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/
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 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/
The Fat Balancing Act
This is a post initiated by Raznay’s “Some Studies Show Fat Is Bad… Mmmkay?” on the never-ending oodles of studies trying in every which way to investigate just why “fat people are so disgusting.” It discusses the implications of the mindset which is generated by assumptions made in these studies — that is, how fat [...]
Posted by bigliberty on April 18, 2011
http://biglibertyblog.com/2011/04/18/the-fat-balancing-act/
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/
Real Fucking Fat Acceptance
(this post has NO TRIGGER WARNINGS, no diet ratings, or anything. It’s just FA, baby.) There is an unavoidable plethora of diet-talk, fat-negative-talk, and pro-weightloss-intervention-speak nearly everywhere in Western society. What actual fucking fat acceptance (FA) does is first off give you a break from all of that. Secondly, it challenges those negative, hurtful, and [...]
Posted by bigliberty on March 6, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/03/06/real-fucking-fat-acceptance/
On Obesity Increasing Health Costs
This is related to the study linked to and commented on by Bri at Fat Lot of Good: Few things I noticed: The percentages skew towards the obese: Of the 11 247 participants examined in the 1999–2000 AusDiab study, data were available in the 2004–2005 follow-up survey for 6140 (54.1% female; mean age, 56.5 years). [...]
Posted by bigliberty on February 28, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/02/28/on-obesity-increasing-health-costs/
The Problem with “Peer Review”
I just came across this article mentioned in the comments on this post at Sociological Images. I think it’s really interesting, and is of definite value in the determination of what is real, and what is not real, regarding the science of body size. In Search of an Optimal Peer Review System, by Richard Smith, [...]
Posted by bigliberty on January 3, 2010
http://biglibertyblog.com/2010/01/03/the-problem-with-peer-review/
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