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J. Greer  \nTo cite this article: Michael L. J. Greer (23 Feb 2026): Food unease: How Ozempic era master narratives burden fat people, Fat Studies, DOI: 10.1080/21604851.2026.2629080  \nTo link to this article: [https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2026.2629080](https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2026.2629080)  \n Published online: 23 Feb 2026.  \n\n|  Submit your article to this journal  |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| | Article views: 32 |\n| | View related articles  |\n|  View Crossmark data |  |\n\nFull Terms & Conditions of access and use can be found at [https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ufts20](https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=ufts20)  \nFAT STUDIES  \n[https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2026.2629080](https://doi.org/10.1080/21604851.2026.2629080)  \nFood unease: How Ozempic era master narratives burden fat people  \nMichael L. J. Greer  \nPhilosophy, CUNY-The Graduate Center, New York  \nABSTRACT  \nThis article develops the twin concepts of food ease/unease by examining the effect of Ozempic era cultural narratives on fat peoples’ relationship with food. Accordingly, I make three contributions to the literature on GLP-1RAs. First, I characterize four master narratives relating to food that stem from Ozempic era discourses. Master narratives were first theorized by Hilde Lindemann Nelson (2001): they are cultural stories through which people construct their narrative selves. I identify four relevant master narratives: the miracle narrative, the ending narrative, the simplicity narrative, and the food noise narrative. Second, I argue that these food narratives burden fat people with what I term food unease. Food unease makes the subjective experience of hunger and eating difficult, undesired, or interfere with life in an unpleasant or obtrusive way. Narratives that pathologize (fat) hunger and (fat) eating burden fat people insofar as fat people use them to make sense of their relationship with food. My third contribution is to show that the twin concepts of food ease/unease are more useful for thinking about GLP-1RAs’effect on peoples’ relationship with food than the concept of food noise. By examining the impact of Ozempic era master narratives on fat people’s relationship with food, I provide more reason to be circumspect about the popularity of these drugs. At the same time, I offer new concepts that can be used to construct counter narratives against oppressive cultural stories.  \nKEYWORDS  \nfood noise; Ozempic; diet culture; bioethics; food ease; narrative hermeneutics  \nIntroduction  \nI am a millennial able-bodied small fat white woman who has often experienced anti-fatness as an imperative to make myself smaller through restricting food intake. My relationship with food suffered until I learned about fat positivity, anti-diet culture, intuitive eating, and Health at Every Size. 1 I now have an appreciation for food that goes far beyond calories and food as “fuel”: food is saturated with social and political meaning, as well as affects like pleasure, disgust, and comfort. How frequently we eat, how much we eat, what kinds of food we eat, where we eat, and how we judge bodies given what they eat, are socially and politically mediated. Refraining from or consciously pursuing certain food can signify class, race, gender, moral identity, religious identity, cultural identity, and more (Lebesco and Naccarato 2008) .  \nGiven this personal trajectory, I have become protective over the important place food holds in fat people’s lives, which motivates my concern with cultural narratives around Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists (GLP-1RAs), a cla","cbCaikJNsLgtQHgL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikJNsLgtQHgL","pdf",848074,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Personal trajectory and anti-fatness\n## GLP-1RAs, Ozempic era narratives, and appetite mechanisms\n# Master narratives and food unease (proposed framework)","[{\"question\":\"What are the two central concepts introduced in the article?\",\"answer\":\"The article develops the twin concepts of food ease and food unease, using them to explain how cultural narratives affect fat people’s relationship with food.\"},{\"question\":\"Which four master narratives relating to food does the article identify?\",\"answer\":\"It identifies the miracle narrative, the ending narrative, the simplicity narrative, and the food noise narrative as four relevant Ozempic-era food master narratives.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article explain “food unease” and its impact?\",\"answer\":\"Food unease makes hunger and eating difficult, undesired, or interfering with life in unpleasant or obtrusive ways, especially when narratives pathologize (fat) hunger and (fat) eating and fat people use them to make sense of their food relationship.\"}]","Food unease - How Ozempic era master narratives burden fat people | PDF",1790803112,43]