Is Being Fat Bad For You?

By Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes

Maintenance Phase

16/11/21·1h 25m

For nearly four decades, Americans have heard a simple story about health, longevity and obesity. This week, we learn it&aposs 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&aposs " 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&aposs "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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