Living ~400lbs

Tag: fat

  • Opting Out Of The Illusion Of Immortality

    Deb Burgard has a terrific post on the latest “being fat makes you die, damnit” study.  Masters’ central argument seems to be that even though the repeated findings for decades of rigorous research (reviewed by Flegal, 2013) has found that BMI and mortality are only weakly correlated, and that higher BMI may actually correlate with longevity…

  • Harriet Brown on Weight Bullying by Parents

    [Discussion of bullying and weight punishments; feel free to skip.] Harriet Brown has a piece in the New York Times Well blog on “Feeling Bullied by Parents About Weight“: Parents and other adults who are “only trying to help” may do harm rather than good, as a recent study from the journal Pediatrics makes clear. It…