Category: Dieting/WLS
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Things that won’t necessarily prevent fatness
7 comments on Things that won’t necessarily prevent fatnessThings that don’t necessarily prevent long-term child or adult obesity: Breast feeding Educating parents Weight bullying Banning junk food Banning whole milk Banning soda / pop Dieting Exercise Just something to think about.
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Why I Think Declaring Obesity A Disease is Harmful
It’s inaccurate: A fit fat person is usually healthier than a sedentary thin person. Obese people (BMI of 30 to 34.9) have no greater risk of early death than those of “normal” body size (BMI 18.5 to 24.9). Most people who fit the clinical definition of obese are in the smaller categories. “Normal-weight” people who think they’re fat have a lower quality of life. Why? It distracts from…
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Why It’s Okay To Be Fat: TedX talk from Golda Poretsky
Golda Poretsky of BodyLoveWellness did a TedX talk on why it’s okay to be fat. Here’s a link to the chart she shows on weight and longevity, along with the full text of the paper it’s from.
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Around the web
A useful discussion of how to say the right thing to someone in hospital (or other bad situation.) Christianity Today wonders if antidepressants keep people from God. Fred Clark at Slacktivist responds: No pious jackasses sit around pondering “Should Christians Take Insulin?” No insufferably holier-than-thou idiots pretend it would be deeply spiritual if they said, “Rattlesnake anti-venom can help, but it can also hinder our reliance on Christ.” Or…
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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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What does it say about our society
… that my reaction to feeling low-energy and blah in the morning is “drink coffee” not “eat breakfast”? (And yes, I spent my teen years either on a weight-loss diet or expected to be on a weight-loss diet.)
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Americans Are Fatter Than They Think!
I tweeted this, but I’m just not sure how to fully express the snark this deserves, so I thought y’all might want to give it a try. See, a study has discovered that…drumroll…BMI can be inaccurate!!!! Really!!! You might be fat and not know it!!! (eeek!) And since most people who are “overweight or obese” aren’t actually very fat, increasing the number of people who think they need…
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Ripping off the Yay! Scale
For years, Marilyn Wann has created and sold Yay! scales, used them in anti-diet activism, and written about them online and in her book FAT!SO? : Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size. Others have mentioned Yay! Scales in books as well, including Health At Every Size. Now Kellogg’s is using a very similar scale to sell their “Special K Challenge”. According to The New…
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Weight Cycling Industry
From Deb Burgard comes this amazing post on weight cycling: Why do we call it the “weight loss industry” when what we really get for our time, sacrifice, and money is weight cycling? 19 times out of 20, what we are really purchasing is the experience of weight loss and regain. Imagine if we called it the “weight cycling industry,” and “weight cycling programs.” Would you participate in…
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It’s not the diet. It’s YOU.
From a discussion of celebrity endorsements of diet plans comes this gem from Nutrisystem exec Stacie Mullen: “The dieting public understands that the dieter has a responsibility to comply with the program,” said Ms. Mullen, adding that if the dieter fails, “I don’t think the public blames the program the dieter was on.” And from Zalmi Duchman of the Fresh Diet: “If they don’t do good on it,…
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US Obesity Rates Level Off Again?
Oh, not again. Still. They’ve been level for years, but this time the Journal of the American Medical Association noticed. There’s discussion as to why, such as “people are getting healthier”. Given how dieters often gain weight in the long term, I thought this perspective a bit more realistic: Dr. Ludwig said the plateau might just suggest that “we’ve reached a biological limit” to how obese people…
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Things to Read
This is kind of a mishmash ;) If you’ve seen comments about “dickwolves” and PAX and wondered what it was about, JetWolf has a nice summary. Author Seanan McGuire addressed why fixing the US healthcare system is so terribly, terribly important this week. Seanan has discussed why she needs health insurance here and here. Seanan’s new CD, Wicked Girls, is available for ordering at CDBaby. Alternet has a well-done…
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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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Quote of the Day: Healthcare Providers and Expectations
From an article on healthcare providers stigmatizing fat patients: Healthcare providers also need to readjust their expectations. Getting individuals who are obese down to a normal weight isn’t realistic: Research shows that most people can’t expect to lose more than 10% of their body weight and, more important, to maintain the weight loss over time. Instead of viewing that as a treatment failure and growing discouraged with…
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Dieting Changes How Bodies React To Stress?
At least that’s what seems to happen in mice. As summarized in US News and World Report, Shaving calories triggers molecular changes in the brain that make mice more susceptible to stress and binge eating long after the diet ends, researchers report in the Dec. 1 Journal of Neuroscience. The finding could explain part of the yo-yo dieting phenomenon, in which people repeatedly diet and lose weight…
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Oh, CNN
This blog post got my hopes up with “Dieting gets you nowhere” and then dashed it with the “but it works for kids!” ending. No, people, turning off the TV or passing up a Happy Meal will not automagically turn a fat kid into a slender one. Sorry.
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