Really quickly — because I’m actually supposed to be writing my novel right now — here’s a hilarious addition to the double standards in weight reporting. Early-Stage Alzheimer’s Could Make People Lose Weight According to EurekAlert, scientists looked at 506 people ranging from those with no memory problems to those with full-blown Alzheimer’s. They found [...]
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Posted by bigliberty on November 23, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/23/fat-double-standards/
Chris Christie’s Too Fat to be President! – Roundup
Recently Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, has been attacked and concern-trolled over his weight; more specifically, that he has the utter gall to fat it around in the political arena. Even though Christie has said multiple times he’s not interested in running for president in the 2012 elections, it appears that trying to [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 30, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/30/chris-christies-too-fat-to-be-president-roundup/
Harvest the Fatties as Horse Meat, and Other Gems of the Moral Panic
Today I saw one of the most inflammatory articles about the ‘obesity epidemic’ that I’ve seen in a while. It is an article that talks about how the ‘overweight and obese’ are more numerous than the hungry, planet-wide. What’s truly alarming is that the International Federation for the Red Cross, a well-known humanitarian group, is [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 23, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/23/harvest-the-fatties-as-horse-meat-and-other-gems-of-the-moral-panic/
“Better Human” = Not Obese!
Take a lookie at this steaming pile of Healthistic smugness: Can Running Make Us Better Humans? Yes, it does suggest that avid exercisers are objectively better moral humans. Yes, it does suggest that fat people, who obviously don’t run, are objectively worse moral humans. The Tarahumara, he avers, know something that those of us living [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 20, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/20/better-human-not-obese/
On What Isn’t Ground-Breaking
A fat person, or former fat person, buying into the ‘healthy weight’ mysticism is not ground-breaking. In fact? It’s downright mainstream. A fat person, or former fat person, blaming themselves for how our culture (mis)treats fat people and (mis)characterizes the fat experience is not ground-breaking. We are (mis)fits, after all, in that we are outliers, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 9, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/08/09/on-what-isnt-ground-breaking/
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/
Shaking the Foundations of Conventional Beauty
This morning Kath at Fat Heffalump had yet another brilliant post about the Freedman/Cannold debacle. If you aren’t familiar with the rights of the debacle, they are, in a nutshell: Freedman says some not-so-nice things about fat people and fatness on Twitter. Specifically, Dr Samantha Thomas broke an ironic screenshot of Freedman saying, “If you [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 31, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/03/31/shaking-the-foundations-of-conventional-beauty/
Photoshop Used to Make People Skinnier
This should be required watching for all size activists. This is what we’re up against — it’s so, so easy to do this, it’s considered as standard in photo editing as removing blemishes or an unwanted seagull from the picture. Blargh. TRIGGER WARNING: It’s not as extremely fat-hating as I’ve heard, but it’s not fat-friendly. [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 10, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/08/10/photoshop-used-to-make-people-skinnier/
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/
The Mia Freedman Debacle, or, Why Moral Panics Need Strawmen
Bri King of Fat Lot of Good, fellow Fat Acceptance blogger and general advocate, recently came under fire as she found herself daring to push back against a so-called body image activist allowing virulently anti-fat comments on a recent post about feederism. Bri has since been asked to comment for articles in several Australian news [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 13, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/13/the-mia-freedman-debacle-or-why-moral-panics-need-strawmen/
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