“Being a fat lady and trying to do all the things that fat ladies are supposed to do took me right there,” Ms. Gordon said. “I’ve been doing all the things, and it’s not really producing the result that I’ve been promised for, you know, the majority of my life. And I’m also seeing other people who have been in search of that promise for the majority of their lives also not getting what they thought was going to happen. At a certain point, you kind of got to go, well, maybe it just doesn’t work.” Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes spend each episode of their podcast “Maintenace Phase” exploring what they call the “wellness-industrial complex,” debunking health fads and nutritional advice. [archived link]