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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Fat Double Standards
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/
Say It: Obesity = Obese People
For a long time bloggers and commenters in the Fatosphere have observed that when most anti-obesity crusaders talk about ‘obesity,’ they’re really talking about ‘obese people.’ There is no such thing as obesity in a vacuum, there are just people who are obese being looked at on a population-wide scale. And the definition of obese [...]
Posted by bigliberty on September 8, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/09/08/say-it-obesity-obese-people/
The Fucking Awesome Truth
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 [...]
Posted by bigliberty on July 31, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/07/31/the-fucking-awesome-truth/
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/
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/
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/
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