This is related to the study linked to and commented on by Bri at Fat Lot of Good: Few things I noticed: The percentages skew towards the obese: Of the 11 247 participants examined in the 1999–2000 AusDiab study, data were available in the 2004–2005 follow-up survey for 6140 (54.1% female; mean age, 56.5 years). [...]
All posts for the month February, 2010
On Obesity Increasing Health Costs
Posted by bigliberty on February 28, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/02/28/on-obesity-increasing-health-costs/
Quick Hit – National Review
Here’s someone outside FA that seems to ‘get it’ in many ways. I’ve been seeing many more libertarian-oriented blogs/magazines/papers utilizing some of the language of FA than usual, in commenting on the latest battle in the War on Fat People. Taking Obesity Too Much to Heart In the movie The Blind Side, the young Oher [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 12, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/02/12/quick-hit-national-review/
Quick Hit: Moral Panics and the Obesity Folkdevil
If you do nothing else today, please read Bilt4Cmft’s post “Stepping Forward Looking Back” and the comments which follow. It is a great setup and discussion about fat people as ‘obesity folkdevils’ in the current obesity epipanic moral panic in which we find ourselves. A quote from my favorite comment, by Miriam Heddy: We see, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 9, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/02/09/quick-hit-moral-panics-and-the-obesity-folkdevil/
Do you avoid going to the doctor?
There’s a great post over at Fat and Sassy, linking a study which concludes fat people of a certain age are hospitalized far more than their thinner peers. A quote from the study: Appropriate primary care could have prevented these hospitalizations, Ferraro said. However, those who are overweight or obese may not have sought regular [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 8, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/02/08/do-you-avoid-going-to-the-doctor/
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