Public Health Has a Weight Problem

Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven

Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

This week we have one of our favorite guests BACK on the podcast talking about the many ways fatphobia shows up in public health initiatives. Marquisele Mercedes is a doctoral student and writer from the Bronx and her doctoral training and interests are at the intersection of fat studies and scholarship on race/ism. She looks at how racism, anti-Blackness, and fatphobia shape health care, research, and public health work and training.

In This Episode We’ll Cover:

• Fatphobic messaging in public health initiatives
• How weight-centered initiatives harm POC communities
• Effective ways to increase food access with public health funding
• What food equity is and to get it + MORE!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer media production.
0:03.5	Just a quick disclaimer that there is some light cursing, actually heavy cursing in this episode.
0:09.0	And also my audio is a little wonky because of technical issues.
0:15.0	Hi, I'm Wendy.
0:16.0	And I'm Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.
0:18.9	Your online resource for inclusive and accessible wellness.
0:32.8	Welcome back. Welcome back.
0:34.7	We have another great episode for you all this week.
0:37.6	We are interviewing our girl, Mikey.
0:40.3	Her full name is Marke Celi Mercedes.
0:43.2	And that name might sound familiar because she has been on our podcast before.
0:47.4	She did an episode called when anti-diadietitians become problematic.
0:52.4	It was one of our most popular episodes.
0:55.0	If not the most popular episode ever.
0:58.2	Yeah, if not the most popular.
0:59.9	She's just so articulate and just such a vibe.
1:03.1	Like we love talking to her.
1:04.4	Such a good time.
1:06.4	Like we're just hanging out with our friend via Zoom.
1:09.6	And just to give you a little background about her,
1:12.1	she's a doctoral student and writer from the Bronx.
1:15.2	She's currently a presidential fellow at Brown University School of Public Health
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