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“I’m Not Fat, I Just Have Really Efficient Intestinal Bacteria!”

July 19th, 2010

Or, why “just take in fewer calories than you burn” is not quite that simple. Katsyuri sent in this Newsweek article, discussing how intestinal bacteria may affect the number of calories the body is able to absorb. More efficient bacteria = more calories absorbed = more “calories in” than average. The calories that count are […]

Filed under: Cold Hard Cash, Kids, Science, TV | 16 Comments »

My Lovely Lady Lumps: A Hump-Day Links Roundup

June 2nd, 2010

1. We all know I get ridiculous PR spam, but a real doozy landed in my mailbox yesterday, featuring the top five “Flabulous Celebrity Love Handle Offenders” who can fix their “offensive” love handles with a Spanx-type product that we should all run out and buy too! (Don’t worry, I wouldn’t dream of mentioning the […]

Filed under: Advocacy, Art, Beth Ditto, Beyonce, Books, Britney Spears, Celebrities, Crystal Renn, Fat Positive, Fatism, Feminism, Health, International, Jessica Simpson, Kirstie Alley, Links, Music, Nikki Blonsky, Science, TV | 8 Comments »

The Correlation Between Antidepressants And Weight Gain

January 25th, 2010

A fascinating article in the Boston Globe, called Fattened by Pills, discusses the often-unspoken correlation between taking antidepressants and gaining weight: Many [psychiatric drugs], which are used to treat emotional problems including depression and anxiety, cause weight gain — often of the rapid and massive sort — as one of their “side effects,” that brilliant […]

Filed under: Health, Science, Tidbit | 26 Comments »

Fat-22

January 22nd, 2010

The health risks of obesity may be exaggerated by (or in part caused by) the discrimination of health care professionals. Particularly, of course, when their patients are women. I’ll quote at length; the article really speaks for itself. (Shoutout to Suzy Smith, my Facebook friend, who is mentioned in the article.) Recent studies have found, […]

Filed under: Fatism, Feminism, Health, Science, Tidbit | 19 Comments »

Kill Your Television?

December 15th, 2009

Watching less TV = weight loss! At least that’s what the headlines will be saying about this “not statistically significant” study of 20 people whose TVs were electronically restricted. When their TV watching was cut by half, they burned more calories. Overweight and obese individuals whose TVs were fitted with an electronic “lock-out” device to […]

Filed under: American Idol, Glee, Humor, Science, TV, Weight Loss | 22 Comments »

This Week's Linkage, Your Recs Welcome!

September 27th, 2009

I was catching up on my blog reading this weekend and found two posts I thought were especially worth passing along. First, I really enjoyed Kate’s post, “We Already Know We’re Fat“: “This so-called epidemic is not made up of theoretical fucking people who are just as fat as you can possibly imagine. It’s made […]

Filed under: Health, Meta, Personal, Question, Science, Sex & Romance | 2 Comments »

In Case You Missed It: Thunder Thighs Rule

September 5th, 2009

Although I saw this news about this when Kate Harding Twittered about it, I didn’t get a chance to post the link until today! It’s a story about a study that suggests having larger or more muscular thighs is better than having thin ones. People who have agonised over their fat thighs might be able […]

Filed under: Fat Positive, Health, Personal, Science | 7 Comments »

5 Google Alerts That I Just Clicked On

August 11th, 2009

I’m writing this post in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, after a long and taxing Monday that those of you who follow me on Twitter are sick of hearing about, I’m sure. So my brain is broken, and instead of a real post, I give you… the five Google Alert e-mails that I clicked […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Exercise, Fatism, Humor, International, Links, Magazines, Ricky Gervais, Science, Sex & Romance, Tidbit, Weight Loss | 13 Comments »

"Why Are Americans Fat?"

July 31st, 2009

From Elizabeth Kolbert in The New Yorker comes a comprehensive article attempting to determine the cause of increased obesity in America. She talks about portion sizes: In the early nineteen-sixties, a man named David Wallerstein was running a chain of movie theatres in the Midwest and wondering how to boost popcorn sales. Wallerstein had already […]

Filed under: Fatism, Health, Magazines, Media, Question, Science | 18 Comments »

Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus

July 7th, 2009

From NPR: 1. The person who dreamed up the BMI said explicitly that it could not and should not be used to indicate the level of fatness in an individual. The BMI was introduced in the early 19th century by a Belgian named Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. He was a mathematician, not a physician. He […]

Filed under: Health, Science, Tidbit | 7 Comments »

Magic Imaginary Weight Loss Surgery Is Magic!

July 6th, 2009

I ran across this hilarious article in the always-reliable and utterly trustworthy very serious newspaper, the Daily Mail: a woman in London decided that she wanted to lose weight, and that weight-loss surgery was too risky, but that she would pay a hypnotherapist to trick her into believing she had! At Joh’s first session with […]

Filed under: Diet Talk Warning, Humor, International, Media, Science, Weight Loss, WLS | 21 Comments »

"You Do Not See Fat People In Concentration Camps"

June 8th, 2009

We’ve all read ridiculous examples of hate towards fat people, and I know I shouldn’t be surprised or indignant at this incredibly stupid argument, but OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS. This woman, Deborah Coddington, actually comes out and agrees that anyone can be thin, because people in Nazi concentration camps were thin. I know we’ve […]

Filed under: Fatism, International, NSFW, Science | 100 Comments »

Hydroxycut Causes Liver Damage And Death

May 1st, 2009

The FDA has issued a warning against the diet drug Hydroxycut, which, as it turns out, can kill you. (It killed a teenager in 2007, but apparently the FDA was just alerted to this now.) Other patients experienced symptoms ranging from jaundice, or yellowing of the skin, to liver failure. One received a transplant and […]

Filed under: Advertising, Health, Science, Weight Loss | 25 Comments »

Fast Food Shortcuts & The Big Mac Snack Wrap

April 10th, 2009

I was entertained and sort of fascinated by Mike’s post about the new Big Mac Snack Wrap, currently being tested in Canada, the home of the Maple Leafs, half of Niagara Falls, and Robin Sparkles. The sad, sad, Big Mac Snack Wrap. It is apparently half a hamburger patty with some sauce, pickles, and lettuce, […]

Filed under: Advertising, Diet Talk Warning, Food, Humor, International, Kids, Personal, Science | 23 Comments »

Awesome Childhood Obesity Guidelines Are Awesome

March 25th, 2009

These new guidelines for childhood obesity programs are just amazing. Rachel has them listed at The F Word, complete with highlighting. In this case it indicates not white-hot rage, but happiness. Consider guidelines like… Interventions should focus on health, not weight, so as to not contribute to the overvaluation of weight and shape and negative […]

Filed under: Advocacy, Exercise, Fat Positive, Humor, Kids, Science | 7 Comments »

Obesity Myths From The New York Times

January 28th, 2009

Recently, a reader sent along Gina Kolata’s article from the New York Times discussing some obesity myths that are not news to us, exactly, but good to see in print nevertheless. I think I read it before, but really, it was worth reading again. Many of the so-called facts about obesity… amount to speculation or […]

Filed under: Advocacy, Fat Positive, Media, Science, TV | 24 Comments »

A Reason For Overweight Kids To Exercise?

December 9th, 2008

I don’t think I posted about this, but I do remember hearing a while back that overweight kids are not only more likely to be bullied, but they’re also more likely to be bullies. The topic is coming up again, with a new study showing that “expressions of anger” are reduced in overweight kids who […]

Filed under: Exercise, Kids, Science | 12 Comments »

Poor, Obese Children Not Eating Enough

November 19th, 2008

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 […]

Filed under: Cold Hard Cash, Health, Kids, Science | 18 Comments »

It Never Stopped Me From Gettin' Busy

October 31st, 2008

Fat chicks have more sex than skinny chicks. Sorry, skinny ladies, but it’s science. The story is kind of troubling, though, when you start to look at it up close. The results seem to contradict stereotypes that overweight and obese women have less sex. If anything, the researchers said, the opposite seems to be true. […]

Filed under: Exercise, Fat Positive, Feel Good Friday, Feminism, Science, Sex & Romance | 41 Comments »

New Weight Loss Surgery

October 27th, 2008

I was interested in this New York Times article about a new, “less invasive” weight loss surgery, currently in the experimental stage, in which surgeons go down the patient’s throat and staple the stomach from the inside. In Mexico and Europe over the past two to three years, 98 patients have had the new weight-loss […]

Filed under: Health, Science, Weight Loss, WLS | 22 Comments »

The Celebrity IV Diet

October 17th, 2008

Thought it couldn’t get any crazier than the baby food diet or the swallow a tapeworm diet? While surfing around gossip blogs today, I ran across a reference to celebrities going on an “IV diet.” As in intravenous. Diet. I found the blurb here: One of Hollywood’s dirty little secrets is the ‘IV diet’, in […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Cold Hard Cash, Eating Disorders, Gossip, Health, International, Science, Tidbit, Weight Loss | 16 Comments »

The New York Times On Fat Acceptance

October 6th, 2008

A couple of people have sent me this link this morning, and thank you very much to all of you! The New York Times has written an article about de-stigmatizing fat, the fat acceptance movement, and the genetics of obesity. An absolute must-read. But some activists and academics, part of a growing social movement known […]

Filed under: Advocacy, Fat Positive, Health, Media, Science, Tidbit | 12 Comments »

Positive Eating

September 18th, 2008

How’s this for a concept: Enjoying food instead of dieting, because dieting doesn’t work. It’s a movement! It’s a zeitgeist! Or at least it’s an article in the New York Times: After decades of obsessing about fat, calories and carbs, many dieters have made the unorthodox decision to simply enjoy food again. That doesn’t mean […]

Filed under: Celebrities, Food, Health, Media, Science | 17 Comments »

How Much Exercise Do You Get?

September 17th, 2008

This news article landed in my inbox shortly after I’d read this very funny post at Shapely Prose, and both got me thinking about exercise. At Shapely Prose, Kate writes about a recent article asserting that people who are predisposed to being overweight can avoid being overweight by exercising a mere three to four hours […]

Filed under: Exercise, Health, Question, Science | 82 Comments »

Treadmill Hospital Bed

September 4th, 2008

Wired offers us a look at a hospital bed that’s also a treadmill. But not without making sure we understand that fat people in the hospital—in the hospital—are “immense,” “weak,” and “lazy.” Sick fatties need only to flick a switch to be upended onto the moving conveyor, whence they can exercise their weak bodies and […]

Filed under: Fatism, Magazines, Science, Tidbit | 11 Comments »

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