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#1631 Body Neutrality in the World of Ozempic: Reassessing Weight, Body Positivity, Physical and Mental Health, and even the Economics of Body Size


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Air Date 5/24/2024

Assessing the impacts of new diet drugs on physical and mental health in the context of our unhealthy food system and societal fat phobia

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KEY POINTS

KP 1: The world after Ozempic - The Gray Area - Air Date 5-13-24

KP 2: The Ozempic economy - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-23-24

KP 3: Have the new weight-loss drugs changed what it means to be body positive - Consider This - Air Date 5-13-24

KP 5: Body Neutrality - What The Actual Fork Podcast - Air Date 8-11-23

KP 6: Examining America's Unhealthy Obsession With Fitness w. Natalia Mehlman Petrzela - The Majority Report - Air Date 6-24-23

KP 7: What Ozempic can't fix - Today, Explained - Air Date 2-26-34

 

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(56:10) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On the metaphor of the new show format

(1:01:22) DEEPER DIVE A: BUSINESS OF DESIRE

A1: Examining America's Unhealthy Obsession... Part 2

A2: The Ozempic economy Part 2

A3: The world after... Part 4

(1:20:48) DEEPER DIVE B: BIAS AND RISK

B1: What Ozempic can't fix Part 2

B2: The world after... Part 5

B3: What Ozempic can't fix Part 3

(1:31:00) DEEPER DIVE C: BODY NEUTRALITY

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Description: Overhead photo of a bunch of Ozempic pens in a plastic pharmacy basket. 

Credit: "Bundle of Ozempic Pens" by Chemist4U, Flickr | License: CC BY-SA 2.0 | Changes: Cropped

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