Posted on January 31, 2008 by fillyjonk
You guys, it’s such a total paranoid conspiracy theory that diet and pharmaceutical companies have ANYTHING to do with the obesity hysteria.
I mean, if that were true, wouldn’t they be bringing in just TONS more money these days?
(Via Unapologetically Fat.)
Also, the Duh Truck has visited again for another shipment. Turns out the moral panic [...]
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Posted on January 31, 2008 by Sweet Machine
We all know about potatoes, the silent killer, and the horrors of drinking milk, the silent killer, thanks to certain Fox-friendly doctors and the groundbreaking work of The Health Institute of Nutrition. And while the “be healthy by getting skinny even if you’re genetically inclined to be fat which is sorta okay if you’re pretty [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by fillyjonk
Two of us are super swamped and one of us (Kate) is currently out of town, so you may not be seeing a lot of posts this week. In order that there be something to entertain you, however, I introduce this short piece of fluff.
A friend of mine had a theory that everyone is [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by fillyjonk
Roni Caryn Rabin is quickly becoming the fatosphere’s new best friend, perhaps the more wired-in version of Gina Kolata. On the heels of the fatosphere article, Rabin linked to SP/F-word side project First, Do No Harm in a Washington Post article on fat prejudice in medicine and the assumptions that doctors make about their [...]
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by kateharding
I hate him for propagating one of the dumbest fatty stereotypes. But I also luff him.
moar cute puppy pictures
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Posted on January 30, 2008 by kateharding
Al [playing with dog]: What is this?
Me: What?
Al: Solly has a lump on his chest.
Me: It’s just a fatty tumor.
Al: Oh… Solly, have you tried diet and exercise?
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Posted on January 29, 2008 by fillyjonk
Frequent commenter (and author in her own right) Alexandra Erin has been cracking you up with her mordant wit for a while now. But she has absolutely fucking outdone herself with the new website for The Health Institute for Nutrition, a project to which I dearly hope she will let me contribute even though [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by kateharding
It’s over!
Question for readers who saw it (I haven’t yet): can somebody tell me around what time in the program they came on? [Answered, thanks.] The awesome Petulant recorded it and has offered to YouTube the relevant bits for us, but we don’t want to make the poor thing sit through the entire show. [...]
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Posted on January 28, 2008 by fillyjonk
Okay folks, you asked for it, so over the weekend I set up a Shapely Prose store with t-shirts and sundry other merchandise! We’re starting out with five T-shirt designs, some of which are on other items like mugs or buttons, and a few kinds of stickers. At the moment, there are three [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2008 by kateharding
To see Rachel and Mo Pie on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet tomorrow!
Oh, yeah, and MeMe Roth. Pass the popcorn.
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