On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate science and health editor <a href="https://twitter.com/shanpalus">Shannon Palus</a> is joined by author and co-host of <a href="https://www.maintenancephase.com/">Maintenance Phase</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/yrfatfriend">Aubrey Gordon</a>. Shannon and Aubrey discuss Aubrey’s new book,<a href="https://www.aubreygordon.net/myths"> “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People</a>, the fraught nature of “body positivity” and the insidious goalpost moving of the Dove “Love Your Body” campaign. In Slate Plus, Aubrey and Shannon discuss the new weight-loss fad, Ozempic.  Further Reading Recommendations From Aubrey:<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/hunger-a-memoir-of-my-body-roxane-gay/6435076?ean=9780062420718">Hunger</a> by Roxane Gay<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/belly-of-the-beast-the-politics-of-anti-fatness-as-anti-blackness-da-shaun-l-harrison/15663994?ean=9781623175979">Belly of the Beast</a> by Da’shaun L. Harrison<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-body-is-not-an-apology-the-power-of-radical-self-love-sonya-renee-taylor/7723432?ean=9781523090990">The Body Is Not An Apology</a> by Sonya Renee Taylor<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-sabrina-strings/16637571?ean=9781479886753">Fearing the Black Body</a> by Sabrina Strings Julie Murphy’s fiction novels like <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/dumplin-julie-murphy/15541597?ean=9780062327192">Dumplin’</a> Check out Shannon’s new Slate Column: <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/new-year-new-exercise-goal.html">Good Fit</a> Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery.Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

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