The Racial Origins Of Fat Phobia w/ Sabrina Strings - ReAir
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Today we're re-airing one of our favorite episodes! We talked with Sabrina Strings, an Asst. Professor of Sociology about the racial origins of fat phobia. Fearing the Black Body is her first book and it's a necessary read (especially for people working in healthcare!) She digs deep into the history of the white, thin ideal and how it's directly related to our society's disgust for black bodies. Do yourself a favor and get that book now! In the meantime, tune into the episode.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- The fascinating (and infuriating) origins of weight bias and the thin ideal – it goes further back than you think
- How this history affects our relationship to food and our bodies
- Why BMI is an arbitrary measure of overall health and mortality
- How racial bias in research is a problem and what to do about it
- My (Jess) most EMBARRASSING body-image related highschool secret (that I legit almost edited this out of the episode)
- & MORE!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:02.9 | Hey, it's Wendy. |
| 0:04.0 | And it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven podcast. |
| 0:06.9 | Your online resource for delicious and nutritious living. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome back to another episode of the Food Heaven podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Jess Garrow, what's going on? |
| 0:25.9 | Welcome, welcome. |
| 0:27.1 | There's not much going on for me. |
| 0:28.8 | Over the next couple of weeks, I feel like I am just taking it one day at a time |
| 0:34.4 | until our Christmas break. |
| 0:36.9 | And I think I said before we're going to LA and we planned a bunch of fun things to do. |
| 0:43.2 | One of them, Wendy, you said you already did before and you had a bad experience |
| 0:48.1 | with the floating, remember the floating pod. |
| 0:51.2 | Well, yeah, I don't want to, I don't want to bias you in any way, but it was very interesting. |
| 0:56.4 | I'll say that it's like those, what's the official term for them? |
| 1:01.1 | Float therapy? |
| 1:01.9 | I don't know. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, I don't know. |
| 1:03.3 | It's like you immerse yourself in tons of salt and you flow and you're in like this dark tub |
| 1:10.0 | for a really long time. |
| 1:12.9 | Maybe we could talk about it after Jess says it so we could hear about her experience. |
| 1:17.7 | Mine was very interesting. |
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