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Read more: Pursuing An Agenda
Pursuing An Agenda
4 comments on Pursuing An AgendaEarlier today, Melissa McEwan tweeted: Scrolling back, I saw Melissa’s prior tweet was regarding Dylan Farrow: “I am speaking about this because it is wrong; I am speaking in solidarity with Dylan Farrow; I am speaking in defense of my own survival.” This blew me away. In retrospect it seems silly — of course people often have their own agendas on the internet! — but we often…
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Read more: Quotes on Clothing
Quotes on Clothing
“If you don’t grow up ever seeing members of your community wearing suits or expensive clothes, it’s easy to see those who wear these things as members of an exclusive group you can’t break into.” — Kris Gale in the NY Times “[P]erception is often reality. If you dress, act, and sound like a competent professional, people will generally assume you are, until you prove differently.” — Mark…
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Read more: Health At Every Size Principles
Health At Every Size Principles
I sometimes post about Health At Every Size®, both the concept (which is trademarked by ASDAH) and the book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight, by Linda Bacon. So I am pleased to see that ASDAH has updated its HAES® Principles to be more inclusive of different abilities and backgrounds. Weight bias and weight discrimination is explicitly called out. Supporting individual choices is more…
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Read more: Some Workplace Wellness Programs Work
Some Workplace Wellness Programs Work
I found it surprising too! A study of over 67,000 people who could join PepsiCo’s “Healthy Living” wellness program found that 7 years of participation in a “disease management” program resulted in a net savings — the cost of the program was less than the money saved by reduced healthcare costs. These sorts of programs are “aimed at helping people with chronic illnesses stay healthy, by educating them and…
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Read more: 2013 at Living 400lbs
2013 at Living 400lbs
Most-read posts / pages: Day in the Life About Barefoot Contessa How Do You Comfort Sore Muscles? Fat Clothing Catalogs… Day in the Life: Shower, Chafing, & Jock Itch But…! Disney World What If You’re Too Big For Lane Bryant? Exercise Some more amusing search terms: unicorns are real they’re just fat and gray and we call them rhinos rhetorical question about obesity what size is 30/32 plus size cyberspace mountain weight 400 hundred…
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Read more: Happy New Year
Happy New Year
Happy New Year, Happy New Year, May we all have a vision Now and then of a world Where every neighbor is a friend Happy New Year, Happy New Year
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Read more: Try Some New Music
Try Some New Music
Several indie artists put together a sampler of music — over 70 tracks — to try. Some of it is music I’ve loved for years. “Firebird’s Child” “Light Heart” “Salad of Doom” “Tam Lin” “The Cthulhu Colada Song” “The Holly & The Ivy” “Two Guys Kissin’ Ruined My Life” “WinterTide” “Witches’ Rune” Others are new to me, or new interpretations. “Close Your Eyes” “Do Virgins Taste Better…
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Read more: Green Tea Extracts
Green Tea Extracts
I’ve written before that our society tends to push weight loss “pros” and not mention “cons”. Here’s a “con” you may not be familiar with. There are many products to help people lose weight (if only temporarily). Some “fat burning” supplements contain green tea extracts, which in high doses can be toxic to the liver. The investigators looked at 845 patients with severe, drug-induced liver damage who…
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Read more: #fatmicroaggressions
#fatmicroaggressions
[Content warning: criticism of fat shaming] Melissa McEwan at Shakesville started the #fatmicroaggressions tag on Twitter. (If you’re not familiar, “microaggression” is the concept that specific interactions between those of different races, cultures, or genders can be interpreted as small acts of mostly non-physical aggression; the term was coined byChester M. Pierce in 1970. I am most familiar with microaggressions via http://www.microaggressions.com/.) Melissa started with the old chestnut we’ve…
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Read more: Things I’m reading
Things I’m reading
Kath as a post at Fat Heffalump on the feedback from her recent interview by Jasmin Lill on news.com.au, Brisbane blogger speaks out against online bullies. Go Kath! Closet Puritan has a thoughtful response to some of the conflation between “Fat people are more common in communities with a Walmart” and “Eating more processed food from Walmart makes people fat”. This Adipose Rex has some musings on Christianity and the…
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