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The BMI Lie (podcast from Thinsanity Audiobook) The Glenn Mackintosh Show - A Health Psychology Podcast
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- Health & Fitness
In this special excerpt from the Thinsanity audiobook, I share the surprising truth about the Body Mass Index, from its unexpected origins to its unethical manipulation by big business to turn a profit. I then explore a re-interpretation of BMI categories based on actual science (not paid-for/company sponsored science), and the possibility that we’re all (finally) ready to be free of it …
If you’d like to learn more about the new way forward that we are all ready for that I talk about at the end of the podcast, I’d like to invite you to download a copy of the audiobook for yourself!
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Audible*: https://bit.ly/2HhWj8d
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Apple Books: https://apple.co/35gL08x
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Kobo: https://bit.ly/2HdgGUy
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Google Play: https://bit.ly/3oOXflB
*Australian link provided. To purchase Thinsanity in your area, please go to your local Audible website and search ‘Thinsanity’!
Selected Links from Podcast:
Podcast page (showing diagrams): https://bit.ly/3fv2mU3
Supplementary materials from audiobook: https://bit.ly/369Hs9O
In this special excerpt from the Thinsanity audiobook, I share the surprising truth about the Body Mass Index, from its unexpected origins to its unethical manipulation by big business to turn a profit. I then explore a re-interpretation of BMI categories based on actual science (not paid-for/company sponsored science), and the possibility that we’re all (finally) ready to be free of it …
If you’d like to learn more about the new way forward that we are all ready for that I talk about at the end of the podcast, I’d like to invite you to download a copy of the audiobook for yourself!
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Audible*: https://bit.ly/2HhWj8d
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Apple Books: https://apple.co/35gL08x
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Kobo: https://bit.ly/2HdgGUy
Order Thinsanity audiobook on Google Play: https://bit.ly/3oOXflB
*Australian link provided. To purchase Thinsanity in your area, please go to your local Audible website and search ‘Thinsanity’!
Selected Links from Podcast:
Podcast page (showing diagrams): https://bit.ly/3fv2mU3
Supplementary materials from audiobook: https://bit.ly/369Hs9O
26 min