A Matter of Fat
Podcast

A Matter of Fat

Rose Stokes & Professor Giles Yeo

7 episodes

The show for anyone who's got no idea what they think about weight in 2026 Ozempic, Mounjaro and Wegovy have changed the conversation around weight and bodies faster than any of us has managed to think it all through. The weight-loss drugs, the diets, the shame, the money and the judgement have left most of us with no idea what we think anymore. Is thinner really better? Or healthier? What is the social and emotional cost of a life spent pursuing it? And can't we all just be kinder to each other? Each week, journalist Rose Stokes (https://www.instagram.com/rosestokes/) and Professor Giles Yeo MBE (https://www.instagram.com/gilesyeo/), one of the world's leading obesity scientists based at Cambridge University, take on a different part of the conversation nobody can quite get straight. One of them brings the science, the other brings thirty years of lived experience. Neither pretends to have it figured out — and they don't always agree. Honest conversations about GLP-1 weight-loss drugs and what they actually do to your body, food noise, why diets fail, semaglutide and the science behind it, what Ozempic is doing to body positivity, ultra-processed food, weight stigma, and who can afford to escape judgement and who can't. Plus two regular segments: Fat Check, testing the science of the internet's wildest weight-loss myths, and Diets I've Survived, rating diets so you don't have to. New episodes every Tuesday. Follow now so you don't miss one. Got a question, a thought, or a story of your own? Email us at amatteroffatpod@gmail.com Artwork: sisterstudiouk (https://www.instagram.com/sisterstudiouk/) Editing: offpaperstudios (https://www.instagram.com/offpaperstudios/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

What this show covers

GLP-1obesityGLP-1 drugsappetite sciencefatphobiabody positivitybeauty standardsweight lossfood policyultra-processed foodgeneticspublic healthhealth inequalitycost of livingfood noise

What listeners will find here

Can body acceptance survive the age of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs?
Body positivity meets the reality of modern weight-loss medication in a personal, wide-ranging conversation with Rose Stokes and Dr Giles Yeo. They examine whether wanting to lose weight can coexist with self-acceptance, and how culture, science and stigma shape that tension.
Can Big Food help fix the crisis it helped create?
Ultra-processed food, obesity, and GLP-1 drugs sit at the center of this episode’s big question: can medication help without letting the food industry and policymakers off the hook? Rose Stokes and Dr Giles Yeo mix science, policy, and personal experience to explore what’s driving appetite, weight, and blame.
When health has a price tag: food, time, drugs and who gets left behind
This episode asks whether good health is becoming something only wealthier people can afford. Rose Stokes and Dr Giles Yeo look at the costs of healthy eating, safe places to move, sleep, stress, and GLP-1 medications, and how inequality shapes who gets access to support.
GLP-1s, food noise, and the ads that seem to be everywhere
Food noise, GLP-1 medications, and the constant visibility of weight-loss jab marketing sit at the center of this episode. Rose Stokes and Dr Giles Yeo look at appetite, lived experience, and why legal advertising can still feel impossible to avoid.
Why weight loss so often rebounds, even when a diet seems to work
This episode digs into why diets can produce short-term results yet so often lead to weight regain. Rose Stokes and Dr Giles Yeo combine personal experience and body-weight science to examine restriction, brain biology, and the pressure wrapped around being seen as a “good fat person.”

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