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- Tessa The Eating Disorder Helpline Bot Is Giving Weight Loss Advice With Sharon MaxwellIn this episode I'm speaking with Sharon Maxwell, an outraged fat activist with lived experience of a restrictive eating disorder. She's sharing an appalling story about the goings on at NEDA, an American eating disorders organisation. Not only did NEDA sack their eating disorders helpline staff after they attempted to unionise, they replaced said staff with a bot called Tessa, who immediately began dishing out weight loss tips to callers. Sharon's story has to be heard - our eating disorders organisations have become deeply infected with the weight loss industry, and this needs to STOP!
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33 min - Flying On Planes & Buying Clothes Shouldn't Be So Hard With Ample FolkMy guest this week is the fabulous Holly Richards from Ample Folk, and she has not one but TWO diet culture tirades to share! As someone who's always been larger bodied, Holly is well acquainted with how tough it can be to travel on planes, and on a recent flight purchased two seats to make sure she was comfortable. Jetstar's treatment of her proves that fatphobia is alive and well, but she took no sh*t! They didn't know who they were dealing with, because Holly is also unmasking the exclusionary and outrageous tactics of the Australian clothing industry on as well! There is no end to Holly's rage or her awesomeness! Listen now!
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26 min - The EDIT Collaboration: Obesity Researchers Are Now Eating Disorder ExpertsHellbent on protecting their careers in eradicating fat people, a group of Australian obesity researchers have snaffled $600k in government funded research money for a global research 'collaboration' to 'study' how often their ineffective weight loss programs cause eating disorders. Join me and my absolutely appalled guest Chevese Turner as we unpack this extremely dark development in the eating disorder world. The weight loss industry must be PREVENTED from wreaking further havoc in people's lives. Putting them in charge of studying eating disorder risk is like putting the gambling industry in charge of studying problem gambling. This episode will get your blood boiling!
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50 min - Celebrity Weight Loss AmbassadorsThe sparkling fantasy world of the Celebrity Weight Loss Ambassador is unmasked in this episode of All Fired Up! Jenny Craig have a long list of victims, including Magda Suzbanski, Rebel Wilson, Scary Spice, Barry Humphries, Brendan Fevola & Casey Donovan. I've dug up the dirt and reveal the the grubby underbelly of these deals with the devil!
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39 min - A Walk Down Memory Lane With Jenny Craig Part 2In Part 2 of our walk down memory lane with Janny Craig, we're time warping back to the 1990's, a period in which the weight loss industry's chickens came home to roost. We're talking class action lawsuits, scientific skewering and much needed industry wide regulation of its outrageous advertising claims. Ever wondered why all the weight loss ads have "results not typical" in tiny writing at the bottom of the screen? We have Jenny and her snake oil salesman cronies to thank for that. Don't miss this schadenfreude-filled anti-diet episode!
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30 min - A Walk Down Memory Lane With Jenny Craig Part 1After 40 years of peddling expensive and ineffective diet plans, Jenny Craig has finally gone broke. A behemouth of the weight loss industry during the second half of the 20th century, Jenny Craig and companies like them are responsible for mastering the art of selling a product that doesn't work, blaming its customers for their 'failure' and then raking in 'repeat business' . Do not miss this episode of All Fired Up, where we take a trip down memory lane with Jenny Craig, straight from the horse's mouth. We're reading through her autobiography and fact checking her highly sanitised version of 'the truth'. It's a real eye opener!
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32 min - Weight Loss Drugs for KidsThe FDA have approved Novo Nordisk's weight loss drugs, Saxenda and Wegovy, for use in teenagers. But how effective are they, and what are the potential consequences of normalising the use of injectable drugs for weight loss in kids as young as 12? Join Louise as she takes us through the Novo Nordisk funded clinical trials. Are these drugs really the magic pill they're touted to be? Or are we taking unjustified risks in the name of fat eradication?
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42 min - Weight Loss Drugs Part 2: Saxenda and WegovyPart 2 of our series on weight loss drugs takes us deep into the inner workings of Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, who are hell bent on world domination of the lucrative "o*e$ity market". For years, the entire field of medicine has been professionally fluffed by Novo's "training programs" and media hype is next level. But who are Novo Nordisk, what are they selling, and can we trust them? Join me and my fierce and fabulous guests Ragen Chastain and Dr Fi Willer as we investigate the science behind the hype, and expose the truth behind their latest 'blockbuster' drugs, Saxenda and Wegovy. Do not miss!!!
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1 hr 13 min - Weight Loss Drugs Part OneBig pharma are running a MASSIVE global marketing campaign, trying to convince us that weight loss drugs are A Good Idea. I'm looking at you, Novo Nordisk! Join me and my extremely outraged guests Dr Fiona Willer & Ragen Chastain, as we revisit the dastardly history of weight loss medications. Past experience has brutally demonstrated that far from improving human 'health', these drugs have proven to be (spectacularly profitable) human disasters - most of them have been removed from the market for harming or killing people. Big pharma cares about profits, not lives. Have we learned anything from the sins of the past? Frighteningly, it seems like history is about to repeat. Don't believe the hype - do not miss this two part deep dive into the devious and deadly world of weight loss drugs!
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1 hr 6 min - Noom With Dr Alexis ConasonLike flies at a picnic, weight loss app Noom's relentless advertising is crawling all over our online spaces. AND they're SHAMELESSLY co-opting our powerful anti-diet movement! AND they're claiming that 'psychology' is the key to 'long term weight loss!' AND they're selling a particularly shitty diet! AND they're targeting vulnerable people including those with eating disorders! HOW VERY DARE THEY! I'm so incandescent with fury that I've coined a new term: NOOM-RAGE!! Join me on the latest ep of the All Fired Up podcast with my equally outraged guest Dr Alexis Conason @theantidietplan. She is also EXTREMELY NOT HAPPY. Grab a stiff drink (or a nice cuppatea) & gird your loins as we EVISCERATE this DISGUSTING company in a rip-snorter of an episode! Did someone say class action lawsuit??
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About All Fired Up
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Welcome to the All Fired Up podcast, with your host Louise Adams! Louise is by nature a mild mannered clinical psychologist, but her alter ego – a FIERCE and fearless anti-diet crusader – is…
taking over! Louise specialises in helping people recover from disordered eating, and she’s COMPLETELY OVER trying to help people when the culture we live in is utterly sick, toxic, and screwed up when it comes to food, exercise, health, and body size. Louise cannot for a second longer take the rampant injustice of a society obsessed with thinness and health. She can’t STAND how fat people are being treated like second class citizens. She is LIVID about the way weight science is being sold to make a buck off human misery. And she’s SO OVER the diet bulls**t that she’s shelved her own introversion and started a podcast! So welcome to All Fired Up!, where Louise delves deeply into diet culture and blows it the hell up! Each week we’ll meet brave and fascinating anti-diet warriors who are also fighting for equality, justice, and freedom. Join us, and get All Fired Up! about building a better world!
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