… come to find out that she’s been regularly hanging out for quite some time on a rather hideous anti-FA site (one regarding spouses, gah). I totally feel stabbed in the back, especially since she’s apparently gotten into the habit of linking my posts there and saying some completely bizarre things about me. With friends like these, who needs enemas? :P

I know some very personal motivations of hers to not want that study debunked, but even after all she’s done, i’m not the kind of person to go spilling those sorts of beans.

Let them live on the river (De Nial). We’ll be here in the shade having mai tais. Who’s with me?

The story behind it is that a former “friend” (read: LJ acquaintance) and i were having a discussion (read: argument) about FA stuff. The conversation ended when she linked the Nurses Study as proof of obesity being ZOMGBAD and said, “and please don’t try to debunk it. my health is VERY important to me, I can’t afford to start eating nachos for the sake of a clever rebuttal.”

When someone says something like that, what else can you say except “fuck you, have a nice life”?

I was filled with so much AAAAAAAAAAAA over so many different aspects of those statements that i had to channel it into something productive or just spontaneously combust. I’m glad it actually WAS productive and helpful. The alternative would have had a great many more invectives.

So close, yet so far…

My favorite is this quote near the beginning: “An anti-obesity group said regardless of genes, a balanced diet and exercise were vital to good health.”

No kidding. It’s true regardless of weight, too.
not to mention that part of eating a balanced diet is eating, uh, enough.

sigh

And yeah, Lindsay really did a remarkable job. I’d been fuming about many of the same misconceptions but could really only manage a strangled screaming noise.

I do really appreciate that Lindsay took the time to address those issues though. You have to let some semantic things go in favor of getting the message across in more mainstream channels… but there has been enough chatter about FA lately that some of the “not quite right” ideas she addressed were seeming to gain more traction than they should have. Not that I’m sure any of us are surprised that a Fox morning show talking head would have trouble understanding FA beyond “they hate skinny girls and think they should eat a sandwich!”

Come to think of it, my amazement at Rachel and Mo’s performance is renewed. I wouldn’t have been able to make any intelligent points in that environment, much less the tons of great stuff they got across.