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Included in this episode: 

• A calorie deficit is not a cure for obesity. 
• How "you're not broken" can be invalidating and dismissive of real chronic conditions if we aren't careful. 
• Epidemiology and epigenetics. 
• Facts about obesity and morbid obesity. 
• All of the factors that go into personalized solutions for managing chronic illnesses like obesity. 
• The morality complex of body weight on the rise. 
• The history of bodily righteousness in America. 
• The nuances of justification of racial hierarchies in the stigmatization of  fatness. 
• Structural racism and how historic inequities affect communities today. 
• Medical bias and discrimination towards women. 
• Fasting as "spiritual discipline" and "Holy Anorexia" in the Renaissance period. 
• How faith based solutions for weight are based in shame and obedience. 
• The reality that there is a higher risk of obesity if a person connects religion to their weight. 

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