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A History Of Fat Phobia

The body positive movement might be trending, but so is the lean body physique achieved by clean eating and CrossFit. Which one do we, collectively, ascribe to? University of Kansas professor Christopher E. Forth joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the persistent, centuries-long stereotypes about a much-maligned body type, which he writes about in “Fat: A Cultural History of the Stuff of Life.”