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Season 1 - Episode 6: This Is Because I’m Fat, Right?

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Episode 6: "This Is Because I'm Fat, Right?"

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Medical Research

  • 7 Ways to Uproot Your Anti-Fat Bias by Aubrey Gordon 
  • Tomiyama, A., Carr, D., Granberg, E. et al. How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health. BMC Med 16, 123 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-018-1116-5
  • Phelan SM, Burgess DJ, Puhl RM, et al. The adverse effect of weight stigma on the well-being of medical students with overweight or obesity: findings from a national survey. J Gen Intern Med. 2015;30(9):1251–8.
  • First Do No Harm: stories of fat predjudice in healthcare
  • When Doctors Body Shame Their Patients – It’s a fricking Cosmo article, but the anecdotes are powerful. 
  • Haqq AM, Kebbe M, Tan Q, Manco M, Salas XR. Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity. Child Obes. 2021 Jun;17(4):229-240. doi: 10.1089/chi.2021.0003. Epub 2021 Mar 29. PMID: 33780639; PMCID: PMC8147499.
  • Incollingo Rodriguez, A.C., Smieszek, S.M., Nippert, K.E. et al. Pregnant and postpartum women’s experiences of weight stigma in healthcare. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 20, 499 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03202-5
  • Ives GC, Fein LA, Finch L, Sluiter EC, Lane M, Kuzon WM, Salgado CJ. Evaluation of BMI as a Risk Factor for Complications following Gender-affirming Penile Inversion Vaginoplasty. Plast Reconstr Surg Glob Open. 2019 Mar 13;7(3):e2097. doi: 10.1097/GOX.0000000000002097. PMID: 31044103; PMCID: PMC6467628.
  • https://naafa.org/community-voices/fat-self-care
  • Maintenance Phase Podcast Episode on the BMI: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1411126?client_source=large_player&iframe=true&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzsprout.com%2F1411126%2Fpodcast%2Fembed#

    • Historical Sources

     

    Altman, Claire E., Jennifer Van Hook, and Jonathan Gonzalez. “Becoming Overweight without Gaining a Pound: Weight Evaluations and the Social Integration of Mexicans in the United States.” International Migration Review 51, no. 1 (Spring 2017): 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/imre.12220.

    Parr, Jessica M. “Obesity and the Emergence of Mutual Aid Groups for Weight Loss in the Post-War United States.” Social History of Medicine 27, no. 4 (2014): 768–88. https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hku020.

    Rasmussen, Nicolas. “Downsizing Obesity: On Ancel Keys, the Origins of BMI, and the Neglect of Excess Weight as a Health Hazard in the United States from the 1950s to 1970s.” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 55, no. 4 (October 2019): 299–318. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.21991.

    Strings, Sabrina. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. New York: New York University Press, 2019.



    Additional Resources:

    • Thebodyisnotanapology.com
  • https://www.iamannachapman.com/fat-selfcare-tips
  • https://naafa.org/
  • https://asdah.org/health-at-every-size-haes-approach/
  • https://theadipositivityproject.zenfolio.com/about.html
  • http://stacybias.net/
  • https://www.aubreygordon.net/
  • https://nolose.org/
  • http://www.kellidunham.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/YOU-DONT-HAVE-TO-LOVE-YOUR-BODY-TO-TAKE-CARE-OF-IT-FOR-DOWNLOAD.pdf
  • https://www.huffpost.com/entry/what-to-do-about-fat-shaming-doctors_n_5ba9604ee4b0181540dfd54d
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