Jamie Oliver’s classism: The Naked Chef is not the right person to teach the poor how to eat well. Bustle. According to mirrors and a bunch of guys on Twitter, I am fat. I am a fat chick that is going to be fat until forever, probably. I also have a lot of thin friends. In fact, I’d probably say that most of my friends are thin. My group of friends tends to be a pretty non-judgmental bunch, but sometimes even the most progressive of them will slip up and accidently say some pretty hurtful shit. Being the only fat girl in the room with a bunch of thin 20-somethings can be interesting. Pin it My fat arm selfie. Whatever your intentions, the following four comments are pretty rude things to say to or in front of your fat friends. 1.
The worst version of this comment is “you’re really pretty for a big girl!” 2. I don’t want to go to Anthropologie with you. 3. And it’s likely that they don’t want to hear it at all. 4. Fat people have to consciously choose to eliminate the fat hatred that they’ve internalized over the years. Image: dearlydeparted on flickr. Critical weight studies. In recent years a field of study that has come to be entitled ‘fat studies’ has developed, largely in response to the discourse around obesity in developed countries.
Just as gays, lesbians, bisexual and transgendered people have chosen to reappropriate the once pejorative word ‘queer’ for their own purposes, attempting to reinstate it as a positive self-identifying and political term, some academics and activists seek to use the word ‘fat’ to describe corpulent people in a positive, accepting manner. In her foreword to The Fat Studies Reader, a ground-breaking collection of radical essays critiquing dominant cultural representations of fatness, well-known fat activist Marilynn Wann (2009: ix) defines fat studies as ‘a radical field, in the sense that it goes to the root of weight-related belief systems’.
The sculpture Bronskvinnorna (The women of bronze) outside of the art museum (Konsthallen), Växjö, Sweden. The sculpture is a work by Marianne Lindberg De Geer. References 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. 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. Fat profits: how the food industry cashed in on obesity. When you walk into a supermarket, what do you see? Walls of highly calorific, intensely processed food, tweaked by chemicals for maximum "mouth feel" and "repeat appeal" (addictiveness). This is what most people in Britain actually eat. Pure science on a plate. The food, in short, that is making the planet fat.
And next to this? Row upon row of low-fat, light, lean, diet, zero, low-carb, low-cal, sugar-free, "healthy" options, marketed to the very people made fat by the previous aisle and now desperate to lose weight. In the UK, 60% of us are overweight, yet the "fat" (and I include myself in this category, with a BMI of 27, slap-bang average for the overweight British male) are not lazy and complacent about our condition, but ashamed and desperate to do something about it. When obesity as a global health issue first came on the radar, the food industry sat up and took notice.
How did this happen? OK, here's scenario two. That was all about to change. Why indeed. But guess what? David Berreby – The obesity era. Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have nothing but excess poundage all over my body. That, as we used to say during my Californian adolescence, was then. And so the authorities tell us, ever more loudly, that we are fat — disgustingly, world-threateningly fat.
Moral panic about the depravity of the heavy has seeped into many aspects of life, confusing even the erudite. Several governments now sponsor jauntily named pro-exercise programmes such as Let’s Move! Hand-in-glove with the authorities that promote self-scrutiny are the businesses that sell it, in the form of weight-loss foods, medicines, services, surgeries and new technologies. Higher levels of female obesity correlated with higher levels of gender inequality in each nation Daily Weekly Explore Aeon Biology. Arched Eyebrow » former unfat person. Here is me when I was 17 Here is me now I am 23. Digging around for the photo of me at my thinnest meant going through my Facebook to find the photos for my leavers’ ball. So much of that is irrelevant now: former friends I can’t stand to be in the same room as, pals with their then-boyfriends who have probably been very long-forgotten, hairstyles that were never revisited.
The one thing that remains oddly relevant is the fact that I wasn’t very fat. People cling onto the ‘former fat person’ tag for dear life. I lost about four stone (25kg) in my last year of secondary school before I went to university for the first time. It was always for them, not for me. Making the effort to lose weight has a massive impact on your social life. It wasn’t fun. Just before you get to the photos from my leavers’ ball, there are a few from a holiday I took the same summer.
When I’d lost weight, I wore a bikini once. To quote David Cronenberg’s film Videodrome: ‘Long live the new flesh’ Big deal: You can be fat and fit. An activist at a National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance rally in New York wears a T-shirt to promote self-image. Marilyn Wann: Study confirms fat is not a death sentence, and overweight people live longerWann denied health coverage because of her size; she became an activist afterwardWann: Fat people continually get misdiagnosed, receive poor health care because of biasWann: Doctors finding new Health At Every Size approach provides better care Editor's note: Marilyn Wann is author of "FAT!
SO? " and a weight diversity speaker internationally. She is the creator of Yay! Scales, which give compliments instead of numbers. (CNN) -- After a careful review of all relevant research worldwide, the U.S. government's leading analyst of weight data just confirmed what I've long known: Being fat might not be a death sentence.
Another recent study found people who were "metabolically healthy" and overweight or obese had no higher death risk than metabolically healthy "normal" weight people. Fat is Not an Emotion. So why do so many of us have days when we “feel fat” regardless of our actual weight and shape? “On days when I feel fat—” Anna Guest Jelley, founder of body-positive company Curvy Yoga, stops herself. “Fat is not an emotion,” she corrects, and moves on with her talk on modifying a yoga practice for curvy bodies. Fat is not an emotion. That phrase has stayed with me since she said it. Literally, it’s true: fat is a vital substance in our bodies that stores energy, keeps us warm, and nourishes our organs when they get stressed out.
One of my teachers, Tomas Hicks, calls it the Superficial Fascial Layer, and he describes it as a testing zone between you and the outside world. It’s the first place you get a sense of whether or not you feel safe in a certain place. So why is it that every woman I’ve ever known, and most of the men I’ve talked to about it, have days where they “feel fat” regardless of their actual weight and shape?
I consider myself a pretty aware person. Shut up and breathe. Fat-Shaming All Around Us. Share The sign outside a cafe in West Village that sparked debate over fat-shaming. (Courtesy of Chloe Angyal.) Earlier this week I blogged here about the thinspiration community—which encourages anorexic and bulimic behaviors and insists that eating disorders are not mental illnesses but admirable “lifestyle choices”—and its use of Twitter to share tips on how to be “better” at your eating disorder.
In that post I posited that, disturbing though it is, the thinspiration community is simply an exaggeration of the culture in which it exists. A grotesque exaggeration, to be sure, but hardly surprising one in a culture where women are expected to be thin at all costs, and in which more mainstream discussions of weight conflate thinness with health, beauty and self-worth. As an example of that larger culture, I pointed to a photo I had taken just that day, of a sign outside a cafe in Manhattan’s West Village.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what fat-shaming looks like. Reading this for free? 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. The survey then asked the respondents why they thought the discrimination happened.
Four years later, a follow-up survey asked the same questions and checked for changes in weight. 3 Dystopian Ways We're Fighting the Obesity Epidemic. Remember when other countries used to point at the U.S. and laugh because Americans are so fat? Well, they're not laughing now: According to a global report, obesity is now a bigger problem than hunger (no pun intended). And while Americans are sitting here trying acai berry enemas and grabbing up whatever metabolism-boosting overalls QVC vomits at us, the rest of the world is tackling the problem in much more proactive ways, like ... #3. Taiwan Has Created a Wi-Fi Tooth to Stop Binge Eating In what has to be the saddest possible way to become a cyborg, researchers over at the National Taiwan University have created a Wi-Fi-enabled chip to jam into people's teeth that detects when they're binge eating and rats them out to their doctor.
National Taiwan University"I see that you were also crying the whole time, Mr. We meant Doctor Octopus, but hell, this works, too. #2. Florence Delva / Workbook Shop / Getty"I got all this from a single dump! " #1. Associated PressSee "short answer," above.