Happy New Year to all my readers! It’s been quite a year. I’m not as against resolutions as some, though I believe the patented New Year’s Resolution [TM] is a gigantic marketing scheme, meant to frighten or shame you in order to sell various methods to achieve eternal Youth, Beauty, and Goodness. The Annual Drumbeat [...]
All posts for the month December, 2008
Happy New Year!
Posted by bigliberty on December 31, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/31/happy-new-year/
Suspected suicide’s weight loss chronicled in articles
I guess there’s no situation left too sacred for trumpeting a before-and-after weight loss success story. Not even when reporting on a suspected suicide. The first few lines from HeraldTribune.com: The family of a Winter Haven woman who apparently fell from a cruise ship issued a statement Monday saying they fear she took her own [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 31, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/31/suspected-suicides-weight-loss-chronicled-in-articles/
What I eat, and how much I exercise
I’m sure many of you wonder how much (and what) I eat, and how much I exercise. For someone who myth-busts the health-claims made in support of losing weight, and so forth, I should be interested in some way of being healthy and living the longest and happiest I can, correct? That is, in fact, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 29, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/29/what-i-eat-and-how-much-i-exercise/
A Healthist Holiday Carol
A Healthist Holiday Carol by BigLiberty at bigliberty.wordpress.com I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, I gulp naught but Diet Coke. I run marathons with glee (and I’m on my seventh knee). Who needs love? Who needs art? Or diplomas? A la carte? There’s no time to get those things, when I’m running, running rings! On [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 29, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/29/healthistholidaycarol/
Obama’s focus on “health”
Here’s a quote from a recent story about Obama’s fitness regime, in the Washington Post: For the small group of reporters tasked with following Obama’s every move, his fitness has become a running joke repeated in the stories they file. They sit at McDonald’s while he exercises in Hawaii. They eat calorie-rich scones while he [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 27, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/27/obamas-focus-on-health/
On paralleling breast reduction and weight loss
Bri recently wrote a very thought-provoking post on the different perceptions at Shapely Prose between breast reduction and weight loss, in general. She argues that if it is acceptable to get a breast reduction in order to ease discomfort, why isn’t it acceptable to lose weight for the same reason? I agree with what many [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 22, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/22/on-paralleling-breast-reduction-and-weight-loss/
Obesity Tax proposed in New York
Governor Paterson proposes ‘Obesity Tax,’ a tax on non-diet sodas Continuing in the theme of creating a deviant class out of fat people, Governor Paterson of New York will now punish a fat person’s perceived deviance by taxing that fat person’s apparently precious full-sugar sodas. Gov. Paterson, as part of a $121 billion budget to [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 15, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/15/obesity-tax-proposed-in-new-york/
Creating a deviant class: “There’s something wrong with you”
What are the ingredients of a deviant class? First of all, there has to be an easy marker of deviance. You need to be able to look at someone, or know minimal information about them (like where they live, or who their parents were, etc) and then deduce an inherent ‘wrongness.’ Since we live in [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 11, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/11/creating-a-deviant-class-theres-something-wrong-with-you/
Fat and pregnancy: resources for debunking risk factor myths
This blog does not set out to directly debunk the myths surrounding the dangers between fat and health. There are other sites that focus on this, though, as a mathematician, I will from time to time step in and have a few choice words about research-based statistical analyses (which are 80% of the conclusions made [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 7, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/07/fat-and-pregnancy-resources-for-debunking-risk-factor-myths/
Bad Fatty Revolutionary
Good fatties, bad fatties. For a long time there have existed the stereotypes of two groups which exist within the fat acceptance movement. I think the good fatty/bad fatty debate is an important part of outlining how FA can become a more effective movement, by taking a hard look at what kind of discrimination against [...]
Posted by bigliberty on December 2, 2008
http://biglibertyblog.com/2008/12/02/bad-fatty-revolutionary/
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