The Obesity Epidemic

Maintenance Phase

Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Wellness, Health & Fitness, History, Education, Science, Health

4.8 • 16.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Over the last 30 years, fatness has been defined as a risk factor for disease, then a disease in itself, then a global epidemic. What caused this rapid shift? Who’s gonna join our group of B-roll vigilantes? And did we just hear Morgan Freeman?Support us:Hear bonus episodes on PatreonDonate on PayPalGet Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and moreBooks!Fat Politics Killer Fat The End of the Obesity Epidemic Folk Devils and Moral Panics Moral Panics Links!American Obe...

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0:00.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:11.7	Welcome to Maintenance Phase, the podcast that would never film you from across the street showing only your body but not your head.
0:19.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:21.5	Where there's actually research on that specific thing.
0:24.5	I know.
0:25.2	And we're totally gonna fucking talk about it.
0:27.5	It's like you already know, Mike.
0:29.3	It's like you already know.
0:30.6	This is a thing.
0:31.4	The only places in American life that you see that many headless torsos are local news segments about obesity and granger.
0:37.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:39.0	As a gay man who researchers this issue, I am very familiar with this format.
0:42.5	Yeah, go down the whole rabbit hole.
0:44.8	Yeah, the rabbit hole also a section of Scruff.
0:47.3	Yes.
0:48.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:49.2	I'm Aubrey Gordon.
0:50.0	I am Michael Hobbs.
0:50.8	If you would like to support the show, you can do that through Patreon at patreon.com slash maintenance phase.
0:56.3	You can also buy t-shirts, mugs, masks, they're coming back at T-Public on our T-Public store.
1:02.9	Both of those are linked for you in the show notes and at maintenance phase.com.
1:07.2	And today, we're gonna talk about the obesity epidemic.
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