#357 - Can obesity be healthy? with Emma Storey-Gordon
The Free Man
Ben Coomber
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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By objectively delving into the topic with as little bias as possible, it very quickly looks a lot more nuanced and fascinating than most probably realise...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to Ben Kumba Radio episode number |
| 0:03.7 | 357 yeah 357 so Ben is away on his honeymoon having a fantastic time in Croatia soaking up all of the sun and I am sat here in the |
| 0:16.7 | northeast so that means that you get to listen to me on the podcast fortunately however I'm not by myself so today I have the pleasure of reintroducing Emma Story Gordon. |
| 0:27.0 | So Emma Story Gordon, or ESG, as she's probably better known, is a fitness professional that I've been following online for quite a few years. |
| 0:35.0 | Emma, your social media present, shall we say, has taken on absolute leaps and bounds in the last few years and I think you put out some of the best content going |
| 0:45.2 | So for those of you who don't follow Emma Story Gordon on Instagram and Facebook |
| 0:50.4 | Definitely do so she's definitely worth of follow. So today what I wanted to talk to you about |
| 0:55.2 | Emma was a post that you did a little while ago on metabolicly healthy obesity and fat |
| 1:00.7 | acceptance, healthy at any size and all of these general concepts because I think it's a topic |
| 1:06.1 | that's going to become more and more prevalent and more and more important in the next few |
| 1:10.1 | years and to be honest I think that the fitness industry talks about it |
| 1:15.3 | potentially in the wrong way so I think this could be a really cool discussion I'm |
| 1:19.0 | really looking forward to what your thoughts are but unfortunately I couldn't actually find the post so if you could just |
| 1:25.3 | remind me what it was that the post was about and sort of what it was that you said we |
| 1:30.3 | should be able to use that as like a springboard and have a really cool chat. |
| 1:33.7 | So Emma, over to you. |
| 1:35.4 | Okay, yeah, so the post was quite interesting because a new study came out that I guess |
| 1:42.2 | kind of in some ways went against the grain of what most research says. |
| 1:47.5 | So there is this notion that you can be fat that fit, but most of the big sort of epidemiological studies have shown that that's really not the case and that BMI is very highly correlated to your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and just generally your risk of |
| 2:05.0 | diet to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and just generally your risk of dying. |
| 2:06.0 | So, you know, it's quite hard to say you can be fat but fit |
| 2:11.0 | and most of the research shows that if you lose weight and your overweight |
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