A story from India, about a 22-year-old woman who killed herself because she was too “obese” to be a good wife. A 22-year-old software professional hanged herself today, apparently depressed that she wouldn’t be a good wife because she was obese. Swati A., a resident of Amberpet, was set to marry a relative. She was [...]

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Okay, these are two shows I don’t watch. But they both had episodes that dealt with plus-sized women last week, and I was interested in talking about them anyway. First, Stylista. I saw a promo for this episode at one point or another, showing a plus-size contestant going into a closet full of designer clothes [...]

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I’ve been feeling a little pessimistic towards government since the whole Prop 8 thing, but my cold black heart has been warmed this morning when I learned that the Canada Supreme Court has ruled that airlines must make additional space available to disabled obese passengers, at no additional charge to them for extra space, so [...]

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Oh, how I wish Youtube hadn’t turned off the embedding on this amazing video (SFW), but you’ve got to watch it because these three girls? Are awesome. And I love them. And now it is my quest in life to be able to do the splits again.

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A new study from the Journal of the American Dietetic Association reveals something interesting (and possibly counterintuitive to many people) about poor, obese children: they aren’t eating enough. Children living in poverty are obese in part because they don’t eat enough to meet the daily nutritional requirements needed for cell function and metabolism, a study [...]

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Oatmealapalooza Originally uploaded by mo pie If you were following my Twitters last weekend, you may have noaticed I was in Chicago, where Quaker Oats hosted an all-expenses paid weekend for a bunch of bloggers who turned out to be mostly food, weight loss, and fitness bloggers. (I say this because I’m about to give [...]

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Jessica at Jezebel wrote a while back about the Glamour magazine diet blog Margarita Shapes Up. What’s disconcerting is the anxious tone that has crept into her posts in recent weeks, culminating in a post about leaving her dad’s birthday party early so that she could go to yoga. It’s clear that she feels a [...]

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I’m happy today. Very very happy. I could be happier, but right now, I’ll take this amount of happy. And because I’m so happy, I absolutely loved this clip from a cable access show called “Goddesses” and because I love you too, I’m sharing it. Consider it a follow up to the jawdropper that fat [...]

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I am far too distracted by the election today to make a coherent post out of this Kate Winslet is-it-or-isn’t-it-photoshopped spread in Vanity Fair. All I have to say is that Kate Winslet is my girlfriend, and if you’re American, I hope you’re rocking the vote today. (And I just saw this Kate Winslet post [...]

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