But What About Health? with Fat Positive Fran, PhD

More Than Tracy Turnblad

Sure, everyone is beautiful and all, but being fat just isn't healthy! Right?? We get into it with molecular biologist Fran aka @fat_positive_fran on TikTok, who explains the factors that determine your body size and unpacks the associations between weight and medical conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.

***CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains discussion of disordered eating, including calorie numbers.***

H1N1 study: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23744235.2016.1201721

Sperm tsRNA study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27340033/

Insulin therapy study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757533/#:~:text=Basal%20insulin%20therapy%20confers%20improved,maximizes%20the%20potential%20to%20nearly

Fran's resource doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xV5kmxaMzMqk9AKSFsMRrGbpXJ8DuV11_gyQywMrmms/edit?usp=sharing

Fran's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fat_positive_fran?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

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