Category: FatnessInGeneral
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A Few Quotes
These are quotes that have stuck with me lately, so I thought I’d share. “[E]ven extremely obese women still have a longer life expectancy than normal-weight men.” — Paul Ernsberger, Ph.D. “Yet, we are not being inundated with scares about the deadliness of being male, millions aren’t spent to eradicate maleness, and men make up a fraction of bariatric patients.” — Sandy Szwarc, BSN, RN, CCP (commenting…
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Surfing the web…
… and the web ads. Jillian Michaels Ad: How Much Do You Want To LOSE? Me: Do I have to? I mean, our retirement savings are down 33% already! The really annoying ones are the flash animations. Remember the woman who would “shrink” over and over and over and over? I kept running into that one on Yahoo! Mail. I found the distraction maddening. (See also: annoying…
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Overweight Doesn’t Mean Unhealthy, But Lose Weight Anyway!
Sarah Mahoney’s article on MSNBC (and Prevention magazine) looked promising: The overweight debate: Healthy and heavy? Has science overemphasized the danger of a few extra pounds? The article itself? Not so much. It does start off well, noting how people within the CDC’s “overweight” BMI range have longer life expectancies than those at “normal” weights … and adds However, no one’s debating that weight loss can be…
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Can just anyone weigh ~400lbs?
No, I really don’t think most people can weigh 400lbs. My reasoning? The New York Times references a deliberate exercise in weight gain, where prisoners increased their weight by 20 to 25 percent. But it took them four to six months, eating as much as they could every day. Some consumed 10,000 calories a day, an amount so incredible that it would be hard to believe, were…
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Being Fat and Fit
I found this on an “expert q&a” on exercise on the New York Times site with Steven Blair, an exercise researcher and former president of the American College of Sports Medicine. Can someone be fat and fit? Yes. We began in 1995 to look at fitness and fatness as predictors of mortality, separately and together. What we found then, and continue to find in ongoing studies, is…
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Inspiration
Fillyjonk at Shapely Prose reminded me today of one of the immediate inspirations for this blog: Lesley at Fatshionista’s post “THIS IS 300: Taking Pictures, Being Personal, & Weighing 300 Pounds“. One thing that reading some obesity research has given me is to realize that yes, I am an oddity (and there’s nothing wrong with that :) MOST people who are obese are shaped more like Kate…
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“Do the math”: Exercise & Weight loss
It’s something you commonly see. Example: “The average person walking half an hour a day would lose about 13 pounds a year”. Recently a study actually had sedentary folks start exercising an HOUR a day, 6 days a week for a year. One would think they’d lose, what, more than 13 pounds on average, right? Nope. The women lost an average of 3 pounds and the men…
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Fat Women Have Sex Too!
Researchers looking at women age 15-45 (divided into the BMI categories of normal weight, overweight, and obese) found a shocking result: The investigators found no significant differences among the weight groups in sexual orientation, frequency of sexual intercourse, the number of current partners, age at first intercourse, the number of lifetime male partners, or the number of male partners in the previous year. Why, it’s almost as…
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Dykes To Watch Out For
One of the things about being my size is that I don’t see many “people like me” in the media. TV, movies, books…generally if it seems at all like “the fattie” is a joke, not a character, I don’t bother watching or reading it. This does wonders for my sanity, even as it reduces my score on pop-culture quizzes. I do have Dykes to Watch Out For…
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Get active for 3-4 hours a day?
This popped up on Google News’ “Health” tab: Got a fat gene? Get active for 3-4 hours a day Maybe you CAN blame being fat on your genes. But there’s a way to overcome that family history – just get three to four hours of moderate activity a day.
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In context
BMI doesn’t tell you much, but it does tend to show a bell-style curve over a large population. The chart at right, showing population distribution of BMIs from Mississippi in 2003, (source) gives you a rough idea. My BMI is about 60. That chart? Doesn’t even show anyone of BMI 60. The official definition of “obese” used to be based on height/weight tables, which roughly corresponded to Overweight is…
Living ~400lbs 