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Once we divorce reality weight loss television programs from their "improving health" narratives, we can see their actual purpose is to shrink fat bodies down to a culturally preferred size, no matter the cost.
But the general perception of reality weight loss television as noble also stems from its existence in a society that regularly demonizes fat people, and normalizes the food-shaming heaped on its citizens of varying sizes.
If we're ever going to move away from a place of rampant size discrimination, we need to challenge the one-note portrayals we see on reality weight loss television shows -- or better yet, get them off the air altogether.
When ABC renewed "Extreme Weight Loss" for a fifth season last week, body positivity activists everywhere clenched their fists tight, shook them toward the sky, and bellowed "Why?!?!?" It should come as no surprise that reality weight loss television is extremely destructive.
Although adult weight loss and fitness television programs have become very popular around the world, especially in the US, adolescent weight loss television shows have received little attention.
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That fitness and athleticism are cognate to goodness is a mainstay of weight-loss television and gym culture.
Our culture is incredibly aggressive towards the overweight, whether it's constantly parading (highly questionable) figures about how much they cost the NHS in the press, or the continual stream of Victorian-freak-show-esque weight-loss television shows.
As Nebraska, Colorado and Utah have announced plans to switch conferences — and as others have contemplated following suit — the discussion has centered on wins and losses, television markets and brand image.
When Time Warner Cable reported a huge quarterly loss of television subscribers, the largest in its history, the bad news was attributed largely to an impasse with television network CBS over fees, which led to Time Warner blacking CBS out of millions of homes during the summer of 2013.
Leigh was a loss to television, but he was also a gain for cinema.
On October 31, 2013, Time Warner Cable reported a huge quarterly loss of television subscribers, the largest in its history: 306,000 of its 11.7 million subscribers had dropped the company.
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