Episode description
For nearly four decades, Americans have heard a simple story about health, longevity and obesity. This week, we learn it's a little more complicated.
Thanks to Katherine Flegal, Paul Campos, Jeff Hunger and Jason Salemi for helping us research and fact-check this episode!
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Links!
- Katherine Flegal’s “The obesity wars and the education of a researcher”
- Walter Willett's " Evidence does not support benefit of being overweight on mortality"
- Flegal’s 2005 paper
- Flegal’s 2013 article
- Willett’s 2016 meta-analysis
- The infamous 2004 CDC paper
- Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity
- Paul Campos's "The Obesity Myth"
- Walter Willett’s Food Fight
- The obesity research that blew up
- Flawed methods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta-analysis
- Does Body Mass Index Adequately Convey a Patient’s Mortality Risk?
- The Weight of Medical Authority: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge in the Obesity Epidemic
- Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?
- Commentary: On ‘public health aspects of weight control’
- Obesity And Its Relation To Health And Disease
- Does Being Overweight Really Reduce Mortality?
- Individual and Aggregate Years-of-life-lost Associated With Overweight and Obesity