PS285 Lecture 12: Lecture 12
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Interesectionality: isms that affect a person and overlap, fat women tend to make less money than thin women (correlation) (re)defining the obesity epidemic: epidemic infectious disease. Epidemic: obesity as a disease is an assumption. We wouldn"t consider poverty or car accidents a disease: research is done at a population level but taken up at an individual level, correlation is not causation, shows potential connections. Shrinking women video: intergenerational messaging about fatness, idea that the women in her family learn to take up less and less space. Small mri machines, obese with potential brain tumor. Pair and share: there"s always going to be an underlying health factor despite all of this, hard to see outside of your own experience. Health at every size: poodle science, accepting body diversity. Instead of trying to change your body type just be the healthiest version of yourself you can be: health is multi-dimensional, health and well-being for all sizes, intuitive eating.
