Category: Media
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W00t, w00t I say!!!!
No comments on W00t, w00t I say!!!!Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, by Kate Harding of Shapely Prose and Marianne Kirby aka The Rotund, is available for pre-order on Amazon. :)
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Being fat is just like carrying a heavy backpack, right?
I mean, everyone assumes it is, so it must be, right? Nobody needs to research this because we know what they’d find, right? Studies that simulate obesity in nonobese people suggest that putting on pounds substantially increases the metabolic cost of walking. When lean women walk with heavy, bulky gear strapped to their legs and […]
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Shock: Fitness article that doesn’t mention weight
This near-mythical item appeared in The New York Times, reporting on the US Government’s latest physical activity guidelines. Nothing about how exercising can cause weight loss. Even when discussing beginners, weight loss does not come up: The people who accrue the greatest health benefits from exercise go from doing nothing to doing something. “A one-minute […]
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What’s My Cue?
Remember I posted about Health at Every Size, and one of my follow-ups was that it inspired me to make two changes to my eating habits? Eat foods with more fiber. Plan an afternoon snack. Well, I’ve been doing both of these for a few weeks now. The good: My blood sugar isn’t fluctuating as […]
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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 […]
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Fat Acceptance in the NY Times Sunday Magazine :)
The New York Times Sunday Magazine discovered fat acceptance. There’s a good summary of fat acceptance, down to noting that the word “fat” is used deliberately, same as “queer”. There’s discussion of Linda Bacon’s Health At Every Size study & book. One quote I liked: Asking how someone got to be so fat is […]
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Links!
This 2007 interview with Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size (review here). From New York Times writer Gina Kolata, a discussion of various types of medical studies and how to read them (skeptically). The accompanying graphic is cool too. From Noël Figart, The Unfit Person’s Guide to Fitness. I found this to be […]
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HAES book: BMI & Politics
In her book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight (reviewed here) Linda Bacon recalls her days as a PhD candidate. This was also when the BMI standards were lowered, and, coincidently enough, her mentor, Judy Stern, was a member of the NIH Obesity Task Force.* When I expressed my surprise of the standards […]
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HAES book: “But not dieting is harmful, right?”
You may have read about the study Linda Bacon conducted comparing a standard diet program with a nondieting, “Health at Every Size”-style program, or my post about Bacon’s book (Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight) yesterday. This is a story from the book that I wanted to shout from the treetops. […]
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Linda Bacon’s Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Linda Bacon earned a master’s in psychotherapy, with a specialty in eating disorders and body image, and worked as a therapist before going back to school for a master’s degree in exercise science. Then she completed a doctorate in physiology, with a focus in nutrition and weight regulation. (There’s a reason this book’s 326 pages […]
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A bit more on asthma….
It’s been great hearing that others have run into the “You mean it’s asthma, not just that I’m fat?” experience. Thought you would be interested in this, from the American College of Physicians Home Medical Guide: Asthma …. Main symptoms of asthma: Wheezing: May occur with or without shortness of breath in response to a […]
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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 […]
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