Maintenance Phase

We're taking a much-needed break this week so to tide you over here is one of our bonus episodes!

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

The closing argument of our two-part Oprahsode starts in a Texas courtroom, wanders through some British slaughterhouses and ends with an emu. 

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Links!

• "How the Cows Turned Mad" by Maxime Schwartz
• “Deadly Feasts” by Richard Rhodes 
• "Mad Cow USA"
• UK Parliamentary inquiry
• How The West Was Won Over
• Texas Cattle Feeders v. Oprah Winfrey: The First Major Test of the “Veggie Libel Law”
• Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials
• The Unconstitutionality Of Iowa's Proposed Agricultural Food Products Act And Similar Veggie Libel Laws
• Appeal
• Original Lawsuit
• Food Safety Vs. Promotion Of Industry: Can The USDA Protect Americans From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?
• Apocalypse Cow
• Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
• Mad Cow congressional hearing
• GAO report
• The Harvard Risk Assessment

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

On April 16, 1996, Oprah Winfrey did a show about mad cow disease. Six weeks later, a couple of Texas cattlemen had a cow (sorry).

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Links!

• Original Lawsuit
• Appeal
• How Oprah Got Sued for Dissing a Burger
• Two Degrees of Speech Protection 
• Texas Cattle Feeders v. Oprah Winfrey: The First Major Test of the “Veggie Libel Law”
• Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials
• Howard Lyman talk
• The Unconstitutionality Of Iowa's Proposed Agricultural Food Products Act And Similar Veggie Libel Laws
• How the Cows Turned Mad
• Food Safety Vs. Promotion Of Industry: Can The USDA Protect Americans From Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy?
• Apocalypse Cow
• GAO report
• A is for Apple, Alar, and ... Alarmist?
• Alar Five Years Later
• Auvil v. CBS 60 Minutes
• Alar and Apples: Newspaper Coverage of a Major Risk Issue.

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

This week we're digging into the weird  history of an omnipresent fitness goal. Episode comes free with a happy meal.

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Links!

• 10,000 Steps: A Brief History
• Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?
• A Japanese first-mover in the fitness wearables race
• Counting Every Step You Take
• When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
• McDonald's Enlists Trainer To Help Sell Its New Meal
• Get happy with McDonald's Go Active Happy Meal for adults
• McDonald's Stepometer
• McDonald's pushing salads and pedometers
• The fight for healthier McDonald's Happy Meals
• Step-It Canadian TV ad 
• McDonald's serves up Happy Meals for grow-ups
• McDonald's removes fitness tracker from Happy Meals
• A Very Serious Review of McDonald’s Flesh-Burning Fitness Tracker
• McDonald’s quietly ended controversial program that was making parents and teachers uncomfortable
• Watch your step: why the 10,000 daily goal is built on bad science
• When does wearing a fitness tracker do more harm than good?
• Why Counting Your Steps Could Make You Unhappier
• How many steps are enough? 

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

This week we're tackling three big ideas about sugar: It causes hyperactivity in kids, it's as addictive as cocaine and it raises blood sugar in universal, predictably spiky ways. 

Thanks to David Johnston for helping us with sources for this week’s episode!

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Links!

• Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole Smith
• Sugar Rush: Science, Politics and the Demonisation of Fatness by Karen Throsby
• Is sugar really as addictive as cocaine? Scientists row over effect on body and brain
• Sugar Is Not the Enemy
• Dr. Benjamin F. Feingold, Controversial Pediatrician
• Is There Such a Thing as a ‘Sugar High’?
• Effects of Diets High in Sucrose or Aspartame on The Behavior and Cognitive Performance of Children
• Sugar and the Hyperactive Child
• Some popular diets are based on this carb-rating scale. Here’s why it could be misleading.
• Glycemic Index: History and Clinical Application
• Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load 
• Low glycaemic index or low glycaemic load diets for overweight and obesity
• What is the glycaemic index
• Don't Play a Numbers Game, Experts Say, Just Eat Your Vegetables
• Sugar addiction: the state of the science

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

A viral documentary says a "whole foods plant-based diet" will prevent heart disease and cure cancer. But once we look into the MEAT of the matter will we find factual CREAM of the crop or will we  cry FOWL? (we're so sorry)

Thanks to Katherine Flegal for helping Mike with this episode!

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Links!

• Health effects associated with consumption of unprocessed red meat: a Burden of Proof study
• Unprocessed Red Meat and Processed Meat Consumption: Dietary Guideline Recommendations From the Nutritional Recommendations (NutriRECS) Consortium
• Present status of the aflatoxin situation in the Philippines
• The role of natural consequences in the changing death patterns
• Dietary Protein and Amino Acids in Vegetarian Diets—A Review
• Quality of Plant-Based Diet and Risk of Total, Ischemic, and Hemorrhagic Stroke
• Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial
• Do We Really Know What Makes Us Healthy?
• Observational evidence does not necessarily imply causation
• The Problem with Observational Studies (Epidemiology)
• Vegetarian Diet Patterns and Chronic Disease Risk: What We Know and What We Don’t
• The rise, the fall and the renaissance of vitamin E

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

Aubrey tells Mike about the diet that took over New York City (and its bathrooms).

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's book
• Listen to Mike's other podcast

Links!

• F-Factor drama timeline
• What Is the F-Factor Diet, and Is it Safe?
• Tanya Zuckerbrot Sets a Weight-Loss Example
• What Is the F-Factor Diet? Here’s What You Need to Know
• F-Factor Under Fire After TONS Of Women Come Forward
• Tanya Zuckerbrot and an Instagram Crusade Against the F-Factor Diet
• Dietary fiber and health outcomes: an umbrella review
• Closing America’s Fiber Intake Gap
• F-Factor has sent legal threats and deleted Instagram comments
• F-Factor Diet Allegations: What Dietitians Want You To Know
• Correcting the Record
• Unpacking the F-Factor Diet Drama
• Insider rundown of symptoms 
• Tanya Zuckerbrot addresses health concerns
• Insider rundown of workplace issues 
• Tanya Zuckerbrot Files Lawsuit Over F-Factor Diet Criticism on Instagram
• Tanya Zuckerbrot sues Emily Gellis in new defamation suit
• In a Lawsuit, Eight Women Claim the F-Factor Diet Made Them Sick
• Submit concerns to F-Factor

Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!

Support the show

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

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's new book
• Listen to Mike's new podcast

Links!

• 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 

Support the show

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

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's new book
• Listen to Mike's new podcast

Links!

• 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

Support the show

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.

Support us:

• Hear bonus episodes on Patreon
• Donate on PayPal
• Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more
• Buy Aubrey's new book
• Listen to Mike's new podcast

Preorder Aubrey's book at your favorite bookstore or here:

• Bookshop.org
• Powell's Books
• Blackstone Books
• Black Pearl Books
• Amazon
• Barnes & Noble
• Book Depository
• Audible (audiobook)
• Libro.fm (audiobook)

Support the show