#236: BMI & COVID-19, and Why You Can't Fight Weight Stigma While Promoting Weight Management with Abigail Saguy, Sociologist and Author
Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2020
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Sociology professor and author Abigail Saguy joins us to discuss the effects of weight stigma, racism, poverty, and other systems of oppression on health; why you can’t “fight weight stigma” while promoting weight management; how supposedly sociocultural interventions often end up targeting individuals; coming out as an act of social change; and so much more. Plus, Christy answers a listener question about whether being in the highest BMI category really makes people more likely to get or die from COVID-19.
Abigail Saguy is a UCLA Professor of Sociology and the author of Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are (Oxford, 2020). Find her online at AbigailSaguy.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Food Psych is brought to you by my book, Anti-Diet, |
| 0:04.0 | Reclaim Your Time, Money, Wellbeing, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, |
| 0:08.0 | which is now available wherever books are sold. |
| 0:11.0 | Just go to ChrissyHarrison.com slash book to get it. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to Food Psych, the podcast about intuitive eating, |
| 0:18.0 | Health at every size, body liberation, and taking down diet culture. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm your host, Chrissy Harrison, and I'm an Anti-Diet Registered Dietitian, |
| 0:27.0 | Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, and Author of the Book, Anti-Diet. |
| 0:32.0 | Join me here every week as I talk with fellow anti-diet advocates |
| 0:35.0 | about their journeys toward peace with food and their bodies. |
| 0:39.0 | And by the way, on this show, we bleep out diet culture stuff |
| 0:42.0 | like weight and calorie numbers, but we don't censor swear words or other adult language, |
| 0:47.0 | so listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:57.0 | If you're healthy, if you're healthy, if you're healthy, |
| 1:02.0 | then food you might be healthy. |
| 1:07.0 | Food Psych. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey there, welcome to episode 236 of Food Psych. |
| 1:18.0 | I'm your host, Chrissy Harrison, and today I'm talking with Sociology Professor |
| 1:22.0 | and Author Abigail Sagi about the effects of weight stigma, racism, poverty, |
| 1:27.0 | and other forms of oppression on health. |
| 1:31.0 | Why you can't quote-unquote fight weight stigma while promoting weight management? |
| 1:36.0 | How supposedly sociocultural interventions often just end up targeting individuals? |
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