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Read more: What does fat acceptance have to do with health?
What does fat acceptance have to do with health?
Some of the recent discussion about health and fat got me thinking about fat and health. Poll time! (Yes, it’s multiple choice.)
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Read more: Conflating Dieting with Eating Healthy
Conflating Dieting with Eating Healthy
[Feel free to skip if you don’t want to think about dieting right now.] It’s January and there is the usual plethora of diet commercials extolling weight loss. Google “dieting” and up comes Special K’s “Healthy Eating Plan”! That said, it is a bit refreshing to see someone write: As a lifelong dieter, let me tell you from experience: A diet need have nothing to do with…
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Read more: In Which I Get Fangirly
In Which I Get Fangirly
The most recent episode of The Big Bang Theory is a perfect example of what I hate and love about the show. Sheldon’s “talking to” Alex? Terrible. Not just terrible in what was said (which it was) but also out of character. Sheldon isn’t good at reading emotions or dating, but he isn’t cruel. Sheldon not asking his “Council of Ladies” what to say to Alex? After he’d…
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Read more: Today in Don’t Read The Comments
Today in Don’t Read The Comments
Marilyn Wann takes on weight bias in healthcare in “Big deal: You can be fat and fit” on CNN.COM: …People are telling their stories of weight bias in medical care on websites like First, Do No Harm, This Is Thin Privilege and Obesity Surgery Gone Wrong. The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance has been speaking out on behalf of fat people’s civil rights since its founding in 1969.…
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Read more: Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
Hello and welcome! I’m back at work with my new cartoon-a-day calendar (New Yorker cartoons) and new wall calendar (Pacific Northwest landscapes). I even cut off some of the photos from last year’s wall calendar to decorate my cube. Ready to work! (Yes, I know it’s Wednesday, but today feels like Monday to me. Yay four-day weekends! ) I adjusted the layout, let me know if you can’t find…
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
If you can (not allergic to eggs etc) get your flu shot. Yes, really. The Kindle edition of A Year of Biblical Womanhood: How a Liberated Woman Found Herself Sitting on Her Roof, Covering Her Head, and Calling Her Husband “Master” by Rachel Held Evans is $1.99 right now. I enjoyed it, and not just for the debunking of the “Wives are required by God to appear…
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Read more: Q&A, or, More Fun With Search Terms
Q&A, or, More Fun With Search Terms
I’m bored, so I’m going to treat some of the search terms for this blog as questions. I may have gotten a touch silly on these. Void where prohibited by law. why don’t really fat people have diabetes The pancreas wants what the pancreas wants. earrings around 400 pounds OUCH! making kraft dinner from scratch If it’s from scratch, it’s not really Kraft Dinner, is it? inexpensive women’s…
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Read more: Fat Demographics
Fat Demographics
I ran across some interesting US data from the CDC recently. Among men, obesity prevalence is generally similar at all income levels, with a tendency to be slightly higher at higher income levels. Among women, obesity prevalence increases as income decreases. Most obese adults are not low income (below 130% of the poverty level). Among men, there is no significant trend between education level and obesity prevalence.…
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[An occasional exercise in gratitude] It’s Thursday and I’m thankful for…. I belong to a church where women wearing pants to church is common. As are women in leadership. 1-year anniversary at work. My signing bonus is now all mine, instead of something I have to pay back if I leave. Also I get another week’s vacation next year. My own office, without a roommate. Upcoming 4-day weekend. Letting…
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