In her new book You Just Need To Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Aubrey Gordon tackles the biases and myths that she says keeps fat people on the margins of society.
Aubrey Gordon takes on anti-fatness, the beliefs and institutional policies that keep fat people on the margins.Every January, it seems the topics of weight and size come up over and over. New Year's Resolutions to go to the gym, to eat differently, to lose weight. They're the kind of conversations that writer and podcast host Aubrey Gordon knows all too well, ones that she says are rooted in anti-fatness.
Along with that bias comes a whole lot of myths about fat people, many of which Gordon debunks in her new bookShe talked to NPR about some of these myths, the many ways they affect fat people and the importance of the word"fat" as a neutral descriptor. [The BMI] doesn't distinguish between fat or muscle or any of that stuff. And that's in white men. And its reliability goes down from there. So what researchers have found is that it may actually actively be harming the health of people of color and black folks and indigenous folks for whom it was never designed and was never tested or meaningfully adjusted for. It was also never designed, tested or adjusted for women.
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