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Read more: Fat Discrimination Research
Fat Discrimination Research
16 comments on Fat Discrimination ResearchRebecca Puhl, director of research and weight stigma initiatives at the Rudd Center, is quoted on studying weight bias in The Toronto Star: [It’s] one of the easiest [bias] fields to research as the prejudices are so widespread and socially acceptable that people easily admit to them. This is a form of bias that is so prevalent, society accepts it unchallenged […] It’s a social justice issue and…
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Read more: MLK Day
MLK Day
I was born in 1966, in a state which entered the Union in 1889, and thus had always been a “free” state; some of the founders came here because they couldn’t legally own land in other states. Yet state history included two of the most prominent counties being named in honor of the pro-slavery President Pierce and Vice President King. I learned about the Reverend Martin Luther…
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Read more: Weight vs Wait: A Vocabulary Anecdote
Weight vs Wait: A Vocabulary Anecdote
A teacher of my acquaintance does “use this word in a sentence” exercises with homonyms. Asking the kids to use the word “wait” in a sentence, the boys wrote about “waiting for someone” scenarios; the girls wrote about “losing weight”. Second grade. (ETA: She’s asking them to use the word “wait” verbally, so the kids are interpreting which homonym, wait or weight, to write about.)
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Read more: Things to Read
Things to Read
A review of the book Deadly Spin, which is an inside look at how for-profit insurance companies use PR to make their policies palatable. From a piece on why the L.A. public schools are not participating in a reality TV show: “Reality TV has a formula. You either have to have drama or create conflict to be successful. We’re not interested in either.” And this was nicely put: Conflating…
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Read more: Surgeon General: Dance for Fun
Surgeon General: Dance for Fun
From a recent New York Times interview with the US Surgeon General, Dr Regina Benjamin: My thought is that people should be healthy and be fit at whatever size they are. […] I want exercise to be fun; don’t want it to be work. I don’t want it to be so routine that you’re bored with it. We used to jump rope a lot and double Dutch…
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Read more: On Fat and Eating
On Fat and Eating
From Hanne Blank: Truth is, it is totally possible to be a fat person eating “healthy” and “sustainable” and “locavore” and “balanced” and “nutritious” and “organic.” This fat I have on my hips here? That’s some locally-grown, sustainable, artisanally crafted, homemade fat, right there, practically glowing with seventeen kinds of early 21st-century middle-class white American foodie pride. From Lesley at Two Whole Cakes: [M]any behaviors seen as…
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Read more: A year ago: Exercise Progress
A year ago: Exercise Progress
…I started a program of walking every day. I didn’t keep up with it being a daily walk, but I did get consistent enough in walking and strength training that I did not have to use a cane since … last January?* I’m considering this a victory. Two things that helped: 1) Focusing on the exercises I thought would give me the most results. I had…
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Read more: A few links
A few links
Marilyn Wann launched a new HAES site at http://2011revolutions.blogspot.com/, focusing at replacing diet resolutions with a revolution. Jezebel: If You’re Fat-Phobic, You’re Also An Ignorant, Bigoted Idiot and Biggest Weight Stories of 2010. “I don’t eat a hamburger and large chips every day!” A qualitative study of the impact of public health messages about obesity on obese adults. From the abstract: Personal and contextual factors influenced the…
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Read more: Dancing to “Baby Got Back”
Dancing to “Baby Got Back”
From Ragan of Dances with Fat comes this competitive dance number set to Jonathon Coulton’s version of “Baby Got Back”: Whether you are going dancing tonight or not, I hope you enjoy the video. Best to all for a happy new year!
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Read more: Today on Twitter: Body Acceptance
Today on Twitter: Body Acceptance
I don’t plan to write a lot of posts about things I say on Twitter, because I figure if you want to read it you’ll read it on Twitter. But I have a couple today I’d like to share to a wider audience. Today, Polimicks (of http://www.polimicks.com/ and http://polimicks.livejournal.com) decided to tweet about body acceptance, using a “#bodyacceptance” tag (which in twitter searches for things with that tag). Some…
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