What Weight Tells Us about Our Health

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.5 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

At the start of 2024, many of us are thinking about how to look and feel our best. For some of us, that means making changes to our weight. But what does weight really tell us about our health? And are there other metrics we should be looking at? In this episode, Sanjay speaks with Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford, an obesity medicine physician and scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School. She explains what makes a “healthy weight,” and why changes in diet and exercise don't help everyone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	When I was in residency I had a black woman patient who was in her mid-40s that I've been treating
0:39.9	and I happened to run into this particular patient as she's about to check out at the grocery store.
0:46.0	She's like, hey, Dr. Stanford, I'm like, hey!
0:49.0	That's Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford.
0:51.0	She's an obesity medicine physician and a scientist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
0:57.0	She's also a professor at Harvard School of Medicine.
1:00.0	Now, she said she'd been caring for that patient for three years at that point,
1:04.0	but the day Dr. Stanford saw her at the grocery store, that particular encounter,
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