Go read this fucking awesome post by Joanna at Dead of Winter: The Truth is Radical It will blow your fucking socks off. It’s so old-school FA, I’m all a-quiver like it’s 2007 again. Dammit, I miss Junkfood Science! Some candy: Instead of feeling liberated with the knowledge that I was not a failure or [...]
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The Fucking Awesome Truth
Posted by bigliberty on July 31, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/07/31/the-fucking-awesome-truth/
Big Calorie Brother is Watching You, Fat Kids
In the annals of creepy monitoring of calorie counts, this expensive taxpayer-funded measure to study the calorie intake of children via photographing their lunch trays and ‘their leftovers’ is way up there: Calorie Camera: Schools Photographing Students’ Lunch Trays Health officials trying to reduce obesity and improve eating habits at five San Antonio elementary schools [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 12, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/05/12/big-calorie-brother-is-watching-you-fat-kids/
Weight- and Looks-Bullied Minnesota Girls Fulfill Suicide Pact
This is so sad. Thanks to my husband for emailing the link as soon as he saw it — we’re the parents of teenage girls and are extraordinarily alarmed by the prevalence and virulence of appearance- and weight-based bullying. These poor girls were only 14. They hadn’t even begun their mature lives, and they already [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 21, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/21/weight-and-looks-bullied-minnesota-girls-fulfill-suicide-pact/
More on the irrational obesity crusade
I saw a great piece out of Cato not too long ago that I’ve been meaning to link. It also references an upcoming book by the authors Patrick Basham and John Luik: Diet Nation, Exposing the Obesity Crusade. How the War on Obesity Went Pear-Shaped One gem in particular, which should get you to want [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 15, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/03/15/more-on-the-irrational-obesity-crusade/
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/
Quick Hit: My designs would look strange on fat people…
Here’s a great post by Elisa & Bucky the Wonderdog over at Diary of a Mad Fatshionista. The question she asked designers was, Would you ever consider designing for a woman my size? So I asked Mr. Kostetsos this question, including the request that he not say “fashion is for everybody.” I did not have [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 20, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/20/quick-hit-my-designs-would-look-strange-on-fat-people/
The Obesity Epidemic is a Moral Panic, FTW!
A quick hit today, for anyone who’s still wondering whether the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ is really a phenomenon rooted in concern over public health, or has reached the fever-pitch of a moral panic: (h/t Corpulent) Negative attitudes towards obese people are based on an emotional response of disgust, a new study suggests. Previous research had [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 19, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/19/the-obesity-epidemic-is-a-moral-panic-ftw/
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/
First Lady Releases Child Obesity Recommendations
…largely blames mothers for child’s obesity. cue shock and surprise Link to the AP article Some particular gems (note throughout these that the child omgbesity is referred to, without challenge, as “the problem”): Mrs. Obama has said she wants to help solve the problem in a generation so babies born today will come of age [...]
Posted by bigliberty on May 11, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/05/11/first-lady-releases-child-obesity-recommendations/
Predictions: American Health Care and Fat People
Now that the ‘reform’ of Healthcare, i.e., delivering 1/6th of the American economy into the hands of government, has passed the House and been signed by the President, I want to make a prediction or two. These predictions are nothing new for this blog, and if you’re interested in my more general thoughts of the [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 24, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/03/24/prediction-american-health-care-and-fat-people/
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