And liberty, everywhere. In Dundee, Scotland, fat kids from a non-neglectful household are being put up for adoption by the state because their parents failed to ‘slim them down.’ Seriously. Fuck. I’ve written a few times about how the loss of the individual right to body autonomy and the moral panic over fat can lead [...]
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A Bad Day for Fat Liberty
Posted by bigliberty on September 7, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/07/a-bad-day-of-fat-liberty/
On Mother’s Day 2011, Hate for Fat Moms in Abundance
I’ve been tweeting up a storm this Mother’s Day morning, all on the #thingsfatpeoplearetold hashtag. Not about anything particularly new, or some fat-hating piece released this morning, but rather on the messages about fat motherhood and mothering fat children I’ve heard in some context or another during the past few years. Full disclosure: I’m not [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 8, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/05/08/on-mothers-day-2011-hate-for-fat-moms-in-abundance/
Food Addiction the Next Focus of Obesity Epipanic
In a study posted online that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the response of 48 healthy young women in response to cues signaling impending delivery of a highly palatable food (chocolate milkshake) vs. a tasteless control solution; and consumption [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 6, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/06/food-addiction-the-next-focus-in-obesity-epipanic/
On the 1% increase of obese and overweight in the US
If you haven’t yet seen the article from Reuters: More than 70 million US adults obese, US agency says And here’s a link to the actual CDC report Hey look, the obesity level in the US is remaining steady! Oh wait, the article didn’t say that? The carefully timed flood of press releases on a [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 4, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/08/04/on-the-1-increase-of-obese-and-overweight-in-the-us/
BMI of Every US Citizen to be Tracked
Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 15, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/07/15/bmi-of-every-us-citizen-to-be-tracked/
Eugenics Rears Its Ugly Head, Again
When you deliver your body to the State, expect the State to start: Making you do things Preventing you from doing things In other words, if you hand your body over to someone else, that someone else will claim the right to control it. Today I was rudely reminded that eugenics, one of the nasty [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 22, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/01/22/eugenics-rears-its-ugly-head-again/
Quick Hit: The Myth of the Obesity Tsunami
A great Op-Ed is out today from Cato: The Myth of the “Obesity Tsunami” Here are the last three paragraphs, but I encourage you to read the whole piece. No Sanity Watchers’ points required! The findings of the English survey not only contradict the claim that we are in the midst of an obesity epidemic, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 19, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/01/19/quick-hit-the-myth-of-the-obesity-tsunami/
Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants
In every good moral panic one needs a deviant group on which to blame the ills of the current moral (financial, political) crisis. Since moral panics seek to fix some broken part of society, it makes sense that a group of people is singled out to symbolize the ills associated with the crisis. Since the [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 27, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/27/case-building-making-fatties-the-deviants/
When Other People Pay For It, They Can Claim the Right to Control It
I’ve said this several times before, but it bears repeating: when other people can make a reasonable argument that they are paying for the choices you make about your body (even if those choices are only perceived choices), then they can claim the right to have a say in your choices. Take the furor over [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 19, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/19/when-other-people-pay-for-it-they-can-claim-the-right-to-control-it/
Government Healthcare is Bad for Fat People
Why? Read the links on this page. While employers can currently establish plans that incentivize weight loss, it’s not illegal and/or will not cause your taxes to go up to decide not to participate in such programs. Additionally, there is some measure of direct voting by employees — complaining about the plan, leaving the business [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 4, 2009
http://biglibertyblog.com/2009/11/04/government-healthcare-is-bad-for-fat-people/
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