A Curious Fancy, On the necessity for real world fat communities. Big Beach Bums, Brighton, 2011 Yesterday’s conversation with Marianne on Twitter got me thinking about the necessity for in person fat meets. Here are some of my thoughts, and an idea. Before I went to Uni at the tender age of 19, I was the fattest person I had ever known. As a teenager, I had ranged in size from a UK 14 to 8, and yet, I was the fattest person I’d ever known. Even at Uni, I was one of the biggest people in my class, but what was amazing there were two of my teachers. They were fat, and they rocked.
I didn’t really meet many other fat people in India. Nefferth and Kirsty at PlusLondon, 2011 PlusLondon (1) was my first experience of a fat blogger meet, and it was seminal. When you have spent all your life being an anomaly, an outlier, a freak of nature, with no one you know that you can relate to, and the fat hating world around trying its best to crush you, it is not just important, but crucial to have meets like this. 10 Potential Strategies For Addressing Size, Weight and Shape Discrimination by Jill Andrew - Fat in the City - Curvy Plus Size Fashion Blog.
Fat in the City’s JILL ANDREW responds to Tuesday’s online Globe & Mail article on Size Discrimination In the Toronto based daily newspaper, Craig and Mark Keilburger tackle Size Discrimination and ask for strategies for change Howdy everyone! I’d like to propose 10 potential strategies (not necessarily in the order presented) for addressing size, weight and shape discrimination. The number 10 just happens to be a lucky number of mine but by no means is this list exhaustive.
Let’s face it strategies are much more complex than a quick fix list and often with lists once it’s done and we check it off we think we’ve conquered it. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Thanks folks for reading some of my strategies ~ only 10 of a collective many! Addressing Miriam Berg’s quote: Hey Miriam! Addressing Karyn Johnson’s quote: Hey Karyn!
Jill Andrew, PhD (c.) is the founder/director of BITE ME! Author’s note: please excuse any typos.
Fitness vs. Fatness on All-cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis. The purpose of this study was to quantify the joint association of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and weight status on mortality from all causes using meta-analytical methodology. Studies were included if they were (1) prospective, (2) objectively measured CRF and body mass index (BMI), and (3) jointly assessed CRF and BMI with all-cause mortality. Ten articles were included in the final analysis. Pooled hazard ratios were assessed for each comparison group (i.e. normal weight-unfit, overweight-unfit and -fit, and obese-unfit and -fit) using a random-effects model. Compared to normal weight-fit individuals, unfit individuals had twice the risk of mortality regardless of BMI. Keywords: Cardiorespiratory fitness, Body mass index, All-cause mortality, Fitness and fatness, Obesity paradox Abbreviations and Acronyms: BMI, body mass index, CRF, cardiorespiratory fitness, PA, physical activity Statement of Conflict of Interest: see page 389.
Fat But Fit? Study Reveals That Fitness, Not Weight, Predicts Risk Of Early Death. When it comes to living a long and healthy life, a meta-analysis of mortality studies finds that being physically active, no matter what your weight, trumps being thin and unfit. Researchers at Middle Tennessee State University, led by exercise scientist Vaughn Barry, Ph.D., examined 10 past studies that recorded information about participants' body mass indexes and fitness levels.
The studies looked at the weight and fitness levels of thousands of participants (the largest one included 21,856 people) and continued to follow up with the participants over several years, ranging from an average of 7.7 years to an average of 16 years. Barry's team crunched the numbers on those past studies by dividing participants into three weight categories based on BMI: normal weight, overweight and obese. Then they put them into two categories based on their performance on an endurance test (in most studies, this involved running on a treadmill): fit and unfit. Barry used his own life as example. Multilevel-Approach-to-Coping-with-Stigmas-Identified. (HealthNewsDigest.com) - UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Socially stigmatized groups have poorer health than non-stigmatized groups, but a team of researchers believes that more emphasis on two-way and multidisciplinary interventions will have a greater and more successful impact on relieving many health issues. "We took an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how to reduce health disparities due to the effects of social stigma, including stigmas based on race, sexual orientation and chronic illness," said Jonathan Cook, assistant professor of psychology, Penn State.
Stigma results when a negative stereotype becomes attached to a particular characteristic in societal consciousness. People with this specific characteristic come to be seen as lower in status than others and therefore separate. Once separate, these groups become a target for discrimination. Stronger interdisciplinary collaboration can help fight against stigma by looking at the issue from multiple angles. 'I'm the Biggest Man on Campus' Photo: Julius Don Bailey in the classroom. (Photographer: Don Reed) Late in the fall semester of 2011, as he guided his students into a discussion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Julius Don Bailey broke down. Bailey, a professor of philosophy at Wittenberg University, stands 5’11” and weighs 361 pounds.
Two weeks prior, he told his students that he’d be taking a brief leave of absence, during which he planned to undergo gastric bypass surgery. He had high hopes that, by helping him shed weight, the procedure would “combine what I’ve got intellectually with more of a social life.” But once his doctors opened him up, they determined that they couldn’t go through with the operation: Bailey had too much scar tissue from two previous surgical procedures.
As he stood before his class, the famous opening lines of Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground stopped him cold: “I am a sick man. When a female student started to cry, he snapped back into focus. Bailey is by no means alone. "Stairs are a problem.
Hating On Fat People Just Makes Them Fatter : Shots - Health News. Hide captionThe roots of obesity are complex and include genetics and other factors beyond individual choice, research shows. iStockphoto.com Don't try to pretend your gibes and judgments of the overweight people in your life are for their own good. Florida researchers have evidence that discriminating against fat people only makes them fatter. "People often rationalize that it's OK to discriminate based on weight because it will motivate the victim to lose pounds," Angelina Sutin, a psychologist at the Florida State College of Medicine in Tallahassee, tells Shots. "But our findings suggest the opposite. " Sutin and a colleague checked survey data from more than 6,000 American men and women age 50 and older who were asked how often in their daily lives they experienced different types of discrimination.
Examples ranged from discourtesy or refusal of restaurant service to not getting a job or promotion. The survey then asked the respondents why they thought the discrimination happened. Peter Attia: What if blaming the obese is blaming the victims? Taking the Fat Out of NAAFA? Taking the Fat Out of NAAFA? By danceswithfat May 21 2013 The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) was founded in 1969, and bills itself as “North America’s oldest civil rights organization working to end size discrimination.” It seems that they are considering a name change. I received a copy of their May newsletter which read as follows: “Life comes with very few guarantees but one of those is that things are going to change. Those of us who have been around for a while have seen tremendous evolution in our world. NAAFA has evolved to its present form in response to the changes in the world. Over the course of its lifetime, NAAFA has undergone name changes in order to better communicate its purpose and goal.
NAAFA’s message is often obscured by the reaction of the public to the name National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. Our mission is EQUALITY AT EVERY SIZE. They’ve asked for thoughts, so here are mine: The NAAFA Constitution states: ShareThis. Colleges fit 'fat studies' into curriculum. Published: Sunday, April 21, 2013, 11:00 p.m. Deborah Christel wants the next generation of college students to think outside the box labeled “plus size.”
The West Virginia University professor will debut a course called “Fat Studies” this summer. The Morgantown campus is in a state where the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified nearly a third of residents as obese and about two-thirds as overweight. “Fat people are discriminated against a lot in our society,” Christel said, pointing to websites devoted to dumping on people who are overweight. Class posters showing body outlines progressing from normal to obese triggered responses that illustrate negative stereotypes, she said. Christel, 28, became aware of biases against overweight people while studying at Oregon State University, one of the first schools in the nation to teach fat studies, and because of her background in active-apparel design. Stereotypes questioned “Slowly, we're changing things,” she said. The Venus of Willendorf Project Goes National. Its time to take this message national right beside the ads that sell the diets.
Here is how you can help! I have already placed ads in several magazines that will appear the first two weeks on May in honor of "No Diet Day"May 6th. Now I need you to turn this grass roots effort into a movement. Graphic Design: Amanda Moyer I’m asking you to contribute to my project by donating money to help me continue to place my ads in more magazines in direct opposition to the diet ads and slim quick schemes. Magazines that pitch recipes for 10 layer chocolate cakes and articles with Dr. I’m offering people a cool, creative way to get rid of their unwanted diet books, liberate themselves from the oppressive hold of unrealistic body ideals, and to contribute in the making of some historic art. The Venus of Willendorf Project I began the Venus of Willendorf Project around 7 years ago, inspired by a diet commercial I saw on TV.
Diet Detour Installation. Here are some SHOCKING numbers You know you do! What's Wrong with Fat? by Dr. Abigail Saguy (UCI, April 17, 2013) Researcher advocates Health at Every Size program | The University of Kansas | The University of Kansas. LAWRENCE — A proposal that health can be attained at any body size by taking a more holistic approach to wellness is gaining popularity, and a University of Kansas professor is studying its professional use to see how effective it is. Sonya Satinsky, assistant professor of health, sport and exercise sciences, is studying the Health at Every Size paradigm by surveying professionals who use the approach in various fields of health.
The paradigm is a model that shifts focus from weight loss as the way to improve health to improved nutrition and physical activity regardless of weight change. She is asking how people such as mental health providers, dietitians, health promotion specialists, nutritionists and even college professors use the principles in their work. “A lot of people who use this paradigm are constantly having to fight for it,” Satinsky said. “Given the amount of weight-based prejudice out there, I think it makes sense to view health this way.”
No evidence weight loss improves health, says nutrition expert (Includes interview) For decades, we have been told and we still see daily on all media sources the connection between diet, weight loss, and health. Generally, weight gain is considered the direct result of diet and weight loss is associated with and suggested for better health. However, a recent article by nutrition professor and researcher Linda Bacon, published in Discover Magazine (December 2012), rejected this usually accepted view. Weight loss does not improve health and can even be dangerous, says Linda Bacon, author of the book Health at Every Size. Let’s learn from her some more about weight, diet, and health. Read more... Ernest: Linda, let’s take it from your article about the counterproductive effect of the generally accepted view on weight and health.
How is this conventional view counterproductive? Our Imaginary Weight Problem. Fitness for Office. Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey recently had a cross-continental shouting match with Connie Mariano, a former White House physician who said that the governor’s weight is “almost like a time bomb waiting to happen,” adding, “I worry about this man dying in office.”
Dr. Mariano’s concern is probably not at the nail-biting, walking-the-floor-at-night level. After all, she lives in Arizona, and there must be tens of thousands of overweight executives in need of attention, scattered all over the landscape between there and New Jersey. The governor’s size also does not appear to be a pressing concern for the majority of his constituents, who currently seem so enamored that they’d vote him back into office if he was too large to get out of the upstairs bedroom without assistance from emergency responders. The governor says he’s very healthy and that “there is a plan” for losing weight. There’s a national accord that thin is generally better than fat. But about Chris Christie. Melissa McCarthy in Identity Thief, reviewed. Photo by Guy D'Alema/Universal Pictures Watching Identity Thief, the new Seth Gordon road comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy, I found myself thinking a lot about the female comic grotesque.
It’s easy, and safe, to space in and out of such abstractions during the viewing of Identity Thief—the story proceeds along well-worn tracks and can be rejoined without confusion at any time, while the chances of missing out on a big laugh are, alas, minimal. On the current American movie landscape, female comedians working in the grotesque vein—most notably McCarthy, along with the suddenly everywhere Rebel Wilson—occupy an uneasy position between feminist trailblazers and preservers of the status quo. On the one hand, the fact that their extra-large bodies lie outside the narrowly prescribed realm of leading-lady desirability—that they belong to no category ending with the letters -ILF—gives them the freedom to explore over-the-top, “unfeminine” behavior with glorious impunity.
Privilege for Absolute Beginners. | Adipose Activist. Authors note: I am writing this blog and trying to be considerate of as many people’s experiences as I can, but all the same, I do have privilege and there is some mention of problems I never have to deal with, such as being trans* or a person of color. If anything I said is offensive or out of line in ANY way, please call me out on it so I can fix it! Sorry about the blog title–a warning, there will be NO David Bowie in this post. Sorry! I want to talk about privilege. If you’ve delved into the social justice scene, especially on tumblr, the word privilege probably makes you cringe. I know, I know. Privilege is absolutely a real thing, and it absolutely does exist. Well, none of those things are true in social justice context.
So what is privilege? The number one thing I think is important to mention is that privilege is NOT a bad word, nor a bad thing to have. Privilege is something most people take for granted. Privilege isn’t absolute. Privilege works on a sliding scale. Like this: Big Fat World. Solid and Substantial, with Big Benefits | Elizabeth Patch's More to Love Blog. Myths of Weight Loss Are Plentiful, Researcher Says. Journal of Eating Disorders | Full text | Health and health-related quality of life among treatment-seeking overweight and obese adults: associations with internalized weight bias. What is Intuitive Eating? | Intuitive Eating. Fatism — Who Do You Judge and Who Do You LOVE? Are We Obsessed with Obesity? 'Fat Genes' Determine Obesity, UCLA Study Says, In Addition To Diet And Exercise.
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HAES® Matters: Dieting, Disease, and Weight (part 2) | Health At Every Size® Blog. Resources - Linda Bacon, PhD. Fat Acceptance. The Guardian on Facebook. Yemapower - chat - erecsmith12.