Fierce Fatty Podcast

The American Medical Association released a press statement saying that the use of BMI is problematic. Is this good news?? The AMA famously went against their own expert advice to classify fatness as a disease with the BMI as the way to diagnose the disease so what’s with this turn about? Does it mean that the BMI will be no more or is this just more sneaky weight loss industry lobbying which will cause more harm?

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AMA: Use of BMI alone is an imperfect clinical measure: https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/public-health/ama-use-bmi-alone-imperfect-clinical-measure

AMA adopts new policy clarifying role of BMI as a measure in medicine: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-adopts-new-policy-clarifying-role-bmi-measure-medicine

National Institutes of Health: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/National_Institutes_of_Health

9 Ways to Eat Clean: https://www.webmd.com/diet/default.htm?fbclid=IwAR0pJyF7CaHV6deTttRdAjIWkcwu1tkDnVVBGrWn6jgVElIs4N5LpVgQkXQ

Is Obesity A Disease or A Behavior Abnormality? Did the AMA Get It Right?: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179496/#:~:text=In%20June%202013%2C%20the%20American,requiring%20treatment%20and%20prevention%20efforts

Today we are looking at the Warsaw Ghetto Hunger Study, the Children of HungerWinter, and the Minnesota Starvation Experiment to answer the question what does hunger do to our mental and physical wellbeing? Massive trigger warning: mention of calories, types of food, starvation, eating disorders, self-harm, murder, the holocaust, and death. Although most are brief mentions and not going into details.

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The psychology of hunger By Dr. David Baker and Natacha Keramidas: https://www.apa.org/monitor/2013/10/hunger The Starvation Study That Changed The World: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/minnesota-starvation-experiment Physiology of weight regain: Lessons from the classic Minnesota Starvation Experiment on human body composition regulation https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13189 The Secret Starvation Study Conducted by Jewish Doctors at Warsaw Ghetto: https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-secret-starvation-study-conducted-by-jewish-doctors-at-warsaw-ghetto-1.7965422 The Hunger Disease Study in the Warsaw Ghetto: https://www.urologichistory.museum/collections/the-scope-of-urology-newsletter/issue-2-summer-2020/hunger-disease-study This is what hunger does: https://thecorrespondent.com/5379/this-is-what-hunger-does/358445802-e6acda55

When we see headlines about the cost of fatness on society and what a terrible burden that is - are those numbers real? How do they come up with that number? We are looking at the supposed burden of fat people in Canada today and their $7.1 billion cost and working out how they got to that figure and how much of that number can be attributable to anti-fat bias and the harms living in a society dedicated to fat hate. TW: 3 mentions of O Word by mistake and anti-fat fuckery.

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The costs of obesity in Canada have been estimated at $4.6–$7.1 billion annually: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/migration/phac-aspc/hp-ps/hl-mvs/oic-oac/assets/pdf/oic-oac-eng.pdf

Is there more to the equation? Weight bias and the costs of obesity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6964496/

Letter to the Editor: Response to Singh et al. (2018). Is there more to the equation? Weight bias and the costs of obesity. Canadian Journal of Public Health: https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-019-00223-2

New “ob*sity” treatments and technology to save the NHS billions: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-obesity-treatments-and-technology-to-save-the-nhs-billions#:~:text=Obesity%20costs%20the%20NHS%20a,spent%20on%20key%20frontline%20services.

How much has religion influenced the propagation of diet culture, if at all? Are atheists affected by religious moralizing of food? Do beliefs about “indulgences” from the 1500’s still have an impact on us today or are they quite notions from the past? Let’s talk about it in today’s episode!

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Come with me to the Dominican Republic: https://trovatrip.com/trip/north-america/dominican-republic/dominican-republic-with-vinny-welsby-jun-2023 Diet Culture Timeline: https://dietculturetimeline.com/infographics/ https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/protestant-reformation https://www.futurity.org/fat-phobia-book-sabrina-strings-2130182-2/ https://qz.com/quartzy/1516625/societys-warped-idea-of-healthy-living-is-based-on-puritanism-not-science Consuming Bodies: Fatness, Sexuality, and the Protestant Ethic: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gw1m18r Purity Through Food: How Religious Ideas Sell Diets: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/the-puritanical-approach-to-food/392030/ Purity Through Food: How Religious Ideas Sell Diets https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/05/the-puritanical-approach-to-food/392030/

The movie ‘The Whale’ is now out in cinemas. The fat community has been dreading the release ever since the trailer dropped. Is it as bad as we had feared or is the story told with compassion? What about other films that depict super fat folks who spend their life indoors, are they empathetic or reinforcing the same old tropes?

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Come with me to the Dominican Republic: https://trovatrip.com/trip/north-america/dominican-republic/dominican-republic-with-vinny-welsby-jun-2023 The Cruel Spectacle of ‘The Whale’: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opinion/the-whale-film.html Behind paywall: https://archive.ph/Iw3iU https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/the-whale-review-49039630 https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-whale-review-darren-aronofsky-brendan-fraser/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opinion/the-whale-film.html https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/elaminabdelmahmoud/the-whale-brendan-fraser-darren-aronofsky-review https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-whale-movie-review-2022

The Exhausting Fatphobia of "The Whale" by VICTORIA EDEL: https://www.popsugar.com/author/victoria-edel

Fatphobia Sinks Darren Aronofsky’s Drama, Mark Hanson: https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/the-whale-review-darren-aronofsky-brendan-fraser/