TELEVISION/National

• Good Morning America, Interview on Big Fat Lies, September 2, 1996
• Home & Family, Interview on Big Fat Lies , September 16, 1996
• NBC Nightly News, Interview on Big Fat Lies , January 6, 1997
• 20/20, ABC News Magazine Show, “Fat and Fit,” January 24, 1997
• CNN, Health Reports and Headline News, Interview on Big Fat Lies , February 17, 1997
• Leeza, “What’s so bad about being fat?” July 22, 1997
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Interview regarding New England Journal of Medicine editorial on “Losing Weight: An Ill-fated New Year’s Resolution (Jan. 1, 1998), December 31, 1997
• The McCuiston Program, KDTN (Dallas) - PBS, “Overweight and Out of Shape: Americans at the Start of the 21st Century,” March 29, 1998
• Dateline, NBC, “Fit or Fat?” February 16, 1999
• ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Interview for Conventional Wisdom, Body weight, weight loss and health, August 16, 1999

TELEVISION/International

• GLOBO TV (Brasil), Story on body weight and health, April 23, 1997
• ZBF-TV 7 (Bermuda), Story of body weight and health, October 14, 1998

TELEVISION/Regional

• Channel 29 News, NBC (Charlottesville, VA), Part 1, October 10, 1996
• Channel 29 News, NBC (Charlottesville, VA), Part 2, October 11, 1996
• Channel 6 News, CBS (Richmond, VA), October 18, 1996
• Channel 6 News, CBS (Richmond, VA), November 11, 1996
• Channel 7 News, CBS, (Roanoke, VA), November 1, 1996
• AM Northwest (Morning talk show), ABC, (Portland, OR), February 27, 1997
• Channel 29 News, NBC (Charlottesville, VA), January 5, 1998
• NBC Affiliate, Lexington, KY, January 7, 1998
• Channel 10 News, Roanoke, VA, February 23, 1998
• News 25 (WEHT, ABC), Evansville, IN, February 25, 1998
• Fox 7 News (WTVW), Evansville, IN, February 25, 1998

RADIO

Canada

National: CHFI September 18, 1996
CFRB October 20, 1996
CHFI September 16, 1997
CBC IDEAS, “The Fat Wars” December 1, 1997

Ontario: CHAY September 23, 1996
CFPL September 23, 1996

Alberta: CISN September 23, 1996
CHED September 23, 1996

British Columbia: CKNW October 8, 1996; August 17, 1999

Bermuda

ZBF/ZBM October 14, 1998

United Kingdom

Adventist World Radio UK September 1999

United States

Hayward, WI WOJB October 2, 1996
Gettysburg, PA WGET "Morning Show" October 16, 1996
Champaign, IL WDWS "Afternoons w/ Mark October 17, 1996
Heinburger
Stockton, CA KWIN "Buzz on the Streets" October 24, 1996
Napa, CA KVON "Plugged In" October 30, 1996
Brockton, MA WMSX "Mindy Jackson Show" November 26, 1996

State of Virginia: "With Good Reason" January 10-15, 1997
(The Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium; 1.3 million listeners). Member stations: WAMU/Washington, WCVE/Richmond, WCWM/Williamsburg, WETS/Johnson City, WHRV/Hampton Roads, WMRA/Harrisonburg--Charlottesville--Lexington--Winchester, WNSB/Norfolk, WVRU/Radford, WVST/Petersburg, WVTF/Roanoke--Charlottesville--Marion, WYCS/Yorktown

Kansas City, MO KMBZ “Friendly Fire” January 22, 1997
Stamford, CT WLNK “Afternoon Report” January 30, 1997
Phoenix, AZ WFYI “Wake Up in Arizona” January 31, 1997
Dallas, TX USA Radio Net January 31, 1997
Lexington, KY WLVK “Front Page” January 31, 1997
Rockford, IL WNTA “Morning Show” February 3, 1997
Arlington, TX KRLD “Afternoon News” February 5, 1997
Bridgeport, CT WICC “Coffee Break Chat” February 21, 1997
Bismark, ND KFYR “What’s on Your Mind” February 21, 1997
Tulsa, OK KHTT “Morning Show” February 25, 1997
Ellensburg, WA KXLE “Rodeo City Roundtable February 25, 1997
Eugene, OR KUGN February 26, 1997
Corvallis, OR KLOO February 28, 1997
Austin, TX KIXO “Keith Carpenter Show” March 7, 1997
Charlotte, NC WWSN “Bob and Sheri Show” March 10, 1997
Radio Fit America May 9, 1997
West Bloomfield, MI “The Warren Pierce Show” June 2, 1997
“The Warren Pierce Show” November 10, 1997
“The Warren Pierce Show” February 11, 1999
Monitor (Public) Radio Kathleen McKenna June 9, 1997
Charlottesville, VA WINA September, 26, 1997
Sacramento, CA KSTE Wide World of Health November 16, 1997
Northridge, CA KCSN January 13, 1998
Bloomington, IN WGCL February 18, 1998
Evansville, IN WIKY February 25, 1998
South Florida, FL WJNO (CBS) Jack Cole June 23, 1998
Here’s to Your Health (National) Deborah Ray February 22, 1999
Hartford, CT WWYZ April 7, 1999
Virginia, MN WUSZ Morning Show September 10, 1999
Las Vegas, NV Hot Talk 105.1 September 13, 1999
Pittsburgh, PA KDKA John Sigma September 16, 1999
St. Cloud, MN WJON Kelli Gore September 20, 1999

NEWSPAPERS

• Washington Post, Health, July 16, 1996. "Fitness Level More Important Than Weight, Researcher Says," by Carol Krucoff.
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 5, 1996. "Conventional body weight idea questioned," by Beverly Orndorff (Science)
• Cville Weekly, September 3-9, 1996. "Stop the Insanity."
• Inside UVA, September 13, 1996. "Health & Fitness Expert Glenn Gaesser Debunks 'Big Fat Lies' About Being Thin," by Kathleen Valenzi.
• New York Daily News, Thersday, September 12, 1996. "Are You a Fool About Fat?" Q&A by Ruth Bashinski in conversation with Glenn A. Gaesser.
• The Columbus Dispatch, September 13, 1996. "Doc says it's not the weight," by Julie Osborne.
• Feminist Bookstore News, October 1996.
• Toronto Globe & Mail, October 16, 1996.
• Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA), November 3, 1996. "Fitness can come in any size," by David. A. Maurer.
• San Jose Mercury News, November 6, 1996. "The new fat stats," by Kathleen Donnelly.
• San Jose Mercury News, November 6, 1996. "Weighty numbers: doing the math on body mass," by Kathleen Donnelly.
• Investor's Business Daily, November 5, 1996. "Not Overweight But Fat--Is That Possible?/Beyond the Bathroom Scale," by Kathleen Doheny.
• Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, December 14, 1996. “Thin is better? That’s a fat lie, prof says,” by Pat Dooley.
• Star-Ledger (Newark), February 17, 1997. “Fatness: The arguments,” by Kitta MacPherson and Edward R. Silverman.
• The Boston Globe, February 17, 1997. “Is getting fitter just as good as getting thinner?” by Barbara Huebner.
• The Providence Journal-Bulletin, February 27, 1997. “Fighting to be fit: Why you don’t have to be skinny to be in great shape,” by Ellen Liberman.
• The Indianapolis Star, March 2, 1997. “Don’t Diet,” by Patricia Hagen.
• Daily News (Los Angeles), March 10, 1997. “Heft and health: new awareness,” by Heesun Wee.
• Miami Herald, June 19, 1997. “Health hype pressures people into ups and downs of weight loss,” by Caroline San Juan.
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 29, 1997. “To them, respect should be 1 size fits all,” by Douglass A. Campbell.
• Washington Post, Health, August 12, 1997. “Experts Challenge Assertion That Thinner is Always Better,” by Carol Krucoff.
• The Times (Contra Costa County, CA), August 26, 1997. “Fitness that Fits,” by Julie Sevrens.
• Wall Street Journal, September 16, 1997. “Dieting Dilemma: Withdrawal of Redux Spotlights Predicament FDA Faces on Obesity,” by Laura Johannes and Steve Stecklow.
• C’ville Weekly, Sept. 23-29, 1997. “He told you so--but he won’t say so!” by Jenny Mead.
• San Francisco Examiner, Oct. 12, 1997. “Fat--and that’s that,” by Elizabeth Fernandez.
• The Billings Gazette, Health & Fitness, December 29, 1997. “The healthy focus,” by Susan Olp.
• The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA), January 3, 1998. “Lifestyle may outweigh dieting,” by Daniel M. Nonte.
• Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, January 3, 1998. “Two teachers say we can’t diet our way to good health,” by Guy Friddell.
• Chronicle (Houston, TX), February 8, 1998. “American’s poor health practices are leading to flabby nation,” by Anne Burke (Los Angeles Daily News--story ran initially on November 15 or 16, 1997).
• Evansville Press, February 24, 1998. “Expert says focus is shifting from dieting to exercise,” by Polly Bigham.
• The Orlando Sentinel, June 16, 1998. “Cutting through the fat,” by Harry Wessel.
• The New York Times, June 23 , 1998. “New Fatness Guidelines Spur Debate on Fitness,” by Linda Villarosa.
• The Boston Globe, July 13, 1998. “Stretching your fitness routine,” by Judy Foreman.
• The Washington Times, July 14, 1998. “Columnist’s fat fight resonates with readers,” by Valerie Richardson.
• Bermuda Sun, October 14, 1998. “You can be fat and healthy,” by Sandra Dillich.
• The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, CA), September 29, 1998. “Now, let’s be flexible,” by Donna Kennedy.
• Philadelphia Daily News, January 4, 1999. “Fit AND Fat,” by Jenice M. Armstrong.
• New York Times, April 6, 1999. “Fitness: 4 Minutes and $600 Later,” by Liz Neporent.
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, August 5, 1999. Plus-Size Performance (Cover Story), by Michelle Hiskey.
• New York Times (Science times), August 17, 1999. “Studies Question Weight Loss-Longevity Link.” (from the Associated Press)
• New York times, September 6, 1999. “Employers Focus on Weight As Workplace Health Issue,” by Milt Freudenheim.

NEWS SERVICES

• Associated Press/Interview with Bill Baskervill, re Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health

Virginia release October 21, 1996
National release October 27, 1996

• Associated Press/ Ira Dreyfuss, re “Control Beats Weight Reduction” (re: “Thinness and Weight Loss: Beneficial or Detrimental to Longevity?” by G.A. Gaesser, in August 1999 issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise)

National release August 15, 1999

• Knight-Ridder/ Interview with Lisa Lytle, Orange County Register

Orange County Register, September 4, 1996. "Fat or Fiction?"
Denver Post, September 16, 1996. "Body fat: a fallacy of fitness."
Contra Costa County Times (CA), October 1, 1996. "The Big Fat Truth. How much you have isn't as important as where it is."
Seattle Times, October 2, 1996. "The skinny on body fat. Many experts say it's overemphasized as a yardstick for fitness.
Des Moines Register, October 14, 1996. "Body fat: Too much fuss? Worry more about the fat in your diet than the fat in your body, an expert advises."
Orlando Sentinel, October 15, 1996. "Experts say body fat test is overemphasized for fitness."
Wisconsin State Journal, October 24, 1996. "How low-FAT are you? And does it really matter?"
Richmond Times-Dispatch, November 10, 1996. "Body fat overemphasized as fitness yardstick, experts say."

• Chicago Tribune Media Services (Daily): Q&A with Glenn Gaesser (September 1996)
• Chicago Tribune Media Services (Weekly): "Keeping Fit" column (September 1996)

MAGAZINES/JOURNALS/ON LINE SERVICES

• Advance for Physical Therapists, July 29, 1996. "Fat and Fit," by Bernard J. Colan.
• Runner's World, September 1996. "The Truth about Fat Burning," by Adam Bean.
• John Naisbitt's Trend Letter, August 15, 1996. "Fit and fat?
• UVA Alumni News, Fall 1996, Bookends section.
• Melpomene. A Journal for Women's Health Research, Autumn 1996. Review of Big Fat Lies, by Lael Berman.
• The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 4, 1996. "Professor Raises Hackles With Argument That Obesity Is Not a Health Problem," by Kim A. Macdonald.
• Radiance, Fall 1996. Review of Big Fat Lies, by William Fabrey
• Self, October 1996. "Can fat be fit?" by Carol Krucoff.
• Big Beautiful Woman, Winter 1996. Review of Big Fat Lies, by Cheri Erdman (author of Nothing to Lose: A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body).
• Big Beautiful Woman, Winter 1996. "Appetite Suppressant Drugs--Still the Snake Oil in Our Grass," by Zee Starns.
• Health, January/February 1997. “A new way to think about thighs,” by Suzanne Schlossberg.
• Shape, January 1997. Q & A on weight loss, with Suzanne Schlossberg.
• Walking, April 1997. “What your shape doesn’t say about you,” by Michael Castleman.
• Living Fit, April 1997. “The science of fat,” by Dianne Lang.
• Newsweek, April 21, 1997. [COVER STORY: “Does It Matter What You Weigh? The Surprising New Facts About Fat.”] “Is Fat That Bad?” by Laura Shapiro.
• Woman’s World, August 5, 1997. “The three most important Keys to good health,” by Brenda Kearns.
• Forbes, August 11, 1997. “Meat’s neat,” by Alexandra Alger.
• Shape, September 1997. “Thighs and Size,” (Weight-loss Q&A Special) by Suzanne Schlosberg.
• Fitness Management Magazine, October 1997. “Getting the Overweight on Board,” by Cindy Maynard.
• The Ample Shopper. Issue #12, 1997. Review of Big Fat Lies, by Miriam Berg.
• Seventeen, January 1998. “The skinny on fat,” by Gayle Foreman.
• U.S. News &World Report, January 12, 1998. [COVER STORY: “The New Truth About Fat.”] “The Joy of FAT,” by Nancy Shute.
• Diabetes UK (Online Website/www.diabetes.org.uk), February 11,1998. “Diabetes UK: Just a little exercise is terrific for your health.”
• Woman’s Day, April 21, 1998. “Living Large,” by Jeanie Wilson.
• Science News, May 2, 1998. “The Fat Fracas: Researchers weigh in on body size,” by Kathleen Fackelmann.
• Asbury Park Press, May 17, 1998. “Fitting In: Obesity in a Thin World,” by Regina McHenry.
• Science, May 29, 1998. “Obesity: How Big a Problem?” by Ingrid Wickelgren.
• Women’s Connection Online, June 17, 1998. “Exercise: The Latest Prescription,” by Laurie Jones.
• Women’s Sports & Fitness, September/October 1998. “Who’s Fat Now?” Editorial.
• Jump Magazine, October/November 1998. “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” by Aminata Carter and Elizabeth Sosa.
• Prevention, October 1998. “Defy age with 2 easy moves,” by Michele Stanten with Sherry Kiser.
• Hippocrates (Health & Medicine for Physicians), October 1998. [COVER STORY: “Obesity Control”], by David Sharp.
• Runner’s World, January 1999. “Are You Overweight?” by Marlene Cimons.
• Woman’s Day, March 9, 1999. “Can you be Fat and Fit?” by Laura Bruno.
• McCall’s, July 1999. “Can You be Heavy and Healthy?” by David Sharp.
• Health, July/August 1999. “The Truth About Exercise & Weight,” by David Sharp.
• HealthScout.com, August 17, 1999. “Fat and Healthy. It’s how active you are, not how much you weigh,” by Neil Sherman.
• Walking Magazine, March 2000. “Throw out the Scale: You may be fitter than you think,” by Sophia Schweitzer.
• Walking Magazine, August 2001. “Can You Be Heavy and Healthy?” by Sue Hertz