Category: Dieting/WLS
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Question: Have I considered gastric bypass?
49 comments on Question: Have I considered gastric bypass?This comment came in from Olivia yesterday: i am a new reader to this blog and i am just wondering if you have ever considered getting gastric bypass. i am over 400 as well and i am 18 years old but anyway i dont know if you have posted about this topic. just asking! Depends on the definition of “consider”. I’ve had it recommended to me. …
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Hydroxycut, FDA, and “Diet Supplements”
Hydroxycut, produced by Iovate Health Sciences of Oakville, Ontario, is the latest diet supplement that has been volunarily recalled at the urging of the US FDA. In all, the Food and Drug Administration said it had received 23 reports of significant adverse health effects in people who used Hydroxycut, including one person who required a liver transplant. Other complications included heart problems and a kind of muscle damage that…
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Food for Thought
Rachel’s post on how “food restriction isn’t torture because Americans diet all the time” reminded me of this… A friend requested that I “hold her hand” at a Diabetes Education class this week. I hadn’t realized she’d meant it literally.* I wasn’t really surprised by a lot of it, including when the nutritionist emphasized that carbohydrates are a useful and necessary part of good nutrition and blood…
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Incentives to lose weight?
From The Onion’s satirical corner comes this “man on the street” reaction to the news that the Army has rejected 48,000 would-be recruits for being too fat. So let’s summarize my incentives for losing weight: I’ll be hungry all the time, I’ll be tired all the time, and I’ll qualify for Army service. Not to mention increasing the risk of death, disability, and sexual assault! Gee, I wonder…
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Açaí hits the mainstream…
In this case, The New York Times. Some highlights: Both Oprah Winfrey and Rachel Ray have posted disclaimers on their websites that they do not endorse any açaí product. No studies have shown specific health benefits to eating açaí berries or products. No studies have shown açaí helps in weight loss. The Better Business Bureau has warned consumers “to be wary of online ads relying on celebrity endorsements of…
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Myth: Fat Always = Overeating
[This was originally some rambling from the Susie Orbach post that I felt wasn’t entirely on topic. ] Recently I’ve become aware of several tenets of our culture that so many people believe, but few people articulate: Everyone will naturally have a “normal” ratio between their height and weight. (Example: BMI 25-29.9) Anyone who has a greater or lesser ratio than “normal” is doing something (overeating, not eating, not…
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Woman Upset At Herself For Feeling Hungry
The Onion, for those who don’t know, is a “fake news” organization. Originally it was founded in Madison, Wisconsin as the sort of weekly that covers local news and events – only it would add hefty doses of satire and humor. Much of the humor comes from treating everyday things as newsworthy. “Woman Upset At Herself For Feeling Hungry” is in this vein: MODESTO, CA—Telling friends that…
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Susie Orbach in the New York Times Magazine
Susie Orbach, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue, was interviewed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine this week. In part: Fifi, which is what I call my book “Fat Is a Feminist Issue,” was in part a plea to give up dieting and learn to recognize hunger and appetite and respond to them. Dieting, I argued, caused compulsive eating and destabilizes our relationship to…
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Oh, Right
Remember the post about the FDA’s warning on weight-loss supplements? It’s receiving “comment spam” about newer, better, safer … weight-loss supplements.
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Practicalities
Yes, it is nice that this writer spent 3 pages on how “nanny state” requirements to lose weight violates civil liberties and that ABC picked it up. It would’ve been nice, though, to drop in the fact that diets don’t cause permanent, sustainable weight loss for most people or that the health benefits of dieting tend to be transient. Sure, if losing 5 or 10lbs will move you from…
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How many non sequiturs are IN this one anyway?
This comment came in reply to my review of my review of Health At Every Size: I personally belive that living a comfortable life is a way to longevity, so if you believe that you are over-weight, have the determination to loose the extra fat you dont want, you can do it and never loose focus. Er … I’m confused. I don’t “belive” my life, I…
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Google Health News Surprise
“Dieting now makes you gain weight.” This San Francisco Chronicle article isn’t news for the fatosphere. But it is news, indeed, a pleasant surprise, for Google News. “Dieting is the worst thing people can do if they’re interested in weight control,” said Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor and clinical psychotherapist in the East Bay whose book, “Health at Every Size,” was published in November (BenBella Books). “Dieting seems the fastest…
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January O: Diet As Usual
The January O Magazine arrived in the mail today. It seemed to have a few more diet-and-weight focused articles than usual: A “Let’s Eat Right” article on eating healthy, aka “good foods instead of bad”; A “Numbers to Worry About” article that included that women should have a 32.5-inch waist; Oprah’s “Got heart palpitations due to hyperthyroid then hypothyroid then depressed and oh yeah I got fat…
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Paid to Lose Weight?
Headline: Weight loss easier when you get paid for it. Granted, that is a new spin; usually you just pay to lose. Dr. Kevin Volpp, of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who was concerned that dieting requires deferred gratification and decided to create a a reward system which gave dieters “rewards in the present”. Note the assumption that “the obese” are not capable of deferred…
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Applying “Pro-Choice” to Fat Acceptance
I came to fat acceptance by reading BBW magazine in college. Yes, fashion articles, but also articles on how weight cycling is bad for you and reporting on studies that show dieting tends to lead to weight gain in the long term. I knew that every time I had dieted to lose weight – which I’d done all through jr high and high school – I had…
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