Losing It: The Truth About Health and Weight
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
What if the dangers of being heavy have been overstated, or misrepresented? This new episode of the podcast series “Losing It” explores the relationship between health and weight, and the argument that we focus on the scale too much and not enough on healthy behaviors.
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| 0:34.8 | In 2005, Catherine Flegel and her colleagues did a research study. |
| 0:41.7 | Catherine didn't think it was going to be controversial. |
| 0:46.1 | Unfortunately, that was a miscalculation on my part. |
| 0:49.4 | It was a huge deal. |
| 0:51.2 | Catherine was a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the time, |
| 0:57.1 | and the study she was working on looked at weight-associated deaths. |
| 1:02.1 | It actually found something surprising, something that ran contrary to a pretty core idea about weight. |
| 1:12.4 | Their analysis suggested that extra pounds might not be so bad for you. |
| 1:19.1 | When they published what they found, their study kind of went viral. |
| 1:24.1 | I had to get a separate phone line just to feel the calls from reporters. And criticism came |
| 1:30.8 | really quickly. This one professor had begun preemptively contacting reporters. The study had been |
| 1:38.3 | featured in the Journal of the American Medical Association, a highly respected journal that vetted the work before publishing it. |
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