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Maintenance Phase · November 24, 2020 · 55m
Anti-Fat Bias
The pilot episode: Aubrey and Michael lay the foundation — anti-fat bias is not just mean, it's medically harmful. Fat patients receive worse care, are diagnosed later, and die younger not because of their weight but because of how doctors treat them.
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Gordon presents evidence that fat patients delay seeking medical care due to past mistreatment, receive fewer diagnostic tests, and have symptoms dismissed as 'just lose weight' — creating a healthcare environment that produces worse outcomes independent of body weight.
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Hobbes presents the meta-analytic evidence: 95% of intentional weight loss is regained within 5 years, and the process of weight cycling (yo-yo dieting) may be more harmful than stable higher weight.
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