Category: OtherBlogs
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Things To Read
17 comments on Things To ReadFirst: Unapologetically Fat spotted “Obesity Police’s Shaky Science” in The Baltimore Sun, which starts with: Why is a thin, male smoker considered a physical role model as president but a full-figured African-American woman is considered an embarrassment as his nominee for surgeon general? …and moves on to discuss the recent obesity research that finds that overweight […]
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Quotes to Think On
“Since it has been established that the rate of metabolism, or exchange of food into energy, of the obese is normal, some physiologists have tried to account for the surplus of fat on the grounds of heredity…” — “Fatness May be Hereditary.” The Science News-Letter, Vol. 8, No. 260 (Apr. 3, 1926), p. 4, quoted here. […]
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Things to Read
I liked this article on solitude vs loneliness. I lived alone, or with a cat, for most of 9 years. I learned a lot about self-reliance during that time, and also about how often the difference between solitude and loneliness is attitude. I worked on alleviating loneliness with friends, my cat, and activities […]
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Fun with Search Terms
WordPress tracks what people searched on that led them to this site. “Living 400lbs” is probably the most common one and one I find amazing (people are looking for me!) But some are a bit weird, anothers, well, deserve an answer. “i weigh 350 and i cant work” — Weight is not a disability. Most […]
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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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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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“Provocative, sensationalistic snark”
From today’s Between Friends comic: Kim: There’s a lot more to this blogging stuff than people realize. Kim: It takes more than just intelligent, interesting, critical writing to build an audience. Maeve: You mean marketing? Kim: I mean provocative, sensationalistic snark. Kim: —but marketing’s a good idea too. ;)
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Thankful Thursday
A little exercise in gratitude… 1) The man of the house got his car window fixed today, after it was smashed yesterday… 2) …and the thieves only got away with maybe $15 worth of electronics.* 3) Got the deck cleaned up a bit last weekend. Tomorrow night I’ll be digging out more of the […]
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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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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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Things Worth Reading
Do you know your upper arm size in centimeters? Well-Rounded Mama has a great post on how the wrong blood-pressure-cuff size can cause misdiagnosis and over- or under-treatment. (Mine is 48.) Margaret Cho’s “diet” where you eat what you want, you don’t have to eat anything you don’t want, and you can buy […]
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The most significant “lifestyle” cause of death and disease
We focus so much on weight, especially women. Magazines, TV shows, news, advertising, government programs. We focus on diet and exercise to “improve” our weight, but really we’re trying to improve ourselves. Yet we don’t focus on getting richer or better educated.
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Fat Clothing Catalogs…
In my experience, there are two kinds of companies that put out supersize/extended-size catalogs for fat women: Large companies with mostly imported mass-produced clothing, cheap prices, and a propensity for selling their mailing lists. Quality tends to be uniform. Examples: Roaman’s, Woman Within, Silhouettes, Lane Bryant Catalog. Small specialty companies that only do plus or […]
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I thought this was FAB
From Lesley at Fatshionista, about the “before” Polaroid taken by Jenny Craig in 1991. I looked apparently happy in that photograph, but I was wrong. I looked apparently happy, but upon further reflection, my breasts are slightly uneven, my skin is too dark, my knees are ugly, my hair is windblown. I looked apparently […]
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Writing Quotes
These are for all of us writing out here in the Fatosphere… ;) Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. – Jules Renard The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I […]
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