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I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alsayo. Over the past year, we've brought you a couple of different perspectives on body size and shape.

In last year's episode with Professor Harriet Brown, we talked about the profound impact of diet culture on mental health.

Then we did an episode about the new GLP1 agonists like Ozempik, Wagovi, and Monjaro,

and the ways that they're changing our conversation about body size and shape too.

If you haven't noticed, the throughline here is that the interplay between body weight and health is really, really complex.

On the one hand, there's pretty strong scientific evidence relating high adiposity or proportion of body fat to early mortality over the whole population.

On the other though, that optimal level for you or me or any given individual is way less clear.

Even at the population level, it's not the, quote,

smaller the better, as some would have you think.

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