Is Being Fat Bad For You?
from Maintenance Phase
by Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
Published: Tue Nov 16 2021
Show Notes
For nearly four decades, Americans have heard a simple story about health, longevity and obesity. This week, we learn it's a little more complicated.
Thanks to Katherine Flegal, Paul Campos, Jeff Hunger and Jason Salemi for helping us research and fact-check this episode!
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Links!
- KatherineFlegal’s “The obesity wars and the education of a researcher”
- WalterWillett's " Evidence does not support benefit of being overweight on mortality"
- Flegal’s2005paper
- Flegal’s2013article
- Willett’s2016meta-analysis
- Theinfamous 2004CDC paper
- Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
- Paul Campos's "The Obesity Myth"
- WalterWillett’s Food Fight
- Theobesity research that blew up
- Flawedmethods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta-analysis
- DoesBody Mass Index Adequately Convey a Patient’s Mortality Risk?
- TheWeight of Medical Authority: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge in the Obesity Epidemic
- Obesity:An Overblown Epidemic?
- Commentary: On ‘public health aspects of weight control’
- ObesityAnd Its Relation To Health And Disease
- DoesBeing Overweight Really Reduce Mortality?
- Individualand Aggregate Years-of-life-lost Associated With Overweight and Obesity