Fat Camps

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

History, Science, Health, Health & Fitness, Wellness, Education

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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How America's oldest fat camp — and the inspiration for Disney’s "Heavyweights" — became the symbol of a health intervention that enjoys worldwide popularity despite no evidence that it improves anyone's health. Support us: Hear bonus episodes on PatreonDonate on PayPalGet Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more Links! The Epic Family Feud Behind an Iconic American Weight-Loss Camp for KidsTwo teenagers placed in foster care after weight loss plan failsCalls to set up fat camps for ob...

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0:00.0	All I can think of for tagline is nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana
0:16.1	fat can't a sentence leave it in I love it.
0:26.4	Welcome to maintenance phase the podcast that would never take you out of where you're
0:30.2	comfortable and make you feel bad about yourself.
0:32.5	Oh, I like it because we're nice.
0:35.4	We are nice.
0:36.4	I'm Aubrey Gordon.
0:37.9	I'm Michael Homs.
0:39.3	This month if you join our Patreon your bonus episode will be our first ever annual
0:46.6	grifty awards where we are giving awards for the best and mostly worst of health and
0:53.0	wellness in 2021.
0:54.8	When it gets involved Nicki Minaj's cousins balls get involved.
0:59.4	It is a romp of a time.
1:01.3	But today we are talking about nana nana nana I'm not going to do the whole thing again.
1:06.4	Fat camps.
1:08.8	We are talking about fat camps.
1:10.4	Mike tell me what you know about fat camps.
1:13.0	Very little actually a couple years ago I had an idea to do an article on fat camps.
1:18.7	The idea was I was going to go to a fat camp and live there.
1:22.8	But once I started reaching out to fat camps perhaps unsurprisingly they didn't want me
1:27.4	to go.
1:28.4	Nobody would acquiesce to having this random journalist going there asking kids questions
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