Thursday Dec 01, 2022

Season 1 - Episode 6: This Is Because I’m Fat, Right?

Episode 6: "This Is Because I'm Fat, Right?"

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Show Notes:

Medical Research

7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias by Aubrey Gordon
Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. BMC Med 16, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
Phelan SM, Burgess DJ, Puhl RM, et al. The adverse effect of weight stigma on the well-being of medical students with overweight or obesity: findings from a national survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2015;30(9):1251–8.
First Do No Harm: stories of fat predjudice in healthcare
When Doctors Body Shame Their Patients – It’s a fricking Cosmo article, but the anecdotes are powerful.
Haqq AM, Kebbe M, Tan Q, Manco M, Salas XR. Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity. Child Obes. 2021 Jun;17(4):229-240. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0003. Epub 2021 Mar 29. PMID: 33780639; PMCID: PMC8147499.
Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C., Smieszek, S.M., Nippert, K.E. et al. Pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences of weight stigma in healthcare. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 20, 499 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03202-5
Ives GC, Fein LA, Finch L, Sluiter EC, Lane M, Kuzon WM, Salgado CJ. Evaluation of BMI as a Risk Factor for Complications following Gender-affirming Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2019 Mar 13;7(3):e2097. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002097. PMID: 31044103; PMCID: PMC6467628.
https://naafa.org/community-voices/fat-self-care
Maintenance Phase Podcast Episode on the BMI: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1411126?client_source=large_player&iframe=true&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1411126%2Fpodcast%2Fembed#

Historical Sources

Altman, Claire E., Jennifer Van Hook, and Jonathan Gonzalez. “Becoming Overweight without Gaining a Pound: Weight Evaluations and the Social Integration of Mexicans in the United States.” International Migration Review 51, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12220.

Parr, Jessica M. “Obesity and the Emergence of Mutual Aid Groups for Weight Loss in the Post-War United States.” Social History of Medicine 27, no. 4 (2014): 768–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku020.

Rasmussen, Nicolas. “Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight as a Health Hazard in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 55, no. 4 (October 2019): 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21991.

Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York: New York University Press, 2019.

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