#28 Fat does a body good

What if a single court case could redefine your right to refuse a medical intervention? And what happens when the government is given broad authority over what goes into your body? Leslie Manookian, President and Founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund, returns for Part Two to ...  Show more

What happens when one state passes a law that challenges the status quo around medical choice? Could it spark a movement across the country? And how are Americans really thinking about medical freedom today? Leslie Manookian, President and Founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fu ...  Show more

Dave Feldman is a senior software engineer, lipid and cholesterol investigator, and self-experimenter. He's done a ton of tests on himself over the past 4 years that are making huge waves in the nutrition world. He's helping the world rethink cholesterol and go away from the stan ...  Show more

Fat activist and Comfy Fat founder J Aprileo joins us to discuss how to find comfort in a larger body without weight loss; how improving accessibility for fat people can benefit people of all sizes; how fatphobia shows up in progressive spaces and in healthcare; the intersections ...  Show more

Fat-liberation activist Angelina Moles joins us to discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic perpetuates oppression and trauma, her shift from body positivity to fat liberation, why subtle forms of weight stigma can sometimes be more harmful than overt ones, the trauma of medical fatphob ...  Show more

Today we’re talking about fat, a delicious component of our food with a terrible reputation. Fats have been broadly associated with weight gain and heart disease until recently. A mountain of new scientific evidence suggests this is wrong and that it's not as simple as ‘all fat i ...  Show more