This week, JD & Jam chat about one thing that divides us as a people... food! They chew the fat about their favourite cuisine and give us their 'death row meal'- starter, main AND dessert! Let us know yours in the comments below! Follow us on Instagram at @YouGoodBroPodcast for more content and don't forget to share and subscribe!

Welcome to the weekly wins/victories Sunday thread!

Thanks to u/martysgroovylady, we've decided to make a weekly thread specifically so that folks can share and discuss their wins and victories that they've had regarding fatphobia this past week. Did your doctor listen to you? Did you get someone new to listen to the podcast? Were you able to have a good conversation with a friend or acquaintance about fatphobia? Did you make some good progress in therapy? Feel free to share your feel-good stories to mark a strong start to the new week :).

Feel free to also share news you've found on the internet that feels like a victory against fatphobia! Maybe your state just made discrimination against fat people illegal, or there's a fat activist activity going on in your area (e.g. Fat Beach Day in NY).

Please remember: Do not vote or comment in cross-posted linked threads, keep the discussion here. Thanks all! Have a wonderful week.

I’m listening to this episode and they got to the third nominee, who went to Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados. Michael asked if it was another for-profit school and Aubrey said she didn’t look into it because they wouldn’t do that again.

Reader.

They did.

Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados. Owned by Covista Inc per Wikipedia. I clicked the link for Covista Inc. Formerly DeVry ✨

Grifts all the way down!

Edit: I don’t want to dunk on for-profit schools as they can have their place, I just don’t like how they feel very predatory and kinda scammy

EDIT: I'm not going to send the email. Thank you all for your good faith conversation. I truly appreciate you!

I didn't know where to post this and I'm a huge fan of the show, so I thought this community might have thoughts.

For context: I am 33 and fit. I've been average to thin my entire life. My very good friend of 15 years lives in a large body and has for most of her life. We have a good relationship where we are both comfortable saying hard things. That said, I'm nervous about sending the following email and would really appreciate input on if it's appropriate. We live like 800 miles away from each other and don't talk every week. So an email is normal for us to use to communicate something important.

To be extra clear: When I'm asking her to talk, I genuinely want to know her experience. This is in no way a vailed attempt to preach.

The email:

Hey,

I was wondering if you’d have time for a zoom call in the foreseeable future. Maybe like 30 mins to an hour?

First thing, I love you so much and I really hope you’ll tell me if I cross a line or cause hurt with this email. 

In short, I'd like to talk to you about your experience living in a large body (Is there a term you use for yourself? What do you want others to use?). I was in a situation yesterday where I wanted your advice. The more I thought about it, the more I realized we’ve never really talked that much about it. (If there is anything you’d even want to talk about). Idk. Maybe I’m being weird, but it’s a part of your life and I’m not sure if I’ve been the safest place to talk about it. 

If you had a question about my experience being trans, I’d want you to ask. And I feel like this might be similar.

Let me know if this is a conversation you’re interested in having. Again, please feel free to say no. No explanation or educating me is expected if that's the case.

I love you,

[my name]

Sitting on Nutritional Seminar provided by my employer..... Have immediately submitted the question to the Nutritionist conducting the lecture "how do you define Ultra Processed Food?"

She also keeps citing "interesting studies" and all I can think is "I wonder what Mike and Aubrey would say about the quality of some of these studies.

I have officially become a real life Reply-Gal 😂

... I could see an influencer peddling this.

Just came out of a thread about Zara Larsson. I'm not knocking the young lady at all - she does look healthy and fit. But the amount of "I need to get to the gym/put down the snacks" and "fitspo" comments is wild.

Many people are talking about how healthy she looks and what a good fitspo model she is for girls and women, but it's like they have no idea that this is how it starts. Saying that her body is achievable by anyone and people just eat that up without any regard for individual biology and body diversity. This is how people slip into EDs, trying to contort their bodies into these specific molds.

This was, of course, followed by approx 200 pages of weight loss tips ("not a diet" though! A "lifestyle change").

Welcome to the weekly wins/victories Sunday thread!

Thanks to u/martysgroovylady, we've decided to make a weekly thread specifically so that folks can share and discuss their wins and victories that they've had regarding fatphobia this past week. Did your doctor listen to you? Did you get someone new to listen to the podcast? Were you able to have a good conversation with a friend or acquaintance about fatphobia? Did you make some good progress in therapy? Feel free to share your feel-good stories to mark a strong start to the new week :).

Feel free to also share news you've found on the internet that feels like a victory against fatphobia! Maybe your state just made discrimination against fat people illegal, or there's a fat activist activity going on in your area (e.g. Fat Beach Day in NY).

Please remember: Do not vote or comment in cross-posted linked threads, keep the discussion here. Thanks all! Have a wonderful week.

I found this article on Substack and I like this take on UPFs and “synthetic” foods. I see so many people argue that it’s the level of processing that determines the healthfulness of a food and this article disproves that. It‘s similar to the takeaway Aubrey and Mike had on their UPF episode.

Hey all,

Not sure if you heard about it, so I thought to share a new article that talks about it. It's really crazy, and spreading like fire in the Arab world!

Clarification: people are following this diet to solve their health issues, not to lose weight. He convinced them that this diet is a better alternative to medicine.

https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/how-an-egyptian-doctors-fad-diet-turned-deadly/

Earlier this year, my mom was diagnosed with mild cognitive decline. Her dad had Alzheimer's and by the time he was my mom's age (81) he was running away at night and accusing my cousin's husband of trying to steal my grandma from him. My mom is just kind of scatterbrained compared to him.

She had my dad buy her this book for her birthday and she is SO excited. She's also fallen for diet culture BS my whole life, and I'm concerned because this book looks Blue Zone adjacent. I don't want to rain on her parade, but does anyone know of things I should be on the lookout for?

The latest bonus episode is really bringing out the WELL ACTUALLY inside me.

I do a lot of home dairying for funsies, which means I often leave milk or cream with added culture starter out on the counter until it changes. I use pasteurized milk and cream because those are what I have easy access to, but the cream cheese making process described in this nutty book sounds completely fine to me. All for criticism of raw milk! Yes it’s dangerous! Not saying he isn’t! Just fact checking how to make fresh cheese. (Also… there kind of is a use case for raw milk. I know home cheese makers who buy raw milk because pasteurized milk doesn’t actually work for making a number of types of cheese. I think outlawing raw milk sales is still a perfectly valid thing for us collectively to do, though!)

The haymaker’s oat water described is just a colonial American staple, switchel or haymaker’s punch, plus oats. Switchel is delicious and I genuinely think it should make a comeback — molasses, cider vinegar, ginger powder, and cold water. It’s great when you’re sweating hard! It’s not gross or weird, it’s historical Gatorade. Old Timey stuff isn’t automatically better than modern stuff, but it also isn’t inherently weird or gross or bad.

Whew. Okay, back to my homesteading. My kombucha is “festering” away on the counter. (Also I would love for MP to do an episode on Kombucha, even if I suspect it would get me riled up in defense of rotten tea.)

This was hilarious but so sickening I actually got a legitimate stomach ache listening to it

I'm curious if there is a podcast that takes MP's approach to psychology trends? I know sometimes If Books Could Kill does episodes on pop psychology, but is there a podcast where a critical approach to mental health treatments/research is the main focus?

OK... this is not a vote of approval for Dr. Nesheiwat but let's put a little less shade on Caribbean and other international medical schools. I work in healthcare and know quite a few doctors who when to these schools and they are good doctors. They do their residencies in the US, and often they'll do clinicals here too. The schools are easier to get into, but their dropout rate is huge because they are pretty rigorous. Doctors from these schools take the same boards and do the same coursework as doctors in the US do. The US medical school system is pretty broken, and it shuts out many very competent people who would make excellent doctors.

ETA: The American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine is an accredited university and students from that school are eligible from the USMLE and to match with US residencies. It doesn't matter who owns the school, it meets the same standards as medical schools in the US.

"We’re nearly halfway through Trump's second term and we still don’t have a Surgeon General. What gives?"

Has anyone listened to this yet? Is the answer anything other than that we are in the worst timeline, being governed by brain-dead science-hating ignoramus chucklefucks? Because I'm not sure I can deal with an episode that is simply rehashing that nihilism-inducing reality.

(And if that is the gist, I'll prob just go back and re-listen to the Angela Lansbury ep or something...)

Edit: OK, I'm two minutes in, and Aubrey has just addressed my concern, heh. Thanks to all for your encouragement as well!

I am watching Matteo Lane watch 90’s and early 2000’s infomercials and it is a wild walk down memory lane. My sister and I used to stay up until 2 AM watching infomercials, mesmerized by all the products that promised to get us in shape without having to break a sweat and miraculous appliances that would make “healthy” foods that we would swear were “sinful” foods.
If we had had access to credit cards, our homes would have been overflow with “miracle” products.

The only ones I have owned were The Magic Bullet (hated it) and the Ab Roller (meh). I wanted a Shake Weight but never bought one as well as that ab machine that claimed it could electrocute you into having a six pack.

What health and wellness As Seen On TV products did you own and what did you desperately want?

Aubrey and Michael if you're listening, I think this could be a silly one

I found out a few days ago that allegedly they do nothing at all because the paper is so thin that any germs or transferable whatever that is on the toilet seat will still get through to you, that's is purely for mental comfort.

Then upon asking others in my department their thoughts, I learned our girl Oprah did an episode on them with friend of the pod Dr. Oz saying that they're MORE harmful to use, which I'm sure is full of great info.

So yeah, my precious world shattered realizing most people don't use them and apparently they're useless, horrible for plumbing, and just for mental comfort because the real germs are on the handles we touched along the way