Category: Media
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Why Are My Eyes Rolling?
9 comments on Why Are My Eyes Rolling?If you want to join the eyeroll, read along. If you’re had your fill of stupidity lately, feel free to pass…
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Rethinking Thin and Mindless Eating
This Reason review of both Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss— and the Myths and Realities of Dieting and Brian Wansink’s Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think does something one doesn’t often see in writing about the efficacy of diets: It recognizes that losing 10lbs is nothing like losing 100lbs. […]
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Cathy: You’ll Fill Out After Childbirth!
For those of you who don’t read Cathy, her noticably fat in-laws have moved in (with no notice). Cathy went to the mall to try swimsuits alone…and ran into her mother-in-law, who’s trying on a larger size of the same swimsuit. MIL: You came shopping to escape me, but of course, you can’t do that! […]
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Today’s Logic Puzzle
In 2005, sources reported that: 3% to 5% of US adults were morbidly obese (BMI > 40) 25% of US adults were obese (BMI > 30) 66% of US adults were overweight OR obese (BMI > 25) Yet newspapers and television tend to illustrate articles about the “OMG Obesity Panic!!1!! Most Americans are fat!!!” with images of […]
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Family, Fat, and Duh
I’m glancing through a study (The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update) (PDF) that Kate tweeted about this morning. It’s pretty dense in a “lot of good information” way and I’m pretty sure I’ll be going back to it later when I can really focus. I skim through sections on employment, health care, education, and […]
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Monday Morning Smile?
Last week at work was much more on the stressful side than I wanted. Usually I pack up the week’s worries when I shut down my computer and neaten my office; this week it was Sunday before I really let go of the stress. Tomorrow I go back. So I’m going to include a few […]
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Fat Yoga in the News
I was surprised to see an article on yoga classes that target fat people in a mainstream newspaper (in this case The New York Times). Overall it’s a good article. The main thrust is that different body types can result in needing to adapt poses. Poses considered standard for those who are fit or slim […]
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HAES in the News
Marianne Kirby & Kate Harding are interviewed in Newsweek’s blog The Human Condition about their book and HAES. Hopefully it will make some people think! In the UK, The Guardian had a piece about Health At Every Size. As Big Fat Blog notes, it’s all HAES 101 stuff, but that’s why it’s good to get it […]
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Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere
Part of me wants to read (not skim) Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere and let it marinate over the weekend and then post a comprehensive, reasoned review.
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I’m Fat! So?
I hadn’t re-read FAT!SO? : Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size in years, but I remembered it was fun, and fun sounded good.
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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. […]
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Using Colonics to Avoid Flu?
Laurel has a post today on this topic and why it’s insane. [H]ave we not given up on the idea that flushing warm water up your backdoor does nothing but clean out feces that was on its way out anyway, just a bit faster? And that for some people, it’s actually bad to persist in […]
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Fat Acceptance in the News
Obese anti-dieting crusaders lead charge for overweight civil rights – not bad, though as Kate noted she’s co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-spherewith Marianne Kirby. TV host: Style could boost healthier image – mostly about What Not To Wear but includes a few paragraphs about Dr Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size. Club nights for plus-size […]
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Clipping: Size Doesn’t Matter in Diversity Woman
Size Doesn’t Matter (PDF), published in Diversity Woman magazine, discusses size discrimination in the workplace. Some of it’s pretty grim, such as the statistic that “[w]omen who are classified as obese generally earn 12 percent less than thin women” and are less likely to be hired. It also notes that “biggest loser” contests are not helpful, […]
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Ah, the 70s…
Not to detract from Fillyjonk’s post, but this rant of Meowser’s on the 70s is spot-on. I didn’t know any vegetarians in the 70s. Yes, “whole wheat” bread was weird, and veggies were limp. A “diet plate” was a hamburger patty, cottage cheese, and a tomato slice. Yes, the diagnosis criteria for diabetes and heart […]
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TV Turn-Off Week
I’ve mentioned that it can be easier to live fat in a thin world if you opt out of diet commercials and TV programs, and here it is, TV Turn-Off Week. More info on TV Turn-Off week is here and WikiHow’s How to Quit Watching TV is here. On the other hand, it’s thanks to TV that we had […]
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Mixed Links
A nice piece on beating stress & angst Contraceptive pills may reduce or prevent muscle growth. From an article on being fat and fit: As long as people see physical activity primarily as a way of losing weight, they are unlikely to keep it up, either because it doesn’t achieve that objective quickly or because […]
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