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Read more: Wonder if Michelle Obama reads the New York Times
Wonder if Michelle Obama reads the New York Times
24 comments on Wonder if Michelle Obama reads the New York TimesFrom a New York Times article on how some anti-childhood obesity funding is cutting into funding for anti-smoking efforts: Jeffrey Friedman, an obesity researcher at Rockefeller University, notes that there are many assumptions about what will work — more healthful foods in schools, a soda tax, getting children to be more active. Yet no interventions, when tested in large studies, have caused a big difference in children’s…
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Read more: Fluff: Oprah Magazine cover
Fluff: Oprah Magazine cover
Does anything about this cover photo seem strange to you? My first impression was that Oprah’s middle was removed, leaving just her bust, arms, and legs. What do you think?
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Read more: Thankful Thursday
Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] It’s Thursday and I’m thankful for… Dinner with friends. A new Meg Langslow book from Donna Andrews, Stork Raving Mad Being able to do gardening and such….and to take it easy when I’m sore the next day ;) Work easing off after June. World cup is nearly over :)
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Read more: Quote(s) of the Day: Fat Acceptance
Quote(s) of the Day: Fat Acceptance
This is a movement about the basic and fundamental civil rights that all people deserve, something that has been stripped away from fat people due to fat phobia and discriminatory practices on an individual, cultural and institutional basis. — from Fat Waitress I write a lot about my life, because there’s a hell of a lot of disinformation out there about what it is to be superfat. …
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Read more: Music Monday: Let It Ring
Music Monday: Let It Ring
And the strife will make me stronger As my maker leads me onward I’ll be marching in that number So let it ring I’m gonna let it ring to Jesus Cause I know he loves me too And I get down on my knees and I pray the same as you Let it ring, let it ring ‘Cause one day we’ll all be free Let it ring…
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Read more: June at Living 400lbs
June at Living 400lbs
Most of the most-read posts in June were from previous months, but then I didn’t post a lot in June. But here’s the ones that did get a lot of readers: Weight Loss Expectations Fat Birth Control “But you’re thin!” Expectations (and Risks) of Weight Loss Some search terms that made me smile: fat pleasures can fat people dress goth a day in the life of an…
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Read more: Science doesn’t understand? Or doesn’t ask?
Science doesn’t understand? Or doesn’t ask?
A blog post on how exercise experiments that replicate on men don’t on women ends with the observation: [W]hen it comes to women, there’s a great deal that sports scientists “just don’t understand.” As if they’ve tried and tried and tried, but women are somehow outside the realms of understanding. Which is bullshit. As the blog post put it: Scientists know, of course, that women are not…
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Read more: Music Monday: Still Catch the Tide
Music Monday: Still Catch the Tide
I first discovered Talis Kimberly’s song Still Catch the Tide (lyrics) on Seanan McGuire’s album Stars Fall Home. The album version features harp, flute, violin, and guitar, and it’s one of my favorites for yoga. This video is of a live performance that’s a bit of a faster tempo…which is likely appropriate for a Monday morning. :) From left to right: SJ Tucker playing drum; Michelle “Vixy”…
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Read more: Fat Birth Control
Fat Birth Control
A friend pointed me to this op-ed on making (at least some) birth control pills available without a prescription. Generally I think that making birth control easier to get is a good thing. I’d also welcome more research on the efficacy of hormonal birth control in fat women. Plus something tells me I’m not the only fat woman who found she had trouble inserting/removing things like…
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