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/
Quick Hit – Does Your Body Belong to You?
An essay by A. Barton Hinkle on Reason.com Does Your Body Belong to You? Some nice quotes: “Perhaps you’ve noticed the trend among certain people these days,” wrote Neil Genzlinger in The New York Times the other day, “to decide that certain other people are not living acceptable lives and must be reformed.” Yes. There [...]
Posted by bigliberty on August 2, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/08/02/quick-hit-does-your-body-belong-to-you/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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/
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