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“French Women Don't Get Fat”
9 augustus 2022 · 57 min
A dieting book or a how-to guide for an eating disorder? Pourquoi pas les deux ? Lees meer
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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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Pete Evans Part 2: COVID & Consequences
26 juli 2022 · 59 min
"Celebrity chef Pete Evans has activated his last almond with the Seven Network." Lees meer
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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 used in shooter's manifesto, explained
Pete Evans Is Now Posting Neo-Nazi Symbols And The Far-Right Love It
Celebrity chef Pete Evans' Instagram account deleted for 'repeatedly sharing' Covid misinformation
Neo-Nazi groups allegedly targeted celebrity chef Pete Evans before infamous black sun cartoon
The URL 'Pete Evans For Senate' redirects to unexpected webpage
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Pete Evans Part 1: The Paleo Way
12 juli 2022 · 53 min
How a beloved TV chef became one of Australia's most polarizing public figures. Lees meer
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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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The Worm Wars
28 juni 2022 · 57 min
In 1998, a researcher rolled out an innovative approach to education. And in 2015, Methodology Twitter had a big fight about it. Lees meer
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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 support for mass deworming?
Why Don't People Take Their Medicine? Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Dear journalists and policymakers: What you need to know about the Worm Wars
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Calorie Menu Labeling
7 juni 2022 · 50 min
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? Lees meer
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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
Changes in Calorie Content of Menu Items at Large Chain Restaurants After Implementation of Calorie Labels
Why Listing Calorie Counts on Menus Can Do More Harm Than Good
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The Trouble With Calories
24 mei 2022 · 53 min
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. Lees meer
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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?
The Nutrition Facts Label: Its History and Updates
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Diet Book Deep Dive: “How To Take 20 Pounds Off Your Man”
10 mei 2022 · 50 min
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. Lees meer
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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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Zombie Statistics Spectacular!
19 april 2022 · 58 min
Debunking some of the most widely repeated myths about fat and health. Lees meer
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Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma"
5 april 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
How a liberal journalist entrenched a libertarian fantasy. Lees meer
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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Bonus: Fad Diets
29 maart 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
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! Lees meer
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Jordan Peterson Part 2: The Moscow Diaries
15 maart 2022 · 55 min
In 2019, Jordan Peterson disappeared from public life. One year later, he re-emerged with a diagnosis, a story and no self-reflection whatsoever. Lees meer
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 Mysticism
Sunday Times: Unedited Interview Transcript
Algorithmic extremism: Examining YouTube's rabbit hole of radicalization
What is the “lite” in “alt-lite?” The discourse of white vulnerability and dominance among YouTube’s reactionaries
Exposing Jordan Peterson’s Barrage of Revisionist Falsehoods About Hitler, the Holocaust and Nazism
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Jordan Peterson Part 1: The Carnivore Diet
1 maart 2022 · 1 uur 9 min
Oops all meat: How a '50s bodybuilder, a Grateful Dead roadie and an unreadable professor accidentally launched one of America's wildest fad diets. Lees meer
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
Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy
Is Jordan Peterson the stupid man's smart person?
How dangerous is Jordan B. Peterson?
The Intellectual We Deserve
Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism
The Pronoun Warrior
Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity
The Bizarre Fad Diet Taking the Far Right by Storm
Inside the World of the 'Bitcoin Carnivores'
Human Ancestors Were Nearly All Vegetarians
My carnivore diet: what I learned from eating only beef, salt and water
The Inuit Paradox
Why Right Wingers Are Going Crazy About Meat
Owsley “The Bear” Stanley’s Active Low-Carber Forum Posts
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"Super Size Me"
15 februari 2022 · 1 uur 2 min
Aubrey thought she could swear less in this week’s episode. She was wrong. Lees meer
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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
Impressed by the demise of Supersize? Take a closer look
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"Illness Influencer" Belle Gibson
1 februari 2022 · 1 uur 6 min
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. Lees meer
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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
Cosmo: An honest account of our experience with Belle Gibson
Julia Watson's "Breakfast, School Run, Chemo"
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Diet Book Deep Dive: The Karl Lagerfeld Diet
18 januari 2022 · 53 min
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. Lees meer
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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
Karl Lagerfeld: Adele 'fat' remarks taken out of context
Karl Lagerfeld Would Marry His Cat Choupette If It Were Legal
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Fat Camps
4 januari 2022 · 59 min
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. Lees meer
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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 History of Violations
Weighty Problems by Laura Backstrom
The Actually Terrible Things that Happen at Fat Camp
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The "Sleep Loss Epidemic"
14 december 2021 · 1 uur 12 min
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. Lees meer
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 Traffic Accident Risk
Has Adult Sleep Duration Declined Over the Last 50+ Years?
Americans Are Sleeping More, If Not Necessarily Better
High-profile sleep researcher loses paper for duplication
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Vibrators
30 november 2021 · 49 min
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? Lees meer
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 before feminists rebranded them as sex toys
A Failure of Academic Quality Control: The Technology of Orgasm
How Gosnell Duncan Changed the Sex Toy Game Forever
Victorian Doctors Didn't Treat Women With Orgasms, Say Historians
(Almost) Everything You Know About the Invention of the Vibrator Is Wrong
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Is Being Fat Bad For You?
16 november 2021 · 1 uur 25 min
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. Lees meer
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
Does Body Mass Index Adequately Convey a Patient’s Mortality Risk?
The Weight 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’
Obesity And Its Relation To Health And Disease
Does Being Overweight Really Reduce Mortality?
Individual and Aggregate Years-of-life-lost Associated With Overweight and Obesity
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Diet Book Deep Dive: Angela Lansbury's "Positive Moves"
26 oktober 2021 · 57 min
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. Lees meer
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Positive Moves video on YouTube (cued up to “moving freely”)
Positive Moves book
What is Gaslighting? The 1944 film Gaslight is the best explainer.
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Rachel Hollis Part 2: Girl, Start Apologizing
12 oktober 2021 · 1 uur 7 min
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. Lees meer
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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 Plagiarizing On Her Instagram
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Rachel Hollis Part 1: Hashtag Relatable
28 september 2021 · 1 uur 12 min
Girl, stop reinforcing the status quo. Lees meer
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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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Marianne Williamson
14 september 2021 · 58 min
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. Lees meer
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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
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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
“No One Decides to Run for President Impulsively”: Marianne Williamson Explains Her Magical Thinking
Marianne Williamson has almost everything
Marianne Williamson is a controversial AIDS-crisis figure for gay men.
Into America's Spiritual Void With Marianne Williamson
Why Marianne Williamson’s most famous passage keeps getting cited as a Nelson Mandela quote
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The Great Protein Fiasco
31 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 11 min
How Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a series of nutritional misconceptions we're still living with today. Lees meer
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 Colonialism on Health and Health Services in Tanzania
Breast-Milk and the World Protein Gap
The Influence of Colonialism on Africa’s Welfare: An Anthropometric Study
Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness
Revisited: Is Subclinical Protein Deficiency A Significant Public Health Concern?
Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams’ Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast
“Milking the Third World: Humanitarianism, Capitalism and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott”
The Controversy Over Infant Formula
War on Want’s “The Baby Killer “
75 years of Kwashiorkor In Africa
The Rise and Fall of Protein Malnutrition in Global Health
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The Obesity Epidemic
17 augustus 2021 · 59 min
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? Lees meer
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Fat Politics
Killer Fat
The End of the Obesity Epidemic
Folk Devils and Moral Panics
Moral Panics
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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 Crisis Levels
Do Photographic Images of Obese Persons Influence Antifat Attitudes?
Did the American Medical Association make the correct decision classifying obesity as a disease?
What exactly is a disease?
The “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”: Health Crisis or Social Construction?
Fears of a fat planet overblown, skeptics say
An Unjust War: The Case Against the Government’s War on Obesity
Expanding Definitions of Obesity May Harm Children
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The Body Mass Index
3 augustus 2021 · 1 uur 9 min
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. Lees meer
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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 Is Bogus (NPR)
The False Science Linking Body Shape to Personality (The Atlantic)
Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms (The BMJ)
Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity (Obesity Reviews)
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School Lunches, P-Hacking and the Original "Pizzagate"
20 juli 2021 · 1 uur 17 min
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. Lees meer
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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 Presenting Anything as Significant
Death of a Veggie Salesman
The Strange, Uplifting Tale of “Joy of Cooking” Versus the Food Scientist
Moms, “Food Fears” and the Power of the Internet
The science behind Smarter Lunchrooms
You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
Energy balance measurement: when something is not better than nothing
Scientific method: Statistical errors
Effect of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act on the Nutritional Quality of Meals Selected by Students and School Lunch Participation Rates
9.67 Degrees of Deception
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The Keto Diet
6 juli 2021 · 56 min
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! Lees meer
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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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Oprah Winfrey & "John of God"
22 juni 2021 · 58 min
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. Lees meer
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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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Oprah Winfrey & The “Wagon of Fat”
8 juni 2021 · 50 min
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. Lees meer
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Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980
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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)
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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, Specialists Say (New York Times)
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Celery Juice
25 mei 2021 · 51 min
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. Lees meer
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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)
People think celery juice can protect you from COVID-19. Here's why that's categorically false. (Mama Mia)
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The Wellness to QAnon Pipeline
11 mei 2021 · 45 min
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. Lees meer
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Diet Book Deep Dive: Ed McMahon’s “Slimming Down”
27 april 2021 · 41 min
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! Lees meer
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Ed McMahon & Britney Spears on Star Search
Ed McMahon for American Family Sweepstakes
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Olestra
13 april 2021 · 1 uur 6 min
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. Lees meer
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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-based foods on feeding behavior and energy balance in humans
Effect on Body Weight of Replacing Dietary Fat with Olestra for Two or Ten Weeks in Healthy Men and Women
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Eating Disorders
30 maart 2021 · 56 min
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. Lees meer
Here's Erin's faculty page and a bunch of her research!
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Weight Watchers
16 maart 2021 · 51 min
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. Lees meer
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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
Weight Watchers on prescription: An observational study of weight change among adults referred to Weight Watchers by the NHS
The Problem With 'Fat Talk'
'Fat Talk' Compels but Carries a Cost
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The Master Cleanse
2 maart 2021 · 48 min
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! Lees meer
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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Dr. Oz
16 februari 2021 · 56 min
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. Lees meer
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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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Snake Oil
2 februari 2021 · 49 min
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. Lees meer
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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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The Biggest Loser
19 januari 2021 · 55 min
This week we dissect the content and impact of one of America's most harmful TV experiments. Lees meer
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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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Halo Top Ice Cream
5 januari 2021 · 45 min
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." Lees meer
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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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Anti-Fat Bias
24 november 2020 · 55 min
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. Lees meer
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The Twinkie Defense
17 november 2020 · 49 min
The Twinkie Defense has become a shorthand for disingenuous legal defense strategies. But was it disingenuous? (Yes, but not in the way you think!) Lees meer
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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)
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Moon Juice
10 november 2020 · 58 min
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. Lees meer
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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)
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Snackwell's Cookies
3 november 2020 · 57 min
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. Lees meer
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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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Fen Phen & Redux
27 oktober 2020 · 51 min
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.) Lees meer
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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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The President's Physical Fitness Test
20 oktober 2020 · 58 min
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) Lees meer
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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 First 50 Years
Do Fitness Test Performances Predict Students’ Attitudes And Emotions Toward Physical Education?
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What's Our Deal?
12 oktober 2020 · 57 min
Welcome to Maintenance Phase! In our first episode, we tell our origin stories and talk about some of the basic ideas behind the show. Lees meer
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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