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Maintenance Phase MP After Dark
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4.8 • 11.4K Ratings
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Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.
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Workplace Wellness Mailbag!
This month we're digging into some of the 700 (!) personal stories you shared about the worst, wackiest and weirdest wellness programs at your jobs. You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll want to punch a 19-year-old's boss!
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“Glorifying Obesity” And Other Myths About Fat People
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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The 2022 Grifties!
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Mike and Aubrey yell about wellness grifters! In our second annual Grifties, we're honoring (?) the best, worst and weirdest of wellness and weight loss in 2022. We're also bestowing our first-ever LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD on a grifter for the ages. And we're answering a truly groundbreaking question: "what if I told you we could turn regular food ... into squares?"
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Workplace Wellness
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 Scam2013 Rand ReportWorkplace Wellness Produces No Savings\Workplace Wellbeing Is a ScamEmployers should disband employee weight control programsUsing Incentives in Workplace Wellness ProgramsCoerced into HealthCurrent Trends in Reducing Cardiovascular Risk Factors in the USThe effectiveness of worksite nutrition and physical activity interventions for controlling employee overweightManaging Manifest Diseases, But Not Health Risks, Saved PepsiCo Money Over Seven YearsThe Dubious Empirical and Legal Foundations of Workplace Wellness ProgramsToward A Critical Theory of Corporate WellnessThe development and growth of employer-provided health insuranceThe Ideological Construction Of RiskWellness Incentives In The WorkplaceA Fatter Butt Equals a Skinnier WalletThe Outcomes, Economics, and Ethics of the Workplace Wellness IndustryWhat’s Bad about Wellness? Support the show -
Podcast Payola And The Worst Thing We've Ever Tasted
For this month's bonus episode we're talking about The Podcast Payola Scandal and taste-testing some of the wellness foods advertised heavily on podcasts — including the worst thing we've tried so far.
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The Food Pyramid
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 AgnsäterRounding Out the Food PyramidFood Lobbies, The Food Pyramid, and US Nutrition PolicyThe Fattening: Reassessing The Food PyramidCatering to Cows and ConsumersUS Drops New Food ChartAre Cattlemen Now Guarding the Hen House?Testing of the Food Pyramid Comes Full CircleTopping the Food PyramidFood Pyramid Replaced By 'MyPlate'Is The Food Pyramid Obsolete?Coca-Cola Funds Scientists to Shift BlameExperts Say Lobbying Skewed the US Dietary GuidelinesFood Politics
Thanks to Doctor Dreamchip for our lovely theme song!
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Customer Reviews
Fantastic except for Michael Hobbes micro aggressions
This podcast is truly gold, filled with interesting research, theory, and chemistry between the hosts. Aubrey Gordon does an outstandingly charismatic job. Michael Hobbes has a lot of charming moments, but frequently reveals his biases throughout. He’ll quickly say things like “fat people do need to lose weight” and refer to straight sized people in ways he never applies to the fat people he talks about. He labels thin people hot, attractive, normal sized, people who look good etc. instead of neutral terms like slender or straight sized. It says a lot that even while decrying the fatphobia of the people he discusses, he reveals a tacit agreement with them. He frequently makes it clear that he barely has a rudimentary understanding of how to talk about race, (ex: referring to white women simply as “women” and women of color as “other people” only offering commentary like “oh yeah, that’s not great” when racism comes up) which is shocking considering Aubrey’s stellar politic and the nature of the show. It’s the only point of frustration that keeps cropping up throughout an otherwise lovely breath of fresh air. Over time, it’s gotten progressively more tiring and grating to hear him consistently make weird comments that never seem to get better. Not to mention the ways he slights Aubrey from time to time. Subtly negging her new book, treating Aubrey like an afterthought when Sarah Marshall was a guest, having nothing to say when Aubrey opens up about past traumas. It’s just like WHY IS HE HERE?? Please get another fat co-host bc he is not it. Aubrey deserves better.
ONE-STAR reviewers are MISSING THE ENTIRE POINT
90% of people who lose weight regain ALL OF IT. We don’t actually know how to help people lose weight and keep it off. Everything else is said with that understanding. If you cannot comprehend that, you are perpetuating the myth of personal responsibility and you are part of the problem.
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