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Ep 3. How we got here: BMI meets death
Unpacking Weight Science
English - October 30, 2018 03:57 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBScience Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Ep 2: Demystifying Assumptions, De-myth-defying Assumptions
Next Episode: Ep 4: Weight Bias, Stigma and Discrimination
A history of the development of the BMI (including how 'obesity' ended up on child growth charts), how we discovered there was a relationship with weight and death, and how a few powerful men gifted us the weight-centrism we have today.
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