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Back up the Duh Truck: Researchers at the University of Alabama have discovered that if you treat the patient you have, instead of the one you think might be prettier, you end up with better outcomes. In other news, fat asses can’t fit in a size 4 pant, that and 25 cents will no longer [...]
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Dear Oprah,
Please just stop. Please. And I don’t mean that in a nasty way (though some of my commenters will). I mean please, stop doing this to yourself.
I know saying that is pointless, because I’ve been there, and I know it’s hardly a matter of just telling yourself to get over it and accept that this is [...]
Filed under: Dieting/WLS, Fat, Food, Health at Every Size, Media, No Shit Sherlock, Pop Culture, Self-Image | 160 Comments »
Overweight women find health care access and attitudes a constant struggle.
“The participants in our study described the experience of seeking healthcare as a constant battle and struggle and were upset by the reactions of healthcare staff” says lead author Professor Emily Merrill from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
“They told us that they felt even [...]
Filed under: Health at Every Size, No Shit Sherlock | 50 Comments »
Check it out:
Calorie restriction, a diet that is low in calories and high in nutrition, may not be as effective at extending life in people as it is in rodents, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
You don’t say.
Go read the whole article. Some interesting stuff there. I’ve got [...]
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Okay, every Shapeling and their grandma has sent me a version of this news, so I’d better get on it. (Thanks, everybody, and sorry I’m slow!)
A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people — about half — have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, while an equally startling number of trim people [...]
Filed under: Exercise, Fat, Health at Every Size, Media, No Shit Sherlock | 116 Comments »
This should make me happy, I guess:
EAST LANSING, Mich. — New research led by a Michigan State University scholar refutes commonly held stereotypes that overweight workers are lazier, more emotionally unstable and harder to get along with than their “normal weight” colleagues.
With the findings, employers are urged to guard against the use of weight-based stereotypes [...]
Filed under: Fillyjonk, Media, No Shit Sherlock, You've Got to Be Kidding Me | 120 Comments »
I just got this press release yesterday (article abstract here):
Piscataway, N.J. – June 2, 2008 – A major review in Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice reveals that research indicates people who are obese may be more likely to become depressed, and people who are depressed may be more likely to become obese.To understand the potential [...]
Filed under: Fat, Fillyjonk, Health at Every Size, No Shit Sherlock | 109 Comments »
And it brought us a BBC article that drops this staggering bombshell: Obesity may be largely genetic.
MY GOD! COULD IT BE?!? Hang on — I need to go call my fat sisters, fat brother, fat aunts, and fat cousins and ask if they’ve ever heard of such a thing.
The article is shite, but the study [...]
Filed under: Fat, Media, No Shit Sherlock | 43 Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: Fat, Fillyjonk, Health at Every Size, Media, No Shit Sherlock | 38 Comments »
Breaking news, you guys:
For parents concerned about their overweight teens, new research suggests the best tactic might be to just relax and cook a healthy Sunday dinner.
Pushing diets probably won’t help. Neither will teasing about weight. Instead parents should focus on having frequent family meals, creating a positive atmosphere at mealtimes, promoting physical activity and [...]
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Notes from the Fatosphere
