During the 2024 Olympics, a player on the U.S. women's rugby team, Alona Marr, got a ton of attention

for talking about her body mass index. I do have a BMI of 30. Well, 29.3, even more exact,

I've been considered overweight my whole life. I remember vividly one time in high school,

I did turn into physical to the office.

And right at the bottom of the page, it said, overweight.

Ms. Ma'am went on to win a bronze medal and also to illustrate the absurdity of BMI.

But doctors and insurance companies still use this number to make judgments about your health.

And then just yesterday, a global panel of experts advised that we measure obesity differently.

The relationship between diet and weight and health seems like it should be clear and knowable by this point, but it's really not.

Coming up on today explained why the gospel on weight loss is always being rewritten and how medications have added a brand new chapter.

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The guy in front of me in the pharmacy line is halfway through an incredibly detailed 17-minute story about his gout, a story likely more painful than the gout itself.

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Sumida Mukapadai is a writer and editor who was very anxious when she was hired as the executive editor of Teen Vogue back in 2018.

Like everyone else, Sumita had seen The Devil Wears Prada, and she knew that the fashion industry was unforgiving. But not long after she started there, she realized that things were changing.

You know, I entered the fashion industry at a really unique

moment where there was an increased interest in plus fashion, you know, and so when I got the job

at Teen Vogue, I started having all these fashion brands reaching out to me to be like, wow,

we're so excited, we're launching a plus collection, we'd love to talk to you about it, we'd love

to send it to you, how does it feel to be a fat fashion editor? And at the time, I had kind of newly gained the weight.

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