My doom is sealed. In a fun way ( Read more... )

The Diet Fix by Dr Yoni Freedhoff.

Dr Freedhoff is also the author on my of my favourite blogs, Weighty Matters. He's an Ottawa physician who now specialises in weight loss, and was -for full wow! factor- one of the people behind Disney quickly dismantling their cruel-to-fat-kids Habit Heroes or whatever it was called exhibit ( Read more... )

How Washington lost the war on childhood obesityWhat a stupid headline ( Read more... )

Why did I read the comments? WHY? How stupid can I get? (Don't answer that. That was a rhetorical question.)

I was reading this little bit of revolting insanity: With Classroom Breakfasts, a Concern That Some Children Eat TwiceJesuseffingChrist. We're talking poor kids, who may be hungry, but cut off the food, because OMG! Obesity! OMG! FAT KIDS ( Read more... )

The Fat TrapThis is why I knelt there, in the small bathroom with red linoleum in my apartment in France, with my wash basin filled with warm water in the shower stall and a razor blade in my hand, hating myself for not even having the courage to kill myself. I've never lost that hatred ( Read more... )

The concept of "privilege" is one that is, I think, difficult to see from the inside. I mean, I'm, pretty much, an upper middle class white woman. I have loads of privilege related to that. I'm fat, so I lose some. I have lived as a kinda non-privileged person (in France), so I know a bit about prejudice ( Read more... )

Every day I get a mailing from Amu Garg (whom I've seen at my local library, he lives near here..)'s A.Word.A.Day. I've been getting that email, on one account or another, for almost as long as it's been going on, since 94 (They started in March, I got on that summer.). Anyhow, they used to include what they called the X-Bonus, a short quote, but ( Read more... )

Study: Healthful diet may be too costly for some Americans.

Really? I'm shocked! Fruit, and veggies are more expensive than processed crap? And -OMG I can hardly beleive that!- people with the less money were furthest from meeting daily nutrient recs, and the people who spent the most? Were closer! Whoa! Can you imagineOne more study states the ( Read more... )

Horrifying new product alert - body fat scales for children.

It's a blog post by Dr Yoni Freedhoff. Dr Freedhoff is, imo, not much into HAES, however from his blogging, I'd say he is one of the more reasonable people out there, aware that being fat isn't quite as simple as some people like to claim. He is also not a victim of the moral panic about ( Read more... )

Found via Harriet Brown.



She stopped eating for three days. At 11. She stopped eating. Despite what the fat-haters would like you to believe, you stop eating, you die. Of course, judging by some of the virulent fat hatred I've seen on the internet, that might actually be the preferred outcome as far as the haters are concerned ( Read more... )