Category: quotes
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Things to Read
No comments on Things to ReadFrom Marianne Kirby at The Rotund: FA represents a long chain of people coming to the realization that the diet roller coaster is, to mix my metaphors, a sucker bet. The diet industry – when you get down to the bare, capitalist bones of it – has quite a lot of profit to be made from making people, especially women, feel awful about their bodies and their…
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Another HAES Quote
This quote on Health At Every Size is from Michelle, aka The Fat Nutritionist. Links within the quote were added by me. [D]ieting purports to make all people lose weight, permanently. Because 80-95% of the people who engage in it do not lose weight permanently, dieting fails as an intervention. It fails to achieve its stated directive, and it also doesn’t seem to help people permanently pick…
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Fat Acceptance Quote for Parents and Teachers
If you exercise as “punishment” for weighing too much, how can you learn to enjoy being active? If you eat salads only as a way to change the body you hate, how will you enjoy the wonderful tastes of fresh vegetables? Besides, if hating one’s body effectively motivated change, do you really think there would be many heavy people in the world? Accepting yourself as you are…
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Michelle Obama: Let’s Harm Fat Kids
If you haven’t read Kim Brittingham‘s piece on Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign, you really should. When we frame our battle for healthier children as a battle against fatness itself, we’re merely proclaiming open season on fat people. We’re encouraging an already fat-prejudiced society to further demonize those who bear the fat – worst of all, the children who bear it. And: Look at it this…
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Quote(s) of the Day: Fat Acceptance
This is a movement about the basic and fundamental civil rights that all people deserve, something that has been stripped away from fat people due to fat phobia and discriminatory practices on an individual, cultural and institutional basis. — from Fat Waitress I write a lot about my life, because there’s a hell of a lot of disinformation out there about what it is to be superfat. …
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Worth Reading
I was damaged as a result of being a fat kid, certainly; however, what damaged me was not my fat, but the messages I received about fatness. I was damaged by both perceiving myself and being treated by others as inferior, an object, something in need of repair, and not a person worthy of basic respect. I was seriously damaged by the endless dieting, such that I…
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Confession
I am dependent on food.* I truly believe that I need food to continue living.** Further, despite weighing 401lbs (yes, I own a scale) I eat every day. Even multiple times a day.*** Oh: and I think eating food when I’m hungry is a healthy and normal thing. Bwah! Clearly I am the destroyer of worlds! *Yes, I’m making fun of MeMe Roth‘s statement that “we’re behaviorally…
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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. “Most of the change we think we see in life is due…
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Diversity Quotes
If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. – George Aiken My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. – Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
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Letting Go
One thing about growing up: you learn how to let go of things, too. Sometimes it’s all happy, sometimes it’s bittersweet, sometimes it’s an ugly, ugly loss. Sometimes it’s “I let it go” and sometimes it’s “It was ripped away from me” – but it’s gone, and you have to deal with that. What brought this to my mind today was the song Sycamore Tree by singer/writer/cartoonist Seanan…
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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 would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn’t require…
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Nice analogy on obesity frequency
Not new, but I’m quoting it anyway because I like it :) From an article on the obesity “health crisis” in the International Journal of Epidemiology: Imagine that the average IQ was 100 and that five percent of the population had an IQ of 140 and were considered to be geniuses. Now let’s say that education improves and the average IQ increases to 107 and 10% of the population has…
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Quotes
“Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” — Henry David Thoreau …and now…the sun is shining today (not raining, not overcast, not shining through clouds and fog – shining) so I am going for a walk. Toodles!
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Quotes
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all. You can’t let them stop you.” — Rita Mae Brown The above is a quote from the novel Venus Envy. I have it memorized. Some people know Brown for…
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Quotes
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.” — Albert Einstein This popped up on iGoogle’s quote of the day feature and I liked it.
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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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