Maintenance Phase
Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
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Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
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Jan 3, 2023
“Glorifying Obesity” And Other Myths About Fat People
This week, we're talking about Aubrey's new book, "'You Just Need To Lose Weight' and 19 Other Myths About Fat People." And we're yelling about Piers Morgan as a little treat.
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Dec 20, 2022
Workplace Wellness
Charging disabled people more for health care is illegal. But what about ... charging non-disabled people less?
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* A Review of the U.S. Workplace Wellness Market
* "Wellness" Based Healthcare is a Scam
* 2013 Rand Report
* Workplace Wellness Produces No Savings\
* Workplace Wellbeing Is a Scam
* Employers should disband employee weight control programs
* Using Incentives in Workplace Wellness Programs
* Coerced into Health
* Current Trends in Reducing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the US
* The effectiveness of worksite nutrition and physical activity interventions for controlling employee overweight
* Managing Manifest Diseases, But Not Health Risks, Saved PepsiCo Money Over Seven Years
* The Dubious Empirical and Legal Foundations of Workplace Wellness Programs
* Toward A Critical Theory of Corporate Wellness
* The development and growth of employer-provided health insurance
* The Ideological Construction Of Risk
* Wellness Incentives In The Workplace
* A Fatter Butt Equals a Skinnier Wallet
* The Outcomes, Economics, and Ethics of the Workplace Wellness Industry
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Nov 15, 2022
The Food Pyramid
In the 1990s, the Food Pyramid was one of the most recognizable symbols in nutrition education. But where did it come from? Why was it created by the agriculture department? And why did it tell us to eat a whole loaf of bread every day?
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* Anna-Britt Agnsäter
* Rounding Out the Food Pyramid
* Food Lobbies, The Food Pyramid, and US Nutrition Policy
* The Fattening: Reassessing The Food Pyramid
* Catering to Cows and Consumers
* US Drops New Food Chart
* Are Cattlemen Now Guarding the Hen House?
* Testing of the Food Pyramid Comes Full Circle
* Topping the Food Pyramid
* Food Pyramid Replaced By 'MyPlate'
* Is The Food Pyramid Obsolete?
* Coca-Cola Funds Scientists to Shift Blame
* Experts Say Lobbying Skewed the US Dietary Guidelines
* Food Politics
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Nov 8, 2022
Bonus: Mike's New Podcast!
Mike and Aubrey introduce Mike's new show, If Books Could Kill! Find it on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher, Google and wherever else you get your podcasts.
Also, don't forget to pre-order Aubrey's new book!
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Nov 1, 2022
The Daily Harvest Food Poisoning Scandal
“Herpes is basically living the dream” — Aubrey Gordon.
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* Marion Nestle's "Safe Food"
* The vomiting, diarrhea, and gallbladder surgeries were bad enough. Daily Harvest’s alleged food poisoning victims say the startup’s response made things worse
* For Now, Skip Eating Products That Contain Tara Flour, CR's Food Experts Say
* Bill Marler’s Daily Harvest posts
* The original Reddit post
* The History, Politics & Perils Of The Current Food Safety Controversy
* Food poisoning and unsafe temperatures: Many meal kit companies aren’t FDA regulated
* Public Health and Food Safety: a Historical Association
* Investigating Food Safety Implications Of Meal-Kit Delivery Subscription Services In Toronto
* Vitamin retention in eight fruits and vegetables: a comparison of refrigerated and frozen storage
* Ten years post-GAO assessment, FDA remains uninformed of potentially harmful GRAS substances in foods
* Daily Harvest updates
* Rachel Drori interview
* Antioxidants in Fresh and Frozen Fruit and Vegetables: Impact Study of Varying Storage Conditions
* Generally recognized as safe (GRAS): history and description
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Oct 18, 2022
Mini-Sode: The Dr. Oz Campaign
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Mike and Aubrey break down the policies and promises of Dr. Oz's Senate campaign in Pennsylvania.
Plus! A re-run of our complete Dr. Oz episode from last year.
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* Transcript of the infamous Congressional hearing
* The Making of Dr. Oz
* Columbia and the Problem of Dr. Oz
* The FTC lawsuit against green coffee bean extract sellers
* The Oz craze: The effect of pop culture media on health care
* The BMJ content analysis of the Dr. Oz show
* Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function
* Real-world doctors fact-check Dr. Oz, and the results aren't pretty
* Dr. Oz may be America's most influential — and controversial — physician
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Oct 11, 2022
Paul Bragg & The Rise of Apple Cider Vinegar
Health claims about apple cider vinegar are everywhere. But are they true? This week, we hop into the wayback machine for the story of America's first health influencer. (That's not true, but neither is anything else in this episode.)
Thanks to David Johnston for providing sources for this week’s episode!
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* A Longstanding Legacy of Promoting Healthy Living
* About Paul (Internet Archive)
* 100 Years of Health with Patricia Bragg
* Patricia Bragg: Born to do her father's work
* In the Name of the ‘Father’ (part 2, part 3)
* FDA report on enforcement & compliance
* FTC decisions, 1941
* How Americans Became Obsessed With Drinking Apple Cider Vinegar
* Debunking the health benefits of apple cider vinegar
* Orlando Bloom Bonded with Katy Perry over Apple Cider Vinegar
* Investor group acquires Bragg Live Food Products
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Sep 27, 2022
The French Paradox
How an early-'90s newsmagazine show convinced a generation of Americans to start drinking red wine. For the antioxidants!
Special thanks to Susanne Stolpe and Alexander H. Sandtorv for helping us fact-check this episode!
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* Diet and alcohol in heart disease risk: the French Paradox
* Absorption of three wine-related polyphenols in three different matrices by healthy subjects
* From red wine to polyphenols and back: A journey through the history of the French Paradox
* Wine as a Biological Fluid: History, Production, and Role in Disease Prevention
* Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Confounders Among Nondrinking and Moderate-Drinking U.S. Adults
* Alcohol, Drinking Pattern, and Chronic Disease
* The French paradox: lessons for other countries
* Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Deaths in the World Health Organization MONICA Project
* Coronary heart disease in France and in Europe: Where are the facts?
* Wine And Juice Management And Marketing Decisions: The Case Of The French Paradox
* Decline of coronary heart disease mortality is strongly effected by changing patterns of underlying causes of death
* The Medical Autopsy: Past, Present, and Dubious Future
* New dimensions in cause of death statistics
* Should socioeconomic factors be considered as traditional risk factors for cardiovascular disease, as confounders, or as risk modifiers?
* Wine, alcohol, platelets, and the French paradox for coronary heart disease
* Alcohol, Ischemic Heart Disease, and the French Paradox
* Death certificates are not reliable: revivification of the autopsy
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Sep 13, 2022
Goop
Do we even need to write a description? It's the Goopisode!
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* How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250 Million
* How Gwyneth Paltrow took Goop from a homebrewed newsletter to a controversial $250 million wellness powerhouse
* Gwyneth Paltrow Feels Good — and So Can You
* Is Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP $1.6M In Debt?
* Goop and Condé Nast Team Up on a Magazine - The New York Times
* Gwyneth Paltrow didn't want Condé Nast to fact-check Goop articles
* A hungry Gwyneth Paltrow fails the food-stamp challenge four days in
* Dear Gwyneth, this is what living on food stamps really looks like
* My $29 Food Stamp Challenge & The Recipes
* Gwyneth Paltrow's Having the Chicest Yard Sale Ever
* Gwyneth Paltrow says children of celebrities 'almost have to work twice as hard' once they 'unfairly' get their start in Hollywood
* Gwyneth Paltrow brings aerial yoga, trans talks and cryofacials to Goop health conference
* We Attended Gwyneth Paltrow's $500-a-Ticket Health Summit
* Anti-Medication Goop Summit Expert Claims AIDS Treatment Kills and GMOs Cause Depression
* Inside Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow's Growing Empire
* The history of self-care
* Still Processing: We Care for Ourselves and Others in Trump’s America
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Sep 6, 2022
BONUS: Moon Juice Taste Test
This week's episode is running late so here's something to tide you over!
Last year, we did an episode on Gwyneth-adjacent influencer Amanda Chantal Bacon and her wellness company, Moon Juice. This year we decided to TASTE THE DUST.
This episode was originally for our Patreon supporters. Click here if you'd like to sign up!
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Aug 23, 2022
The Scarsdale Diet Murder feat. Sarah Marshall
In 1982 a murder captured America's imagination. Forty years later, two podcasts joined forces to talk about it.
Hear more from Sarah at You're Wrong About and You Are Good!
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* Diana Trilling’s “Mrs. Harris”
* Shana Alexander’s “Very Much a Lady”
* "The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet"
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Aug 9, 2022
“French Women Don't Get Fat”
A dieting book or a how-to guide for an eating disorder? Pourquoi pas les deux ?
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* The By The Book episode
* The NYT interview with Mireille Guiliano
* Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France
* Inhaling Their Food
* Publishers sell snobbery by the page
* Champagne and Pizza
* 'French Women Don't Get Fat': Like Champagne for Chocolate
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Jul 26, 2022
Pete Evans Part 2: COVID & Consequences
"Celebrity chef Pete Evans has activated his last almond with the Seven Network."
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* Pete Evans on COVID-19 restrictions
* Pete Evans on who gets COVID
* Introducing the BioCharger
* Coronavirus treatment spruiked by chef Pete Evans criticised by health associations, to be investigated by TGA - ABC News
* Pete Evans' company fined for alleged COVID-19 advertising breaches | Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
* Pete Evans fined $80,000 by health department for alleged unlawful spruiking of devices and medicines
* Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans under fire for sharing views of UK conspiracy theorist David Icke
* Pete Evans' boasts he played 60 Minutes Australia like 'game of chess'
* Oh, for Pete's sake: The rise and fall (and possible rise) of Pete Evans
* Dumped by sponsors, what happens to Pete Evans now?
* Sonnenrad, symbol…
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Jul 12, 2022
Pete Evans Part 1: The Paleo Way
How a beloved TV chef became one of Australia's most polarizing public figures.
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* Going Paleo: What Prehistoric Man Actually Ate
* The Paleo Way (video clip)
* Paleolithic nutrition for metabolic syndrome
* Paleo diet still lacks evidence
* Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of human history
* How to Really Eat Like a Hunter-Gatherer: Why the Paleo Diet Is Half-Baked
* Ancient leftovers show the real Paleo diet was a veggie feast
* Expert dismisses Pete Evans' claims that modern diet causes autism
* Celebrity Chef's Paleo Cookbook for Babies Delayed After Health Fears
* Pete Evans: paleo cookbook for mums and babies under fire again
* AMA accuses Pete Evans of endangering lives with unscientific health advice
* Pete Evans provides 'evidence' for his fluoride claims
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Jun 28, 2022
The Worm Wars
In 1998, a researcher rolled out an innovative approach to education. And in 2015, Methodology Twitter had a big fight about it.
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* The original 2004 paper
* The 2015 re-analysis
* The 2015 meta-analysis
* The Tanzania dissertation
* Doing Good Better
* Worm Wars: The Anthology
* Deworming Debunked
* WHO advises blanket anti-worming treatment for children despite lack of benefit
* Deworming Delusions? Mass Drug Administration In East African Schools
* Understanding Heterogeneity in the Impact of National Neglected Tropical Disease Control Programmes
* What Has Been Learned from the Deworming Replications: A Nonpartisan View
* Mass Deworming Programs in Middle Childhood and Adolescence
* Is it worth treating everyone who might get worms?
* New research debunks merits of global deworming programmes
* Should the WHO withdraw supp…
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Jun 7, 2022
Calorie Menu Labeling
This year, the UK implemented a law requiring chain restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus. Where did these policies come from? What impact do they have? And why is a Julia Roberts quote from 1990 the best way to describe them?
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* Calorie Labelling Regulations - GOV.UK
* Calorie labelling: implementation guidance - GOV.UK
* Do Menu Calorie Counts Actually Change How We Eat?
* Calorie counts on menus: What's the real impact on diners and restaurants?
* Court Upholds the City's Rule Requiring Some Restaurants to Post Calorie Counts
* Menu Labeling | Center for Science in the Public Interest
* Menu Labeling Requirements | FDA
* Calorie Labeling And Food Choices: A First Look At The Effects On Low-Income People In New York City
* The influence of calorie labeling on food orders and consumption: A review of the literature - PMC
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May 24, 2022
The Trouble With Calories
Weight loss is as simple as “calories in, calories out,” right? Or — gasp — could the reply guys be wrong!? This week, we dig in on the surprisingly complex science behind a seemingly simple calculation.
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* History of the Calorie in Nutrition
* Caloric Equivalents of Gained or Lost Weight
* The Foreign Policy of the Calorie
* Why the most popular rule of weight loss is completely wrong
* Time to Correctly Predict the Amount of Weight Loss With Dieting
* Mysteries of Weight Loss
* The energy balance model of obesity: beyond calories in, calories out
* “Calories in, calories out” and macronutrient intake
* Olympians owe gold standard to a 19th-century chemist
* Calories on food packets are wrong—it’s time to change that
* Why Does the FDA Recommend 2,000 Calories Per Day?
* Who Actually Needs a 2,000 Calorie a Day Diet…
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May 10, 2022
Diet Book Deep Dive: “How To Take 20 Pounds Off Your Man”
This week, Mike and Aubrey take on a manual for creep behavior masquerading as a diet book. Along the way, we cover shopping guides, journalism salaries and the proper preparation of Cornish game hens. We love our curvy husbands.
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* How to Take 20 Pounds Off Your Man by Kalter, Suzy: (1984) | The Book Store
* Suzy Kalter Gershman Obituary
* The book cover
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Apr 19, 2022
Zombie Statistics Spectacular!
Debunking some of the most widely repeated myths about fat and health.
Here's Mike's new video!
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Apr 5, 2022
Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
How a liberal journalist entrenched a libertarian fantasy.
Thanks to Sarah Taber for helping us with the research for this episode!
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* Julie Guthman's "Weighing In"
* Rachel Laudan's "Cooking and Empire"
* Heidi Zimmerman's "Caring for the Middle Class Soul"
* Joel Salatin’s Unsustainable Myth
* Chris Newman’s Blog
* Everything I Want to Do Is Racist: How America’s favorite farmer lost his way.
* Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.
* The USA lags behind other agricultural nations in banning harmful pesticides
* Governing food: Media, politics and pleasure
* Michael Pollan's Misguided Food Nostalgia
* A Plea for Culinary Modernism
* The French Terroir Strategy, and Culinary Modernism
* The Dark Side of Local
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Mar 29, 2022
Bonus: Fad Diets
This week's show is still in the oven so we're releasing one of our first Patreon bonus episodes. We asked our listeners for the wildest and wackiest fad diets they've ever tried and ended up doing mini-deep dives into The Rotation Diet, The Shangri-La Diet, The Special K Diet, Bethenny Frankel's "Naturally Thin" plan and the Blood Type Diet. Enjoy, and see you next week!
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Mar 15, 2022
Jordan Peterson Part 2: The Moscow Diaries
In 2019, Jordan Peterson disappeared from public life. One year later, he re-emerged with a diagnosis, a story and no self-reflection whatsoever.
Thanks to Katelyn Burns and Talia Lavin for help fact-checking this episode and Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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* Joe Rogan Experience #1070 - Jordan Peterson
* Why the Left Is So Afraid of Jordan Peterson
* When Your Psychologist Goes Viral: How Jordan Peterson’s Fame Affected His Private Practice
* Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity
* The Intellectual We Deserve
* Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube
* The Left’s Contempt for Jordan Peterson Is Perfectly Rational
* I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous.
* Jordan Peterson: Why I am no longer a tenured professor at the University of Toronto
* Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mystic…
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Mar 1, 2022
Jordan Peterson Part 1: The Carnivore Diet
Oops all meat: How a '50s bodybuilder, a Grateful Dead roadie and an unreadable professor accidentally launched one of America's wildest fad diets.
Here's Mike's "Cancel Culture" video!
Note: In our discussion of Jordan Peterson’s political correctness lecture, I made a sarcastic comment about looking “slim in this dress.” After the episode came out, we started hearing from listeners that my comment reminded them of fatphobic jokes they’d heard in the past and didn’t feel consistent with the message of the show. They were right! It was a bad joke and we've removed it from the episode. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback and editing past episodes in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike
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* Joe Rogan Experience #1070 - Jordan Peterson
* Atlantic article on the all-beef diet
* J…
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Feb 15, 2022
"Super Size Me"
Aubrey thought she could swear less in this week’s episode. She was wrong.
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* Super Size Me Trailer
* "Super Size Me" - CBS NewsWhere's the Beef? The Challenges of Obesity Suits
* Morgan Spurlock on Sexual Misconduct Confession, 'Super Size Me 2'
* Former Employees Say Morgan Spurlock's Production Company Was 'Fratty Boys' Club'
* Food and Drug Law Journal
* “Cheeseburger Bill” protects food industry - The Lancet
* Meet the science teacher who lost 60 pounds eating nothing but McDonald's three meals a day
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Feb 1, 2022
"Illness Influencer" Belle Gibson
In 2015, Belle Gibson was an Australian "eco-preneur" with a vegetarian cookbook, a blockbuster wellness app and a terminal cancer diagnosis. Today, she's one of the most hated figures in the country.
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* The Woman Who Fooled The World
* What we know about Belle Gibson
* The mystery of Belle Gibson, who claimed she cured cancer with clean living
* Friends and doctors raise doubts over 'Healing Belle' cancer claims
* Mega-blogger Belle Gibson casts doubt on her own cancer claims
* Melbourne mum Belle Gibson on taking the world by storm with her app The Whole Pantry, while fighting terminal brain cancer
* The Belle Gibson scandal: The rise of lifestyle gurus as micro-celebrities in low-trust societies
* Belle Gibson: "My lifelong struggle with the truth"
* Catalog of Belle’s posts and timeline
* Bad Influencer: The Great Insta Con
* Co…
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Jan 18, 2022
Diet Book Deep Dive: The Karl Lagerfeld Diet
Who’s that Bond villain stroking a cat and yelling at beloved public figures? It’s Karl Lagerfeld! This week, Mike and Aubrey go in on fashion’s favorite turbo troll and his fancy, joyless diet. This episode serves four.
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* The Karl Lagerfeld Diet
* Kaiser Karl: The Life of Karl Lagerfeld
* Karl Lagerfeld: My childhood was very simple
* A Look Back at Designer Karl Lagerfeld’s Iconic Fashion Career in Photos
* Seven of Karl Lagerfeld's most iconic moments
* Karl Lagerfeld Becomes a Video-Game Character
* Karl Lagerfeld's most controversial quotes on fat women
* Karl Lagerfeld's most controversial quotes
* Karl Lagerfeld on Adele (archived)
* Karl Lagerfeld’s illustration of Adolf Hitler and Angela Merkel (archived)
* Paris is Losing it - The New York Times
* Here's What Our Nutritionist Thinks of Karl Lagerfeld's Diet…
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Jan 4, 2022
Fat Camps
How America's oldest fat camp — and the inspiration for Disney’s "Heavyweights" — became the symbol of a health intervention that enjoys worldwide popularity despite no evidence that it improves anyone's health.
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* The Epic Family Feud Behind an Iconic American Weight-Loss Camp for Kids
* Two teenagers placed in foster care after weight loss plan fails
* Calls to set up fat camps for obese children in Scotland
* Childhood obesity: are new treatment centres the solution?Weight-loss Camps and Their Effect on Childhood Obesity
* Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth
* Inside Britain’s First Ever Residential “Fat Camp”
* Working at Camp Shane: Employee Reviews
* Missing campers, falsified documents and other issues revealed in CT weight-loss camp investigation
* Kids Weight Loss Camp That Closed Has…
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Dec 14, 2021
The "Sleep Loss Epidemic"
Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" was one of the most popular and acclaimed wellness books of 2017. There's just one problem: Much of it isn't true.
Thanks to University of Ottawa Postdoctoral Fellow Dylan Smith for helping us with the research!
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* Walker's TED Talk
* Alexey's blog post: Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
* Walker’s Response
* Trouble With TED
* Does daylight savings kill people?
* Why We Sleep: A Tale Of Institutional Failure
* Is Matthew Walker’s “Why We Sleep” Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors?
* Up All Night: The science of sleeplessness
* Exploring the Necessity and Virtue of Sleep
* Why Do We Sleep?
* Siesta in Healthy Adults and Coronary Mortality in the General Population
* A Chronobiological Evaluation of the Acute Effects of Daylight Saving Time on…
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Nov 30, 2021
Vibrators
It's a sexual health episode! This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the hotly debated medical history of vibrators and ask: who fact-checks the fact-checkers?
Note: A previous version of this episode included language that referred to “the female downstairs,” implying both that gender is linked to genitals (it isn’t) and that vibrators were used primarily by cis women (they weren’t). We love our trans listeners and we don’t want to do anything that makes them feel excluded, so we’ve removed the sections where that language appeared. We'll be discussing this and our approach to handling feedback in more detail soon. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to let us know! — Mike
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* The Technology of Orgasm by Rachel Maines
* Buzz by Hallie Lieberman
* Signior Dildo
* Hysteria! trailer
* Vibrators had a long history as medical quackery befor…
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Nov 16, 2021
Is Being Fat Bad For You?
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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* Katherine Flegal’s “The obesity wars and the education of a researcher”
* Walter Willett's " Evidence does not support benefit of being overweight on mortality"
* Flegal’s 2005 paper
* Flegal’s 2013 article
* Willett’s 2016 meta-analysis
* The infamous 2004 CDC paper
* Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
* Paul Campos's "The Obesity Myth"
* Walter Willett’s Food Fight
* The obesity research that blew up
* Flawed methods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta-analysis
*…
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Oct 26, 2021
Diet Book Deep Dive: Angela Lansbury's "Positive Moves"
At the height of her "Murder She Wrote" fame, Angela Lansbury released a home workout video full of synth music, peach jumpsuits and ~sensuality~. This week, we’re exploring the anti-Goop-ness of Angela’s fitness book and video, "Positive Moves."! It gets a little heavy toward the end, but we promise: No one was canceled in the making of this episode.
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* Positive Moves video on YouTube (cued up to “moving freely”)
* Positive Moves book
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Oct 12, 2021
Rachel Hollis Part 2: Girl, Start Apologizing
In the sequel (sorry) to our first installment, we take a deep dive into Rachel's wildly problematic books and deeply weird downfall. Along the way we discuss allyship etiquette, MLMs and Ronald Reagan. We remain convinced that getting matching tattoos was the right decision for us.
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* The infamous Tik Tok
* Savy Writes Books' video essays
* The Rise & Fall of Rachel Hollis
* The Divine Rise of Multilevel Marketing
* Kaitlyn Luckow's "Girl, It’s Okay To Be Dirty: A Look At Toxic Self-Help"
* Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis
* Jesus never called us to chase after power, money, and fame
* “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message
* Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside
* Influencer Rachel Hollis Is Facing Accusations She Is Pla…
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Sep 28, 2021
Rachel Hollis Part 1: Hashtag Relatable
Girl, stop reinforcing the status quo.
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* The infamous Tik Tok
* Momfession: I get up at 5 am
* The "bikini mom" talk
* How To Start A Podcast
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Sep 14, 2021
Marianne Williamson
Last year, spiritual leader Marianne Williamson made headlines when she ran for president. But 10 years earlier, she wrote a bestselling book that promised to teach readers how to “surrender" their weight forever. This week, Mike and Aubrey take a deep dive into Williamson’s life story and her 2010 book, “A Course in Weight Loss." Along the way we talk nonprofit drama, Eleanor Roosevelt and gays for Marianne. Plus, Mike’s got a message for the twinks.
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* Marianne Williamson on Forgiveness
* A Course in Weight Loss
* A Course in Weight Loss, Chapter Two
* A Course in Weight Loss, Chapter 7
* A Course in Weight Loss, Chapter 8
Links!
* Who is Marianne Williamson? Her 2020 presidential campaign and policies, explained
* The Divine Miss W
* Faith: Marianne Williamson Is Full of It
* The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson
*…
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Aug 31, 2021
The Great Protein Fiasco
How Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a series of nutritional misconceptions we're still living with today.
Special thanks to John Nott for helping us out with this episode! Here's his papers on the history of protein and the British Empire.
* “No one may starve in the British Empire”: Kwashiorkor, Protein and the Politics of Nutrition Between Britain and Africa
* “How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition
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* Cicely Williams’ dissertation
* Dariush Mozaffarian's "History of Modern Nutrition Science"
* The Incidence Of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition Of Early Childhood
* An Error of Medicine? Kwashiorkor and the “Protein Gap”
* Childhood Malnutrition In Developing Nations: Looking Back and Looking Forward
* The Politics of Protein
* The Impact of Coloni…
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Aug 17, 2021
The Obesity Epidemic
Over the last 30 years, fatness has been defined as a risk factor for disease, then a disease in itself, then a global epidemic. What caused this rapid shift? Who’s gonna join our group of B-roll vigilantes? And did we just hear Morgan Freeman?
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* Fat Politics
* Killer Fat
* The End of the Obesity Epidemic
* Folk Devils and Moral Panics
* Moral Panics
Links!
* American Obesity Association PSA
* AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease
* Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications
* For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions
* Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms
* Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer
* Research: How Americans’ Biases Are Changing (or not) Over Time
* Satcher: Obesity Reaching…
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Aug 3, 2021
The Body Mass Index
The BMI is EVERYWHERE. But is it scientific or scientif-ish? While many Americans think of the body mass index as an objective measure of health, its history reveals a more complicated story. This week, Mike and Aubrey tackle the first in a two-part series about the BMI and the “Obesity Epidemic.” Along the way they visit 18th century Belgium, learn a gross new acronym and dissect Dracula's facial features.
*LINKS!:*
* The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI (Elemental)
* Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics, and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874 (University of Pittsburgh Press)
* Mindful of eugenics’ dark history, researchers are reexamining the genetics of social mobility (Quartz)
* Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874)—the average man and indices of obesity (Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation)
* For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions (Obesity)
* Quetelet, Adolphe (Canada’s Eugenics Archives)
* Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI I…
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Jul 20, 2021
School Lunches, P-Hacking and the Original "Pizzagate"
This week we're diving into one of the biggest-ever scandals in nutrition research. For nearly two decades, Brian Wansink's Food and Brand Lab told Americans that lower weights, healthier workplaces and better school lunches were just a few small tweaks away. Then, in 2015, he wrote a blog post and it all came crashing down.
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* A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
* Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab
* Brian Wansink: Data Masseur, Media Villain, Emblem of a Thornier Problem
* The Wansink Dossier: An Overview
* More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up
* Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat
* False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Pres…
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Jul 6, 2021
The Keto Diet
So long, root vegetables! This week, we dive into the strange and surprising history of the 100-year-old ketogenic diet. Along the way, we encounter a Victorian bodybuilder, an infamous podcast bro and the possibility of a bad Meryl Streep performance (!). Get in, loser, we're counting macros!
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* What Is the Keto Diet and Does It Work? (NYT)
* The Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss (Today’s Dietitian)
* Meet the Wackiest Billionaire Ever to Run for President (Money)
* Trailer for "First, Do No Harm"
* Keto Diet History - How the Ketogenic Diet Went Mainstream (Men's Health)
* 7 Dangers of the Keto Diet | Health.com (Health Magazine)
* 15 Keto Diet Side Effects to Know – Possible Keto Diet Dangers (Prevention)
* Ketogenic Diet May Lead to an Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (The Physiological Society)
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Jun 22, 2021
Oprah Winfrey & "John of God"
Special guest Kimberly Springer joins us to talk about an infamous, dangerous faith healer and his two — two! — appearances on Oprah's talk show. This episode contains, we're sorry to say, detailed descriptions of sexual assault.
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* Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture
* Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
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* Behind the Bastards podcast series on John of God
* The O Magazine article
* John of God, the Miracle Healer
* Celebrity Healer in Brazil Is Accused of Sexually Abusing Followers
* Oprah’s 2012 article
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Jun 8, 2021
Oprah Winfrey & The “Wagon of Fat”
Do you have weird feelings about Oprah? So do we, and so does our guest! Kimberly Springer, co-editor of "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture," joins us to talk about the rise of Oprah Winfrey and her infamous "wagon of fat" weight loss episode.
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* Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture
* Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
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Clips!
* Oprah Winfrey Rolls Out A Wagon Of Fat (Buzzfeed)
* How Oprah's Weight Affected Her Relationship with Stedman (Oprah)
* MadTv - Oprah - Fat Cam (Mad TV)
Links!
* The Importance of Being Oprah (New York Times Magazine)
* Oprah's 'Fattest' Mistake (CBS News)
* 5 awesome objects from the new Oprah exhibit (Washington Post)
* Oprah's biggest on-air mistake? The wagon of fat (Today)
* Diet That Made Oprah Winfrey Slim Demands Discipline,…
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May 25, 2021
Celery Juice
Do you have viruses? Cysts? Cancer? Are you tired sometimes? According to Instagram, the problem might be a lack of liquefied vegetables! This week, Mike and Aubrey take on a troubling taste test, meet a ghost with bad intentions and encounter the longest list of problematic celebrities we've ever seen.
Plus, we start the show with an announcement: We're doing Patreon-only bonus episodes! Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase
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* Anthony William on Extra
* Anthony William on Keeping Up with the Kardashians
* Celery Juice Is the Perfect, Probably Pointless Trend for 2019 (Vanity Fair)
* Food Isn't Medicine. Here's Why It's Dangerous to Believe It Is. (Huffington Post)
* Is celery juice a viable alternative to nitrites in cured meats? (McGill University)
* Is Celery Juice a Sham? (The New York Times)
* Today's Diet Fads (Today's Dietitian…
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May 11, 2021
The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline
Special guest Mike Rothschild tells us how the road to wellness can be an on-ramp to a conspiracy theory. Along the way we debunk oil pulling, explore Instagram aesthetics and bemoan anti-vaxx argumentation tactics . Mike gets the date of the January 6th insurrection wrong and he is sorry.
Mike Rothschild is on Twitter and you can pre-order his book here!
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Apr 27, 2021
Diet Book Deep Dive: Ed McMahon’s “Slimming Down”
This week is our first Diet Book Deep Dive, where we dig into some of the worst and wildest weight loss advice we can find. First up: Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon's pun, alcohol and misogyny-fueled diet plan from the 1970s. Hope you like broiled steak and Sanka!
Clips!
* Ed McMahon & Britney Spears on Star Search
* Ed McMahon for American Family Sweepstakes
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Apr 13, 2021
Olestra
In 1996, Proctor & Gamble launched an artificial fat substitute that promised all of the taste but none of the calories. There was just one problem.
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* Marion Nestle’s The Selling of Olestra
* Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything
* The 1996 Federal Register
* The Trouble With Fries
* Reduction of the body burden of PCBs and DDE by dietary intervention in a randomized trial
* Review of the effects of dilution of dietary energy with olestra on energy intake
* Authors’ Financial Relationships With the Food and Beverage Industry and Their Published Positions on the Fat Substitute Olestra
* Postmarketing Surveillance of New Food Ingredients: Results from the Program with the Fat Replacer Olestra
* Effects of wheat bran and olestra on objective measures of stool and subjective reports of GI symptoms
* The effect of ingesting olestra-base…
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Mar 30, 2021
Eating Disorders
Fat people have them too! This week, special guest Erin Harrop tells us about one of America's most under-diagnosed and misunderstood problems. Along the way we talk about elbow bumps, Twitter etiquette and '90s sweatpants. Our content warnings are becoming increasingly threatening.
Here's Erin's faculty page and a bunch of her research!
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Mar 16, 2021
Weight Watchers
Get your flex point calculators and food scales! This week, Mike and Aubrey are talking about one of America's most iconic diet programs: Weight Watchers. Along the way, we encounter The Rock, the mating habits of straight people and a new James Bond villain.
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* Jean Nidetch, a Founder of Weight Watchers, Dies at 91
* Mass Firing on Zoom Is Latest Sign of Weight Watchers Unrest
* Weight Watcher's Kurbo app slammed for targeting kids. Makers defend it
* What's gone wrong at Weight Watchers?
* Weight Watchers Is Offering Teens Free Memberships and People Aren't Happy
* Americans’ new way of losing weight has left Weight Watchers behind
* How the Oprah effect helped Weight Watchers regain Americans' trust
* Deal Master Debbane
* The Population Cost‐Effectiveness of Weight Watchers with General Practitioner Referral Compared with Standard Care
* W…
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Mar 2, 2021
The Master Cleanse
Are your moods too stable? Is your face free of cold sores? Get your lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper ready, because this week we're talking about celebrity favorite THE MASTER CLEANSE!
Along the way we roast New Atheism, praise Gwyneth Paltrow (!) and endorse garbanzo bean salads. Mike wishes to clarify that he adores Kate Bush and quips with the utmost affection.
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* The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs
* I Heard It Through the Diet Grapevine (New York Times)
* Improving Ourselves to Death (The New Yorker)
* Cleansing's Dirty Secret (Marie Claire)
* Mr. Clean: Jeffrey Steingarten Puts the Master Cleanse to the Test (Vogue)
* The Dubious Practice of Detox (Harvard Health)
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Feb 16, 2021
Dr. Oz
This week we're dissecting "America's Doctor." How did a smart, hardworking surgeon become one of TV's leading purveyors of junk science? Along the way we debunk green coffee bean extract, raspberry ketones, conversion therapy (!) and a salad dressing skincare regimen.
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* Transcript of the infamous Congressional hearing
* The Making of Dr. Oz
* Columbia and the Problem of Dr. Oz
* The FTC lawsuit against green coffee bean extract sellers
* The Oz craze: The effect of pop culture media on health care
* The BMJ content analysis of the Dr. Oz show
* Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function
* Real-world doctors fact-check Dr. Oz, and the results aren't pretty
* Dr. Oz may be America's most influential — and controversial — physician
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Feb 2, 2021
Snake Oil
The world of dieting and wellness is full of so-called snake oil salesmen—but what IS snake oil? This week, we take a wild ride through the history of health scams and discover a startling twist about an everyday idiom. Along the way, Aubrey delivers fun facts about sanitation from memory and Mike roasts the state where most of his family lives.
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* Snake Oil, Hustlers & Hambones by Mary Anderson
* A History Of 'Snake Oil Salesmen' : Code Switch (NPR)
* How Snake Oil Got a Bad Rap (Hint: It Wasn’t The Snakes’ Fault) (Collectors Weekly)
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Jan 19, 2021
The Biggest Loser
This week we dissect the content and impact of one of America's most harmful TV experiments.
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* Aubrey’s article on The Biggest Loser
* That's not reality for me': Australian audiences respond to the Biggest Loser
* "Cheapening the struggle:" obese people's attitudes towards the Biggest Loser
* The Effects of Reality Television on Weight Bias: An Examination of The Biggest Loser
* 'It's a miracle no one has died yet': The Biggest Loser returns, despite critics' warnings
* The Retrograde Shame of The Biggest Loser
* Analysis of all contestants
* Neoliberalism And The Realities Of Reality Television
* The “Reality” of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health
* Life after NBC's "The Biggest Loser": The Experiences and Perspectives of Former Reality TV Contestants
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Jan 5, 2021
Halo Top Ice Cream
WE’RE BACK! A new diet ice cream is taking your grocery store by storm. But what even is it? This week, Mike and Aubrey talk biohacking, dieting for straight dudes and the extremely ill-advised "Halo Top diet."
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* What is biohacking? The new “science” of optimizing your brain and body. (Vox)
* Halo Top Is Now the Most Popular Pint of Ice Cream in America (Food and Wine)
* What It's Like to Eat Nothing but This Magical, Healthy Ice Cream for 10 Days (GQ)
* Is Halo Top Good For You? The Truth About Low-Calorie, Low-Fat Ice Creams (HuffPost)
* Seven in 10 young people would eat whole tub of low-cal ice cream (The Grocer UK)
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Nov 24, 2020
Anti-Fat Bias
To celebrate the release of her new book, Aubrey takes Mike on a tour through the statistics and debates surrounding weight bias. Anyone interested in body positivity, airline seats, 'skinny shaming' or the sugar content of melons is legally obligated to join us.
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Get Aubrey's book in the U.S.:
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* Beacon Press
* Buy from your local bookstore on Indiebound
Get Aubrey's book outside the U.S.
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Nov 17, 2020
The Twinkie Defense
The Twinkie Defense has become a shorthand for disingenuous legal defense strategies. But was it disingenuous? (Yes, but not in the way you think!)
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* Mike's "Victim's Rights" episode on his other show!
* The Trial of Dan White: The Diminished Capacity ("Twinkie") Defense
* Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
* The Myth of the Twinkie Defense: The Verdict in the Dan White Case Wasn’t Based on His Ingestion of Junk Food
* Psychiatric Testimony and the Insanity Defense
* California’s Proposition 8 (1982)Support the show
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Nov 10, 2020
Moon Juice
What's that Gwyneth Paltrow's drinking? It's MOON JUICE! This week, we're talking adaptogens, brain dust, hot sex milk and the wellness company that's taken L.A. by storm. Be sure to take your quinton shots before you listen to this one.
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* How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day (Elle)
* How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business (NYT)
* What Are Adaptogens? (NYT)
* Wellness Brand Moon Juice Has Plenty of Haters - And Its Founder is Cool With That (Entrepreneur)
* The Moon Juice Gospel of Self (The New Yorker)
* How Wellness Got Whitewashed (Glamour)Support the show
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Nov 3, 2020
Snackwell's Cookies
They hit the market in 1992. Three years later, they were the best-selling cookie in America. This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the low-fat craze of the 1990s and sample the snack that became the symbol of its rise and fall.
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* How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America
* “Eat More, They’re Healthy”
* Anthology of “Cookie Man” ads
* “What if It’s All Been A Big Fat Lie?”
* “Ending the War on Fat”
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Oct 27, 2020
Fen Phen & Redux
Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months. But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market. They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)
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* Dispensing with the Truth by Alicia Mundy
* The New Miracle Drug (Time Magazine)
* How Fen-Phen, A Diet 'Miracle,' Rose and Fell (the New York Times)
* Blowing the Whistle on Fen-Phen (Journal of Business Communication)
* Purdue OxyContin settlement would rank among largest in pharma history (Reuters)
* National Trends in Antiobesity Medication Use (JAMA Network)
* The Fen-Phen Finale: A Study of Weight Loss and Valvular Heart Disease (Obesity Research)
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Oct 20, 2020
The President's Physical Fitness Test
The shuttle run! The flexed arm hang! The v-sit reach! These terms are seared into the memories of an entire generation of American schoolchildren. But did the President's Physical Fitness Test actually make us fitter? (Spoiler: lol no)
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* The Report That Shocked The President
* JFK’s Sports Illustrated article, “The Soft American”
* 1958–2008: 50 Years of Youth Fitness Tests in the United States
* The President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematisation of Children's Play in America
* Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram
* The Modern Era: Blossoming of the Olympic Movement and the Conquest of Acute Disease
* The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: The F…
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Oct 11, 2020
What's Our Deal?
Welcome to Maintenance Phase! In our first episode, we tell our origin stories and talk about some of the basic ideas behind the show.
Here's where to find us:
Aubrey: https://www.yourfatfriend.com/
Mike: https://rottenindenmark.org/
Thanks to Ashley Smith for editing assistance and Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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