Category: fat acceptance
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QOTD: Dealing with family
4 comments on QOTD: Dealing with familyBecause I don’t engage in fat hating comments or conversations I really just feel more and more like the black sheep from the family. Many of my family members have undergone bariatric surgery so the stress between them and myself is even worse. I have had one cousin who is a lot older than me […]
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Junk Food In Schools Doesn’t Correlate To Fat
Remember how banning junk food in schools was supposed to make fat kids thin? Guess what? No, it doesn’t. At least not according to “Competitive Food Sales in Schools and Childhood Obesity: A Longitudinal Study” in Sociology of Education (January 2012). But of course we should’ve thought it would, right? It’s not like “Snack food intake does not […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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For All The Parents Out There…
Think about how you will react if your child is fat. Over time, if you’re making it clear that you don’t want a fat son or daughter, well, your son or daughter may not be able to stop being fat. But your son or daughter can eventually choose to stop being your son or daughter. […]
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Where did you first encounter fat acceptance?
I first encountered research on Diets only working short-term Yo-yo dieting leading to weight gain Eating well and exercising improving your health, even if you don’t lose weight … in the pages of the 1980s BBW magazine, along with the general idea that you don’t have to be thin to live a happy life. I even […]
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Head, Meet Desk
Ah, emails…. Is it really surprising that I don’t want to hear about the great new diet website? That I don’t want to read a book about weight loss? (No, not even your wonderful revolutionary diet that reveals the hidden secret of weight loss!) That I don’t want to go on a diet? That I […]
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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 […]
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Twitter Party
There’s a bunch of fat folks tweeting about “things fat people are told” – in twitterspeak, #thingsfatpeoplearetold. (The # before makes it searchable.) Some examples: You have muscle? But have you really, really TRIED to lose weight? You’re too fat to do yoga properly, so don’t think you’re REALLY doing yoga. Your allergies (that […]
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Plus-Sized Athletes (with heads)
There’s a story making the rounds on “plus-sized athletes” reacting to the US “Let’s Move” campaign. The fitness community has embraced the first lady’s ‘Let’s Move’ program, but many health experts balk at equating improving health with lowering weight. Fat aerobics instructor Sandy Shaffer and physical trainer GeMar Neloms are interviewed. Dr Kenneth Cooper, a longtime […]
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New HAES Study
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don’t worship it. Feed it. — Aubrey Eben The new Health At Every Size paper, by Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor, is titled Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift. From the abstract: Current guidelines recommend that “overweight” and “obese” individuals lose […]
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Is it a bad sign….
If you’ve played so much solitaire you have a 66% win rate?
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Things I Would Like To Not Care About
I would like to not worry about: Whether a medical professional will consider my symptoms before making a diagnosis. Whether a job interviewer will not hire me because I’m fat. Whether the friend talking about her diet is doing so as a way of passive-aggressively commenting on my body size, eating habits, or perceived dieting […]
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