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Episode 148 - Biggest Scammers in the Diet Industry
Who has personally benefitted the most from our obsession with thinness? Which individuals are the biggest diet hucksters? From the 1800s right up to the present day I have a list of those who have scammed us the most and in the process line their pockets. TW: I talk about calories, specific diets, and mentions of eating disorders (specifically machine-assisted b*limia).
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The Men Who Made Us Thin:
Episode 1: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cuv9f
Episode 2: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cuvbl
Episode 3: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cuve4
Episode 4: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2cuvfq
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/W._Philip_T._James
https://elemental.medium.com/the-bizarre-and-racist-history-of-the-bmi-7d8dc2aa33bb
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bariatric_surgery
https://www.vice.com/en/article/dpk4qm/dean-kamen-inventor-of-the-segway-made-a-bulimia-machine
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2014/06/17/dr-oz-senate-panel-weight-scams/10701067/
https://danceswithfat.org/2020/03/10/noom-nothing-new-everything-harmful/
https://www.noom.com/research/publications/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27819345/
National Institutes of Health: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/National_Institutes_of_Health
Dances With Fat: https://danceswithfat.org/2020/02/21/i-cant-believe-people-are-still-pushing-calories-in-calories-out/
Paul Brunton & Richard Hall: https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2002030341A1/en
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