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Oprah reflects on diet-culture role and discusses GLP-1s in Enough
Summary
Oprah Winfrey's new book Enough, coauthored with Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff, says she played a part in diet-culture shame and describes using GLP-1 medications to manage weight.
Content
Oprah Winfrey's new book Enough, coauthored with endocrinologist Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff, discusses her long public struggle with weight and the cultural pressures around dieting. The book frames obesity as a chronic, relapsing disease rather than a moral failing and notes Jastreboff's research on obesity and weight-loss drugs. Winfrey acknowledges she contributed to diet-culture messages during her career. She also describes choosing to use GLP-1 medications and how they affected her experience.
Key points:
- Enough is a collaboration between Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Ania M. Jastreboff, who is an endocrinologist and professor at Yale School of Medicine.
- Winfrey writes that recognizing obesity as a chronic disease changed her perspective and that she had participated in diet-culture messaging for years.
- The book recounts public moments tied to her weight and calls those experiences sources of shame.
- Winfrey reports using GLP-1 medications, saying they helped quiet what the book calls “food noise,” and she asks for an end to shaming others' choices.
Summary:
The book reframes obesity as a medical condition and combines Winfrey's personal history with context from a medical expert. Undetermined at this time.
