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, … Continue reading »
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Quick Hit: Shark-Fu on Nutrition and Privilege
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 … Continue reading »
Quick Hit: It’s Almost as if Fat Tastes Good
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 … Continue reading »
I’m a chocoholic, I’m addicted to chocahol
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 … Continue reading »
How many grams of fat in a gallinule?
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 … Continue reading »
I am in love for the second time this week
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 … Continue reading »
WTF of the day: Fling candy bars
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. … Continue reading »
Recipes: Cheap Eats
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 … Continue reading »
No words
Robert Blue was arrested for chaining his 15-year-old daughter to a bed, because he thought she was fat and wanted to stop her from eating. On and off for two days, Blue’s 15-year-old daughter was chained to her bed. She was found beaten and in tears — all because Blue thought she was overweight, according … Continue reading »
Grow up already
I’ve never really watched Project Runway — not from lack of desire but from lack of cable — so I don’t know much about Laura Bennett except that I saw a picture of a pretty dress she designed once. I am going to make a wild guess that, being a fashion designer, she’s not exactly … Continue reading »
