#79 Obesity is NOT An Epidemic: How Fatness Came To Be Understood as a Public Health Crisis with Abigail Saguy, PhD., UCLA Professor

Get ready to have your mind blown with this episode!

I interview renowned author and sociologist, Abigal Saguy, PhD. and professor at UCLA. She wrote the book "What's Wrong with Fat?" a book that explains how we came to view fatness as a public health crisis and explores the implications of this view. Through her research she found that public discussions of the "obesity crisis" do more harm than good, leading to bullying, weight-based discrimination, and misdiagnoses. In this episode, she explains the cultural, political & capitalistic reasons why fatness is now seen as pathological when it used to be seen as a sign of good health. If you have ever wondered how our society became so obsessed with weight- this episode is for you!

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