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According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least one in five U.S. adults in each state are categorized as, quote unquote, living with obesity.

But for many of those folks, having physicians focus on their size is far from helpful. In fact, there's research to suggest that our

fixation on weight could be preventing us from actually helping people live healthy lives.

For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Th Rachel Feldman. Today we're talking about a topic

that might seem kind of radical to some of you, but I hope you'll listen with an open mind.

My guest today is Reagan Chastain. She's a speaker, writer, researcher, and board certified patient

advocate. Her substack newsletter, Weight and Health Care, offers meticulous evidence-based

information on, you guessed it, weight and health care. Today she's here to talk to us about how

weight stigma, in other words, a systemic bias against bigger bodies, could potentially be to blame

for many of the negative health outcomes we've been taught to associate with gaining

weight. Reagan, thanks so much for coming on to chat today. Oh, thank you for having me. I'm so

excited. I'm a big fan of your newsletter. I find it super helpful. So really looking forward to

chatting about it. But for folks who aren't already familiar with you,

how would you describe what it is you do? Yeah. So my area of expertise is at the intersections

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