
Ep 3. How we got here: BMI meets death
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. Use the Unpacking Weight Science Podcast as professional development! For the supporting materials, including learning goals and self-test quiz, see www.unpackingweightscience.com
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30 Oct 2018
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Article reading: 'What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology'
This article is a really important discussion of the issues around how we refer to different body types. Because not everyone has the time, opportunity or ability to sit and read journal articles, I've done an audio recording for you. Enjoy :-) The article details are: Meadows, Angela, and Sigrún Daníelsdóttir. "What's in a word? On weight stigma and terminology." Frontiers in psychology 7 (2016): 1527. Available open access here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01527/full Want more of these as soon as they're published? Check out https://www.patreon.com/UnpackingWeightScience
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26 Feb 2019
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Ep 5 Anatomy of a weight loss paper
A research paper is a piece of persuasive writing. This episode breaks down how all the pieces fit together, the expected rhetoric of weight loss research, common research methods that guarantee statistical significance at the cost of clinical practicalities, how to spot hyperbole, and how the way we usually read research papers leaves us at the mercy of the authors biases. Find supporting materials at www.unpackingweightscience.com and subscribe to the Unpacking Weight Science Patreon to access all newer episodes immediately: https://www.patreon.com/UnpackingWeightScience
28mins
25 Jan 2019
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Ep 4: Weight Bias, Stigma and Discrimination
This episode is an introduction and defines the terms, discusses their impact on healthcare, society and the lives of the people who are impacted by weight-centrism. For the supporting materials including learning outcomes, further reading and self-test quiz, see www.unpackingweightscience.com
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30 Oct 2018
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This episode discusses the two main myths that perpetuate weight loss encouragement as well as the terms, weight centric, weight neutral, lifestyle intervention and concern troll. For supporting materials for this episode including show notes, further reading and the quiz, see www.unpackingweightscience.com.
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