In the sequel (sorry) to our first installment, we take a deep dive into Rachel's wildly problematic books and deeply weird downfall. Along the way we discuss allyship etiquette, MLMs and Ronald Reagan. We remain convinced that getting matching tattoos was the right decision for us.  

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• The infamous Tik Tok
• Savy Writes Books' video essays
• The Rise & Fall of Rachel Hollis
• The Divine Rise of Multilevel Marketing
• Kaitlyn Luckow's "Girl, It’s Okay To Be Dirty: A Look At Toxic Self-Help"
• Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis
• Jesus never called us to chase after power, money, and fame 
• “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message
• Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside
• Influencer Rachel Hollis Is Facing Accusations She Is Plagiarizing On Her Instagram

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Girl, stop reinforcing the status quo.

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Videos!

• The infamous Tik Tok
• Momfession: I get up at 5 am
• The "bikini mom" talk
• How To Start A Podcast

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Last year, spiritual leader Marianne Williamson made headlines when she ran for president.  But 10 years earlier, she wrote a bestselling book that promised to teach readers how to “surrender" their weight forever. This week, Mike and Aubrey take a deep dive into Williamson’s life story and her 2010 book, “A Course in Weight Loss."  Along the way we talk nonprofit drama, Eleanor Roosevelt and gays for Marianne. Plus, Mike’s got a message for the twinks.

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• Marianne Williamson on Forgiveness
• A Course in Weight Loss
• A Course in Weight Loss, Chapter Two 
• A Course in Weight Loss, Chapter 7
• A Course in Weight Loss, Chapter 8

Links!

• Who is Marianne Williamson? Her 2020 presidential campaign and policies, explained 
• The Divine Miss W
• Faith: Marianne Williamson Is Full of It
• The Gospel According to Marianne Williamson 
• “No One Decides to Run for President Impulsively”: Marianne Williamson Explains Her Magical Thinking
• Marianne Williamson has almost everything 
• Marianne Williamson is a controversial AIDS-crisis figure for gay men.
• Into America's Spiritual Void With Marianne Williamson
• Why Marianne Williamson’s most famous passage keeps getting cited as a Nelson Mandela quote 

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How Nestlé executives, global health institutions and a very racist white lady seeded a series of nutritional misconceptions we're still living with today. 

Special thanks to John Nott for helping us out with this episode! Here's his papers on the history of protein and the British Empire.

• “No one may starve in the British Empire”: Kwashiorkor, Protein and the Politics of Nutrition Between Britain and Africa
• “How Little Progress”? A Political Economy of Postcolonial Nutrition

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• Cicely Williams’ dissertation
• Dariush Mozaffarian's "History of Modern Nutrition Science"
• The Incidence Of Protein-Calorie Malnutrition Of Early Childhood
• An Error of Medicine? Kwashiorkor and the “Protein Gap”
• Childhood Malnutrition In Developing Nations: Looking Back and Looking Forward
• The Politics of Protein
• The Impact of Colonialism on Health and Health Services in Tanzania
• Breast-Milk and the World Protein Gap
• The Influence of Colonialism on Africa’s Welfare: An Anthropometric Study
• Food, Colonialism and the Quantum of Happiness
• Revisited: Is Subclinical Protein Deficiency A Significant Public Health Concern?
• Listening to the Ga: Cicely Williams’ Discovery of Kwashiorkor on the Gold Coast
• “Milking the Third World: Humanitarianism, Capitalism and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott”
• The Controversy Over Infant Formula
• War on Want’s “The Baby Killer “
• 75 years of Kwashiorkor In Africa
• The Rise and Fall of Protein Malnutrition in Global Health

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Over the last 30 years, fatness has been defined as a risk factor for disease, then a disease in itself, then a global epidemic. What caused this rapid shift? Who’s gonna join our group of B-roll vigilantes? And did we just hear Morgan Freeman?

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• Fat Politics 
• Killer Fat 
• The End of the Obesity Epidemic 
• Folk Devils and Moral Panics 
• Moral Panics 

Links!

• American Obesity Association PSA
• AMA Recognizes Obesity as a Disease 
• Regarding Obesity as a Disease: Evolving Policies and Their Implications 
• For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions 
• Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms 
• Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer 
• Research: How Americans’ Biases Are Changing (or not) Over Time 
• Satcher: Obesity Reaching Crisis Levels 
• Do Photographic Images of Obese Persons Influence Antifat Attitudes?
• Did the American Medical Association make the correct decision classifying obesity as a disease? 
• What exactly is a disease? 
• The “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”: Health Crisis or Social Construction? 
• Fears of a fat planet overblown, skeptics say 
• An Unjust War: The Case Against the Government’s War on Obesity 
• Expanding Definitions of Obesity May Harm Children 

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The BMI is EVERYWHERE. But is it scientific or scientif-ish? While many Americans think of the body mass index as an objective measure of health, its history reveals a more complicated story. This week, Mike and Aubrey tackle the first in a two-part series about the BMI and the “Obesity Epidemic.” Along the way they visit 18th century Belgium, learn a gross new acronym and dissect Dracula's facial features.

LINKS!:

• The Bizarre and Racist History of the BMI (Elemental) 
• Adolphe Quetelet, Social Physics, and the Average Men of Science, 1796-1874 (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Mindful of eugenics’ dark history, researchers are reexamining the genetics of social mobility (Quartz) 
• Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874)—the average man and indices of obesity (Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation)
• For Researchers on Obesity: Historical Review of Extra Body Weight Definitions (Obesity)
• Quetelet, Adolphe (Canada’s Eugenics Archives)
• Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus (NPR)
• The False Science Linking Body Shape to Personality (The Atlantic)
• Obesity task force linked to WHO takes “millions” from drug firms (The BMJ)
• Impact of weight bias and stigma on quality of care and outcomes for patients with obesity (Obesity Reviews) 

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This week we're diving into one of the biggest-ever scandals in nutrition research. For nearly two decades, Brian Wansink's Food and Brand Lab told Americans that lower weights, healthier workplaces and better school lunches were just a few small tweaks away. Then, in 2015, he wrote a blog post and it all came crashing down. 

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• A Credibility Crisis in Food Science
• Statistical heartburn: An attempt to digest four pizza publications from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab
• Brian Wansink: Data Masseur, Media Villain, Emblem of a Thornier Problem
• The Wansink Dossier: An Overview
• More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up
• Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat
• False-Positive Psychology: Undisclosed Flexibility in Data Collection and Analysis Allows Presenting Anything as Significant
• Death of a Veggie Salesman
• The Strange, Uplifting Tale of “Joy of Cooking” Versus the Food Scientist
• Moms, “Food Fears” and the Power of the Internet
• The science behind Smarter Lunchrooms
• You Can’t Trust What You Read About Nutrition
• Energy balance measurement: when something is not better than nothing
• Scientific method: Statistical errors
• Effect of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act on the Nutritional Quality of Meals Selected by Students and School Lunch Participation Rates
• 9.67 Degrees of Deception

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So long, root vegetables! This week, we dive into the strange and surprising history of the 100-year-old ketogenic diet. Along the way, we encounter a Victorian bodybuilder, an infamous podcast bro and the possibility of a bad Meryl Streep performance (!). Get in, loser, we're counting macros!

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• What Is the Keto Diet and Does It Work? (NYT)
• The Ketogenic Diet for Weight Loss (Today’s Dietitian)
• Meet the Wackiest Billionaire Ever to Run for President (Money)
• Trailer for "First, Do No Harm"
• Keto Diet History - How the Ketogenic Diet Went Mainstream (Men's Health)
• 7 Dangers of the Keto Diet | Health.com (Health Magazine)
• 15 Keto Diet Side Effects to Know – Possible Keto Diet Dangers (Prevention)
• Ketogenic Diet May Lead to an Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes (The Physiological Society)

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Special guest Kimberly Springer joins us to talk about an infamous, dangerous faith healer and his two — two! — appearances on Oprah's talk show. This episode contains, we're sorry to say, detailed descriptions of sexual assault. 

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• Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture
• Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980

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• Behind the Bastards podcast series on John of God 
• The O Magazine article
• John of God, the Miracle Healer
• Celebrity Healer in Brazil Is Accused of Sexually Abusing Followers
• Oprah’s 2012 article

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Do you have weird feelings about Oprah? So do we, and so does our guest! Kimberly Springer, co-editor of "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture," joins us to talk about the rise of Oprah Winfrey and her infamous "wagon of fat" weight loss episode.

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• Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture
• Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980

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• Oprah Winfrey Rolls Out A Wagon Of Fat  (Buzzfeed)
• How Oprah's Weight Affected Her Relationship with Stedman (Oprah)
• MadTv - Oprah - Fat Cam (Mad TV)

Links!

• The Importance of Being Oprah (New York Times Magazine)
• Oprah's 'Fattest' Mistake (CBS News)
• 5 awesome objects from the new Oprah exhibit (Washington Post)
• Oprah's biggest on-air mistake? The wagon of fat (Today)
• Diet That Made Oprah Winfrey Slim Demands Discipline, Specialists Say (New York Times)

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Do you have viruses? Cysts? Cancer? Are you tired sometimes? According to Instagram, the  problem might be a lack of liquefied vegetables! This week, Mike and Aubrey take on a troubling taste test, meet a ghost with bad intentions and encounter the longest list of problematic celebrities we've ever seen.

Plus, we start the show with an announcement: We're doing Patreon-only bonus episodes! Sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/maintenancephase

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• Anthony William on Extra
• Anthony William on Keeping Up with the Kardashians
• Celery Juice Is the Perfect, Probably Pointless Trend for 2019 (Vanity Fair)
• Food Isn't Medicine. Here's Why It's Dangerous to Believe It Is. (Huffington Post)
• Is celery juice a viable alternative to nitrites in cured meats? (McGill University)
• Is Celery Juice a Sham? (The New York Times)
• Today's Diet Fads (Today's Dietitian)
• People think celery juice can protect you from COVID-19. Here's why that's categorically false. (Mama Mia)
  
  

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Special guest Mike Rothschild tells us how the road to wellness can be an on-ramp to a conspiracy theory. Along the way we debunk oil pulling, explore Instagram aesthetics and bemoan anti-vaxx argumentation tactics . Mike gets the date of the January 6th insurrection wrong and he is sorry.

Mike Rothschild is on Twitter and you can pre-order his book here!

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This week is our first  Diet Book Deep Dive, where we dig into some of the worst and wildest weight loss advice we can find.  First up: Tonight Show sidekick Ed McMahon's pun, alcohol and misogyny-fueled diet plan from the 1970s. Hope you like broiled steak and Sanka!

Clips!

• Ed McMahon & Britney Spears on Star Search
• Ed McMahon for American Family Sweepstakes

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 In 1996, Proctor & Gamble launched an artificial fat substitute that promised all of the taste but none of the calories. There was just one problem. 

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• Marion Nestle’s The Selling of Olestra
• Jeffrey Steingarten's The Man Who Ate Everything
• The 1996 Federal Register
• The Trouble With Fries
• Reduction of the body burden of PCBs and DDE by dietary intervention in a randomized trial
• Review of the effects of dilution of dietary energy with olestra on energy intake
• Authors’ Financial Relationships With the Food and Beverage Industry and Their Published Positions on the Fat Substitute Olestra
• Postmarketing Surveillance of New Food Ingredients: Results from the Program with the Fat Replacer Olestra
• Effects of wheat bran and olestra on objective measures of stool and subjective reports of GI symptoms
• The effect of ingesting olestra-based foods on feeding behavior and energy balance in humans
• Effect on Body Weight of Replacing Dietary Fat with Olestra for Two or Ten Weeks in Healthy Men and Women 

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Fat people have them too! This week, special guest Erin Harrop tells us about one of America's most under-diagnosed and misunderstood problems. Along the way we talk about elbow bumps, Twitter etiquette and '90s sweatpants. Our content warnings are becoming increasingly threatening.

Here's Erin's faculty page and a bunch of her research!

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Get your flex point calculators and food scales! This week, Mike and Aubrey are talking about one of America's most iconic diet programs: Weight Watchers. Along the way, we encounter The Rock, the mating habits of straight people and a new James Bond villain. 

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• Jean Nidetch, a Founder of Weight Watchers, Dies at 91 
• Mass Firing on Zoom Is Latest Sign of Weight Watchers Unrest 
• Weight Watcher's Kurbo app slammed for targeting kids. Makers defend it 
• What's gone wrong at Weight Watchers? 
• Weight Watchers Is Offering Teens Free Memberships and People Aren't Happy 
• Americans’ new way of losing weight has left Weight Watchers behind 
• How the Oprah effect helped Weight Watchers regain Americans' trust 
• Deal Master Debbane 
• The Population Cost‐Effectiveness of Weight Watchers with General Practitioner Referral Compared with Standard Care 
• Weight Watchers on prescription: An observational study of weight change among adults referred to Weight Watchers by the NHS 
• The Problem With 'Fat Talk' 
• 'Fat Talk' Compels but Carries a Cost 

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Are your moods too stable? Is your face free of cold sores? Get your lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper ready, because this week we're talking about celebrity favorite THE MASTER CLEANSE!

Along the way we roast New Atheism, praise Gwyneth Paltrow (!) and endorse garbanzo bean salads. Mike wishes to clarify that he adores Kate Bush and quips with the utmost affection.

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• The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs
• I Heard It Through the Diet Grapevine (New York Times)
• Improving Ourselves to Death (The New Yorker)
• Cleansing's Dirty Secret (Marie Claire)
• Mr. Clean: Jeffrey Steingarten Puts the Master Cleanse to the Test (Vogue)
• The Dubious Practice of Detox (Harvard Health)

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This week we're dissecting "America's Doctor." How did a smart, hardworking surgeon become one of TV's leading purveyors of junk science?  Along the way we debunk green coffee bean extract, raspberry ketones, conversion therapy (!) and a salad dressing skincare regimen.

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• Transcript of the infamous Congressional hearing
• The Making of Dr. Oz
• Columbia and the Problem of Dr. Oz
• The FTC lawsuit against green coffee bean extract sellers
• The Oz craze: The effect of pop culture media on health care
• The BMJ content analysis of the Dr. Oz show
• Ageing, fitness and neurocognitive function
• Real-world doctors fact-check Dr. Oz, and the results aren't pretty 
• Dr. Oz may be America's most influential — and controversial — physician 

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The world of dieting and wellness is full of so-called snake oil salesmen—but what IS snake oil? This week, we take a wild ride through the history of health scams and discover a startling twist about an everyday idiom. Along the way, Aubrey delivers fun facts about sanitation from memory and Mike roasts the state where most of his family lives. 

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• Snake Oil, Hustlers & Hambones by Mary Anderson
• A History Of 'Snake Oil Salesmen' : Code Switch (NPR)
• How Snake Oil Got a Bad Rap (Hint: It Wasn’t The Snakes’ Fault) (Collectors Weekly)

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This week we dissect the content and impact of one of America's most harmful TV experiments.  
 
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• Aubrey’s article on The Biggest Loser
•  That's not reality for me': Australian audiences respond to the Biggest Loser 
• "Cheapening the struggle:" obese people's attitudes towards the Biggest Loser 
• The Effects of Reality Television on Weight Bias: An Examination of The Biggest Loser
• 'It's a miracle no one has died yet': The Biggest Loser returns, despite critics' warnings
• The Retrograde Shame of The Biggest Loser
• Analysis of all contestants
• Neoliberalism And The Realities Of Reality Television
• The “Reality” of Health: Reality Television and the Public Health
• Life after NBC's "The Biggest Loser": The Experiences and Perspectives of Former Reality TV Contestants 

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WE’RE BACK! A new diet ice cream is taking your grocery store by storm. But what even is it? This week, Mike and Aubrey talk biohacking, dieting for straight dudes and the extremely ill-advised "Halo Top diet."

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Links!

• What is biohacking? The new “science” of optimizing your brain and body. (Vox) 
• Halo Top Is Now the Most Popular Pint of Ice Cream in America (Food and Wine) 
• What It's Like to Eat Nothing but This Magical, Healthy Ice Cream for 10 Days (GQ) 
• Is Halo Top Good For You? The Truth About Low-Calorie, Low-Fat Ice Creams (HuffPost)
• Seven in 10 young people would eat whole tub of low-cal ice cream (The Grocer UK)

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To celebrate the release of her new book, Aubrey takes Mike on a tour through the statistics and debates surrounding weight bias. Anyone interested in body positivity, airline seats, 'skinny shaming' or the sugar content of melons is legally obligated to join us.

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Get Aubrey's book in the U.S.:

• Powell's Books
• Bookshop.org
• Beacon Press
• Buy from your local bookstore on Indiebound

Get Aubrey's book outside the U.S.

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The Twinkie Defense has become a shorthand for disingenuous legal defense strategies. But was it disingenuous? (Yes, but not in the way you think!)

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• Mike's "Victim's Rights" episode on his other show!
• The Trial of Dan White: The Diminished Capacity ("Twinkie") Defense
• Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death
• The Myth of the Twinkie Defense: The Verdict in the Dan White Case Wasn’t Based on His Ingestion of Junk Food
• Psychiatric Testimony and the Insanity Defense
• California’s Proposition 8 (1982)

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What's that Gwyneth Paltrow's drinking? It's MOON JUICE! This week, we're talking adaptogens, brain dust, hot sex milk and the wellness company that's taken L.A. by storm. Be sure to take your quinton shots before you listen to this one.

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Links!:

• How Hollywood's Favorite Juice Bar Owner Eats Every Day (Elle)
• How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business (NYT)
• What Are Adaptogens? (NYT)
• Wellness Brand Moon Juice Has Plenty of Haters - And Its Founder is Cool With That (Entrepreneur)
• The Moon Juice Gospel of Self (The New Yorker)
• How Wellness Got Whitewashed (Glamour)

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They hit the market in 1992. Three years later, they were the best-selling cookie in America. This week, Mike and Aubrey dive into the low-fat craze of the 1990s and sample the snack that became the symbol of its rise and fall.  

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Links! 

• How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America 
• “Eat More, They’re Healthy”
• Anthology of “Cookie Man” ads
• “What if It’s All Been A Big Fat Lie?”
• “Ending the War on Fat”

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Fen-Phen & Redux were "the next miracle drugs" in the '90s, claiming to help people lose dramatic amounts of weight in just three months.  But within a few short years, they'd been pulled from the market.  They were just too effective! (Just kidding, they killed some people.)

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Links! 

• Dispensing with the Truth by Alicia Mundy
• The New Miracle Drug (Time Magazine)
• How Fen-Phen, A Diet 'Miracle,' Rose and Fell (the New York Times)
• Blowing the Whistle on Fen-Phen (Journal of Business Communication)
• Purdue OxyContin settlement would rank among largest in pharma history (Reuters)
• National Trends in Antiobesity Medication Use (JAMA Network)
• The Fen-Phen Finale: A Study of Weight Loss and Valvular Heart Disease (Obesity Research)

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The shuttle run! The flexed arm hang! The v-sit reach! These terms are seared into the memories of an entire generation of American schoolchildren. But did the President's Physical Fitness Test actually make us fitter?  (Spoiler: lol no)

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• The Report That Shocked The President
• JFK’s Sports Illustrated article, “The Soft American”
• 1958–2008: 50 Years of Youth Fitness Tests in the United States
• The President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Systematisation of Children's Play in America
• Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram
• The Modern Era: Blossoming of the Olympic Movement and the Conquest of Acute Disease
• The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports: The First 50 Years
• Do Fitness Test Performances Predict Students’ Attitudes And Emotions Toward Physical Education?

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Welcome to Maintenance Phase! In our first episode, we tell our origin stories and talk about some of the basic ideas behind the show.

Here's where to find us:
Aubrey: https://www.yourfatfriend.com/
Mike: https://rottenindenmark.org/

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