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Episode 128 - The Benefits of Being Fat!

We hear so often how awful fatness is and how fat people are all going to imminently die and being fat is the worst thing ever…but is it? Are there any good sides to fatness? What about the health and mortality of fat people? Are we in fact, at an advantage? In this episode I share 28 benefits of being fat, how many can you think of? TW: brief mention of O Words.

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“Ob*se” patients who fall have less injury severity but a longer hospital stay than “normal-weight” patients: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700636/

Why I Only Want to Have Sex with Fat Bodies: By Gina Tonic: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/sex/a32823682/fat-sex/

The Weight of Medical Authority: The Making and Unmaking of Knowledge in the Obesity Epidemic, Rogers, Julia: https://www.proquest.com/openview/39a652352f0a180b82a29539ccd72f4e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750

Study: “Overw*ight” People Live Longer - Association of All-Cause Mortality With Overweight and Obesity Using Standard Body Mass Index Categories A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1555137

Rethinking “Ob*sity”: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327475628_Rethinking_Obesity by Paul Ernsberger

Risk Factors for Hospitalization, Mechanical Ventilation, or Death Among 10 131 US Veterans With SARS-CoV-2 Infection: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2770946?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Weight-Stigma+Awareness+About+COVID-19%20-%204524753

Study – Body Size NOT a COVID-19 Risk Factor: https://danceswithfat.org/2020/10/05/study-body-size-not-a-covid-19-risk-factor/

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Fat Dr post (page since deleted): https://www.instagram.com/p/CeRCmdRIFIg/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D

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Fat Chat Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ChatWithFatFeminists/?ref=share

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