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Shapeling RedSonja has a question that we think you all can answer better than we can. Let’s play collective Aunt Fattie!
Here’s the situation:
My boss was telling me the other day that his sister and her children are coming to visit. Apparently she felt both fat and ostracized in high school (I say felt, because he [...]
Filed under: Dieting/WLS, Fat, Food, Sweet Machine | 182 Comments »
Jezebel points us to a maddeningly obtuse series of recent articles about the Obamas’ eating habits. (There’s even an [unofficial] Obama food blog, for the truly obsessive.) Apparently the Obamas are baffling the pundit class by sometimes eating vegetables, and sometimes eating burgers. It’s true! Apparently this magical family is able to eat French freedom [...]
Filed under: Fat, Food, Media, Politics, Sweet Machine | 103 Comments »
Because of our delightfully stringent comments policy, most of the rants about fatties eating everything in a twelve-block radius never make it onto the site. Those “arguments” just aren’t worth thinking about. But we do see some genuine confusion from otherwise reasonable people who can’t see how non-restricted eating could possibly be compatible with health, [...]
Filed under: 101, Fat, Fillyjonk, Food, Health at Every Size | 316 Comments »
Shark-Fu has a great post over at Feministing about a 60 Minutes interview with Alice Waters, “the mother of slow food.” Overall, the interview is quite good, save a little of the expected obesity epidemic blathering, and the following. When Waters is asked about the often exorbitant price of organic food, she responds:
We make decisions [...]
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According to The Guardian, a panel of nutritionists and dietitians have reviewed a bunch of celebrity chefs’ cookbooks and declared them dangerously! full! of! killer! fats!
The report, The Guilty Secret of Celebrity Chefs, published today by The Fat Panel, analysed the saturated fat content of a variety of starters, main courses, side orders and desserts [...]
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So this idea is so dumb that I don’t want to give it too much ink — certainly not as much as the BBC did, christ — but I got a laugh out of this article.
[Dr. David Walker] said chocolate used to be seen as a “treat” but had now become a harmful addiction for [...]
Filed under: Fat, Fillyjonk, Food, Media | 175 Comments »
This article with the oh so clever title of “‘Joy of Cooking’ or ‘Joy of Obesity’?” describes a study that hilariously mischaracterizes the evolution of everybody’s favorite cookbook. Researchers have found that some recipes now have higher calorie counts and that’s why Americans are OMG SO FAT:
Published as a letter Tuesday in the Annals of [...]
Filed under: Fat, Food, Media, Sweet Machine, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 254 Comments »
This time with an officially real person, Emily Blunt. That is, Emily Blunt, Doughnut Smuggler.
On being monitored to make sure she didn’t gain weight while playing a diet-obsessed fashionista in The Devil Wears Prada, she says:
I understand why I was asked to be like that for that role, my character was surviving on cubes of [...]
Filed under: Dieting/WLS, Fat, Food, Pop Culture, Self-Image | 63 Comments »
Andy Wright at Mother Jones nails everything wrong with Mars’s new candy bars for the lady market so perfectly, I can’t even add anything. I can only quote:
Predictably, one of the hot selling points for the Fling bar is that “at under 85 calories per finger, it’s slim, but not skinny. Indulgent but not greedy. Naughty [...]
Filed under: Advertising, Dieting/WLS, Fat, Femininity, Food, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 128 Comments »
All right, y’all, it’s time for another recipes thread. I’m trying to do more cooking, and I’m looking for stuff to try. Bring it on.
Since money’s tight for everyone these days, I’ll ask specifically for recipes with inexpensive, easy-to-find ingredients. Of course, the definition of ”inexpensive” is relative, so let’s just say this is not [...]
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Kate will be on a panel about body image at this year's BlogHer conference on Friday, July 24, at 1:15 p.m.
Stay tuned for a college tour in the fall and maybe some stuff in between.
Notes from the Fatosphere
