disorder look like to you?
About a million Australians are going into this holiday season - which is often defined by feasting - struggling with an eating disorder. Many of those will be hiding in plain sight.They’ll be struggl...
14 Joulu 202125min
In Depth with men's body image expert Scott Griffiths
Dr Scott Griffiths is one of Australia’s top researchers in body image and eating disorders and a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He’s currently inv...
16 Marras 202118min
Eating disorders and other health conditions
We know that treating an eating disorder can be complicated. But when you’re managing an eating disorder along with a co-occurring medical condition, that can add extra complexity.It’s quite common fo...
2 Marras 202126min
Professor Richard Newton: Let's Talk In Depth
Psychiatrist Richard Newton is an adjunct professor at Monash University, the clinical director of a large mental health service (that also serves as a teaching hospital), and serves on the boards of ...
18 Loka 202122min
What is healthy eating?
We live in a world where we’re constantly marketed cheap, addictive “food” with very little nutritional value, and we’ve all heard about the public health impacts of that.It’s a situation that’s led t...
5 Loka 202127min
