A Health at Every Size (HAES) approach has been proposed to deal with weight bias and stigma in individuals living with obesity, and more recently articulated as a promising public health approach beyond the prevailing specialise in weight status as a health outcome. the aim of this text is to look at our understanding of HAES within the context of public health approaches to obesity, and to present strengths and limitations of the available evidence. Advancing our understanding of HAES from a public health perspective requires us to maneuver beyond an ideological debate and provides greater attention to the necessity for empirical studies across a variety of populations. Only then can the worth of HAES, as a weight-neutral, public health approach for the prevention of obesity and other chronic diseases, be fully understood.