I have been reading the article on Junkfood Science here: Children hungry to lose weight One of the recommendations of “Hungry for Success” is so-called “lock-ins” of high school students during lunch-time, so they can’t leave the campus (and get that fatty fat fat McDonald’s food which is obviously CAUZING TEH FATZ THINK CHILDREN OMG). [...]
All posts for the month January, 2008
“Lock-in” the Fatty Fat Fats
Posted by bigliberty on January 30, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/30/lock-in-the-fatty-fat-fats/
Are these assertions even true?
Reading an article this morning on the recovery from anorexia, I stopped to actually look on the bottom bar of my browser to see where the little underlined key-word links went to. I hovered over the word “fat” and saw it linked to an NYTimes nutrition page. Here’s one section of the ‘article’ on fat: [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 28, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/28/are-these-assertions-even-true/
Exposing MeMe Roth…
View MeMe Roth’s site: National Action Against Obesity MeMe Roth’s supporters include: Weight loss industry members: 1. Ultra Metabolism – “The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss” Description: This is a weight loss industrial site. I’m sure they just love MeMe’s message. A quote from the site: “I lost 30 lbs, went back to a [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 28, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/28/exposing-meme-roth/
“Wow, you wear it really well!”
Isn’t it funny how other people’s weight issues shine through when they’re kindly trying to apologize for yours? My latest trip to the doctor’s office – a physical, about three months ago – began with the ‘dreaded’ scale routine. I put ‘dreaded’ in single quotes because it is not so dreaded by me now. See, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 28, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/28/wow-you-wear-it-really-well/
Welcome to Big Liberty
Inspired by the Fat-o-sphere (though not always agreeing with its politics), I decided to make the first Fat-o-blog with a distinctively libertarian bent. Advocacy details: 1. “Health at Every Size” – HAES 2. Pro-logic (i.e., Anti-pretention) 3. Pro-freedom, pro-markets (i.e., Anti-fascist, anti-statist) 4. Anti-Baloney (i.e., #1, Anti-trolls)
Posted by bigliberty on January 24, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/24/big-girl-made-small/
Acknowledgments
Thanks to: Rachel &co on the Fatosphere, The New York Times for featuring the article on fat bloggers, Gina Kolata and her book, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss–and the Myths and Realities of Dieting My dad for showing me what yo-yo dieting can do to a person, and my stepmother, for accepting [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 24, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/01/24/hello-world/
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