Podcast HackBody Mass IndexBy Maintenance Phase, Aubrey Gordon, Michael Hobbes
In a Nutshell
In this August 2021 episode of the Maintenance Phase podcast, hosts Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes investigate the history of the body mass index and its roots in fatphobia.
Favorite Quote
What we have is a history full of people who didn't think they were doing anything discriminatory and created one of the wildest, worst, and most ubiquitous pieces of science.
Aubrey Gordon
Introduction
Anyone who has had a routine health check at a doctor's office in the last thirty years has encountered the body mass index, or BMI.
The BMI measures the ratio between a person's weight and height and is used by the medical community to assess a patient's health.
Hosted by writer Aubrey Gordon and journalist Michael Hobbes, Maintenance Phase seeks to debunk myths around weight loss.
Each episode of the podcast looks into the scientific research – or lack thereof – around popular diet trends and gets to the root of fatphobic messaging in the wellness community.
In this August 2021 episode, Gordon and Hobbes dive into the discriminatory history of the BMI.
Here are the 3 key insights from this Hack
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