On this week's on the media, a whole lot of fat panic.

Fat is a metabolically and hormonally active organ may suppress the immune system.

We see it almost impossible to think that somebody could be fat and healthy at the same time.

People with obesity are treated differently by the medical profession.

The finding we had that really perturbed people was overweight, was associated with fewer

deaths than expected compared to somebody with normal weight.

Whose privilege is being threatened by folks who didn't use to have power?

What do those bodies look like?

All of a sudden, this non-athletic body is as beautiful as the standard swimsuit model

for sports illustrated.

The whole thing is alive.

We're talking about the 18th century.

It's not enough for us to be slender.

We need models of beauty that speak to our values.

We are going to create a hierarchy, a reinvention of what was known in the 16th century as the

Great Chain of Being.

How scary is fat after this?

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

From almost the moment, coronavirus began sweeping our shores in the spring of 2020, one

group of Americans was declared to be among the most at risk, no matter their age, medical

history, or general healthiness.

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