For nearly four decades, Americans have heard a simple story about health, longevity and obesity. This week, we learn it&apos;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!  Support us:<ul><li><a href='https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase'>Hear bonus episodes on Patreon</a></li><li><a href='https://paypal.me/maintenancephase'>Donate on PayPal</a></li><li><a href='http://tee.pub/lic/maintenancephase'>Get Maintenance Phase T-shirts, stickers and more</a></li></ul> Links!<ul><li><a href='file://localhost/The%20obesity%20wars%20and%20the%20education%20of%20a%20researcher/%20A%20personal%20account'>Katherine Flegal’s “The obesity wars and the education of a researcher”</a></li><li><a href='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34298041/'>Walter Willett&apos;s &quot; Evidence does not support benefit of being overweight on mortality&quot;</a></li><li><a href='Excess%2520Deaths%2520Associated%2520With%2520Underweight,%2520Overweight,%2520and%2520Obesity'>Flegal’s 2005 paper</a></li><li><a href='Association%2520of%2520All-Cause%2520Mortality%2520With%2520Overweight%2520and%2520Obesity%2520Using%2520Standard%2520Body%2520Mass%2520Index%2520Categories%2520A%2520Systematic%2520Review%2520and%2520Meta-analysis'>Flegal’s 2013 article</a></li><li><a href='https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)30175-1/fulltext'>Willett’s 2016 meta-analysis</a></li><li><a href='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/195748'>The infamous 2004 CDC paper</a></li><li><a href='https://books.google.com/books/about/Fat.html?id=DqruAAAAMAAJ&amp;source=kp_book_description'>Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity</a></li><li><a href='https://books.google.de/books?id=AtTl2A3IlJIC&amp;hl=de&amp;source=gbs_book_other_versions'>Paul Campos&apos;s &quot;The Obesity Myth&quot;</a></li><li><a href='https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2013/07/27/what-eat-harvard-walter-willett-thinks-has-answers/5WL3MIVdzHCN2ypfpFB6WP/story.html'>Walter Willett’s Food Fight</a>           </li><li><a href='https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/16/opinion/obesity-research-that-blew-up/'>The obesity research that blew up</a></li><li><a href='https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jcsm.12378'>Flawed methods and inappropriate conclusions for health policy on overweight and obesity: The Global BMI Mortality Collaboration meta-analysis</a></li><li><a href='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/1555106'>Does Body Mass Index Adequately Convey a Patient’s Mortality Risk?</a></li><li><a href='https://escholarship.org/content/qt9nt7h69p/qt9nt7h69p_noSplash_ec9baa432193ecfb6f0c667ff77b28d8.pdf'>The Weight of Medical Authority: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge in the Obesity Epidemic</a></li><li><a href='https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/obesity-an-overblown-epidemic-2006-12/'>Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?</a> </li><li><a href='https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/35/1/12/849851'>Commentary: On ‘public health aspects of weight control’</a></li><li><a href='https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/312584'>Obesity And Its Relation To Health And Disease</a></li><li><a href='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806201/'>Does Being Overweight Really Reduce Mortality?</a></li><li><a href='https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19680230/'>Individual and Aggregate Years-of-life-lost Associated With Overweight and Obesity</a></li></ul><a rel="payment" href="https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase">Support the show</a> (https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase)

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