Last month the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new set of guidelines for "childhood obesity." We have some comments.

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• The 2023 American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines 
• The 2007 guidelines 
• Pros and cons of bariatric surgery in adolescents 
• Serious Issues With the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines For Higher-Weight Children and Adolescents 
• Semaglutide treatment for obesity in teenagers: a plain language summary of the STEP TEENS research study 
• Patients’ views of long-term results of bariatric surgery for super-obesity: sustained effects, but continuing struggles 
• Long-Term Outcomes After Bariatric Surgery 
• Suicidal thoughts and behaviors in adolescents who underwent bariatric surgery 

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History should make you feel weird and so, apparently, should diet books.

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• Elizabeth Takes Off
• Elizabeth: The Life of Elizabeth Taylor
• Elizabeth Taylor: Diet Tips on How to Become a Size 6
• Just Look at Her Now
• Elizabeth Taylor: Born to the Purple
• Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Interview 
• Elizabeth Taylor’s Glorious Excess
• Elizabeth Taylor’s Astonishing Health History
• Elizabeth Taylor’s Cook Not To Blame

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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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• Bookshop.org
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• Black Pearl Books
• Amazon
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• Book Depository
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• Libro.fm (audiobook)

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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
• What’s Bad about Wellness? 

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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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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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“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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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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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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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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