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/
Show Your Fatty Papers
Recently I got mud on my boots in a popular feminist news blog. The topic was a new weight loss drug, and far be it for me to leave that shit alone. I mocked its promised 11% weight loss (in the short term, since that shit gives you kidney lesions and can’t be taken long [...]
Posted by bigliberty on November 12, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/11/12/show-your-fatty-papers/
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/
More Healthist Doublespeak
The language of Healthism is so intertwined with notions of moral value that we tend to take its dicta as fact. This can lead to unfortunate reporting of scientific results, both by researchers in ‘conclusion’ sections, and by health reporters. The most recent example of this is a study (h/t Regan at Dances with Fat) [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 22, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/22/more-healthist-doublespeak/
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/
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/
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/
Quick Hit: Americans Are Just as Fat Now as 1999-2000
…you know, just after the BMI categories for overweight and obese were revised downwards several points, in effect making millions of Americans overweight or obese overnight. One-Third of American Adults Are Obese, but Rate Slows Figures from the National Center for Health Statistics showed 34% of American adults age 20 and older were obese in [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 14, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/01/14/quick-hit-americans-are-just-as-fat-now-as-1999-2000/
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