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By: Patricia t.

Patricia t. — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:59:30 +0000

So the birth Defect one… Your baby will have a greater chance of having a defect if your obese…. but dont try to lose weight before hand because that may also be a cause for birth defects….

So what, am i not supose to have kids at all?!

By: wriggles

wriggles — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:50:47 +0000

I couldn’t help laughing when Mr de Lemos states, It’s a day-to-day, meal-to-meal battle, but it’s worth fighting.
The are interestingly enough no figures quoted except the number of participants and their average age. It’s all inferred.
I’m also amused by mia’s comments, we shouldn’t eat anything, and we shouldn’t eat it every other day, plus another dig at fat people, even though it’s about waist-to-hip ratio. I’d comment, but they never seem to publish my comments.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article2253703.ece

By: Jackie

Jackie — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:57:31 +0000

I thought The Onion peice was very clever, I also am surprised to see they’re now doing live news parodies.

The idea was that they’re parodying the idea that people think the thin people are the ones who all are complaining about obesity. Then the fat girl says, I don’t really think that works. Then later after talking about shaming fat people, she’s eating. The point being that in alot of cases, the constant harrassment about Obesity either will make people eat more, or hate themselves more, or both. So humilating obese people is completely useless in fighting obesity. Yet here we are.

I also liked the comment about, changing the image of starving children in 3rd world countries. To hey, those starving children are having fun!

By: cp

cp — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:49:30 +0000

Looking at the actual paper wriggles mentioned, and the one in which they developed their method (from 2005), I would wonder whether there is a difference in sugar metabolism between the two groups.

The 2005 paper had 12 and 17 subjects in two different sections. They mentioned that intake predicted 72% of urinary sugar values, but didn’t mention the actual BMIs of the subjects.

And 12 or 17 subjects is just crap.

Kate, if you want these, drop me a line and I’ll send them to you.

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The-f-word.org » Blog Archive » Historical visions of beauty: Part One — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:01:17 +0000

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By: wriggles

wriggles — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:25:44 +0000

Oh yes, the link works Apologies again, I’m a bit of a sorry soul today!

By: wriggles

wriggles — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:24:08 +0000

If you’re talking about that quote Kate I wish I was, it actually chilled me when I read it.

By: kateharding

kateharding — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:19:22 +0000

Wriggles, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

By: kateharding

kateharding — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:18:49 +0000

Rather than the likely truth that the fat kids were probably so fed up with being hounded about their size, they needed a mental health break. Or so stressed out they got physically ill. I missed a ton of school starting with adolescence, both because I was pretty sickly and because some days I just couldn't face it. In retrospect, I think both can be chalked up to stress. But yeah, one way or another, I tried to get out of school pretty much every day of seventh grade, which was the year I was being bullied constantly. It must have really been because I was fat and lazy, though.

By: wriggles

wriggles — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:16:19 +0000

Sorry I couldn’t link straight to this, here’s a choice quote:

“These results show what many have suspected for some time: obese people are not able to tell us what they actually eat.”

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/NewsViewsAndEvents/News/MRC003902