Is Being Fat Bad For You?
Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
4.8 • 16.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
For nearly four decades, Americans have heard a simple story about health, longevity and obesity. This week, we learn it's a little more complicated.
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Links!
- Katherine Flegal’s “The obesity wars and the education of a researcher”
- Walter Willett's " Evidence does not support benefit of being overweight on mortality"
- Flegal’s 2005 paper
- Flegal’s 2013 article
- Willett’s 2016 meta-analysis
- The infamous 2004 CDC paper
- Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
- Paul Campos's "The Obesity Myth"
- Walter Willett’s Food Fight
- The obesity research that blew up
- Flawed methods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta-analysis
- Does Body Mass Index Adequately Convey a Patient’s Mortality Risk?
- The Weight of Medical Authority: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge in the Obesity Epidemic
- Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?
- Commentary: On ‘public health aspects of weight control’
- Obesity And Its Relation To Health And Disease
- Does Being Overweight Really Reduce Mortality?
- Individual and Aggregate Years-of-life-lost Associated With Overweight and Obesity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody and welcome to maintenance phase, the podcast that's just concerned about your |
| 0:15.0 | health! |
| 0:16.0 | Oh my god! |
| 0:17.0 | We're in your mentions on Instagram. |
| 0:20.6 | You're glorifying it. |
| 0:23.4 | That one really lived or died by the line reading and I feel pleased with how it turned out |
| 0:27.4 | if I'm honest. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm Aubrey Gordon. |
| 0:30.8 | I'm Michael Hobbs. |
| 0:31.8 | This month by astonishingly popular request, our bonus episode for Patreon patrons at every |
| 0:38.5 | level is the HBO Max documentary miniseries The Way Down. |
| 0:43.8 | Yes. |
| 0:44.8 | I have been told that I have very disappointing opinions on this matter. |
| 0:47.5 | So enjoy those. |
| 0:51.7 | And today we are talking about is being fat bad for you. |
| 0:56.9 | I'm both very excited for this to get the Michael Hobbs like terrier digging through a million |
| 1:04.5 | facts kind of treatment. |
| 1:06.9 | I am also nervous about it because this is the kind of thing that people with profound |
| 1:13.2 | anti-fat bias use against fat people all the time. |
| 1:18.3 | Any time you open up this conversation it's like opening up Pandora's fucking box for |
| 1:24.2 | fat people. |
| 1:25.2 | But this little intro is so telling I think because the way that fat people and thin people |
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