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Links for September and October 2009

2009-11-08T08:20:00.000-07:00

Nightclubs for the plus-size begin to weigh in comcast.net

Surgery for weight loss is far from an easy fix Lily O’Hara via FatLotOfGood.org.au

Diets? Not for these folks Weary of counting calories, some overweight people have a new goal -- to be happy and healthy, not thin. latimes.com

Fat at 40 is better than thin, scientists warn It is better to be fat than thin at age 40, according to a new study which shows that the overweight are likely to live longer than those who are slim. telegraph.co.uk

Fat Lips & Other Smack Talk: The Language of Fat edenfantasys.com

Marilyn Wann Seeking fat acceptance
Size-tolerance activists envision a day 'when fat phobia becomes as intolerable as racism.' latimes.com

VIDEO Mayilyn Wann A brief interview on Fox about the New Jersey governor's race, where a fat guy Republican candidate's opponent is using anti-fat ads foxnews.com

Diets? Not for these folks
Weary of counting calories, some overweight people have a new goal -- to be happy and healthy, not thin. latimes.com

Do extra pounds always equal extra risk?
Researchers say plenty of fat people are healthy, and plenty of thin people are unhealthy. latimes.com

Liz Taylor doing well: Showing again the benefits of extra pounds or even obesity for heart patients examiner.com

Living the Life Gabby Sidibe's astonishing debut in Precious.
nymag.com

BRENDA OELBAUM She’s a woman, she’s a feminist, she’s an artist. And she believes in changes. And truth. byobrain.wordpress.com

VIDEO 'Fat Acceptance': Women Embrace the F-word They make you watch a commercial before the "real" video starts. 85 Pounds Later, Plus-Size Model Crystal Renn Is Happier and Healthier. BONUS Kate Harding is toward the end of the clip. abcnews.go.com

James Fallows Emptying the obesity-and-class mailbag jamesfallows.theatlantic.com

Fat-and-fit movement growing dailycomet.com

The Real Cause of Obesity
It's not gluttony. It's genetics. Why our moralizing misses the point. Jeffrey Friedman. newsweek.com

Victim of the weighting game bounces back featuring the fatospheres Bri King. theage.com.au

Miriam Berg - Letter
Bias Against Heavy People nytimes.com

Punishing obesity compounds the problem -- Connie Schultz cleaveland.com

Plot thickens on the 'healthy obese' debate canada.com

Cleveland Clinic CEO apologizes to staff for ‘hurtful’ comments in obesity debate medcitynews.com

Fat studies emerges as an academic field S.D. professor co-edited a book on the subject. signonsandiego.com

Fat and Fit Photos: Defying Stereotypes About Obesity. Happy, Healthy and Heavy www.newsweek.com

A New Focus on Fat SDSU Women's Studies professor Esther Rothblum is the editor of The Fat Studies Reader. www.voiceofsandiego.org

Professor helps pioneer field of fat studies. McCrossin focuses on fat characters in literature media.www.gwhatchet.com

The Naughty Kitchen with Chef Blythe Beck coming to Oxygen.

Is Weight-Loss Advice Unethical? drsharma.ca

Evidence for a strong genetic influence on childhood adiposity despite the force of the obesogenic environment ajcn.org

PDF Obesity—still highly heritable after all these years ajcn.org

Our Big Fat Intolerant Society Whose Planet Is It Anyway blogspot

A Century Later, She’s Still Red Hot Sophie Tucker, rad fattie. nytimes.com

Clothes The Modern Goddess.biz She also has a yahoo group CurvyChickBoutique

Here is the Marilyn vs. PETA video. The interviewer is an idiot so please note this HUGE TRIGGER WARNING.
Does PETA billboard mock fat? cnn.com

Who Says Americans Are Too Fat?
Overselling the obesity epidemic isn't getting us anywhere. You can be big and healthy at the same time.
newsweek.com

Teen lit alive with positive characters of size google.com

Confessions of a Skinny Fat Person: Welcome to The Fat Wars blog.newsweek.com

Fat in the liver -- not the belly -- is a better marker for disease risk scienceblog.com

Belly fat may be innocent bystander upi.com

FDA Looking Into Liver Problems With Obesity Drug Orlistat attorneyatlaw.com

Low-carb diets damage arteries news.bbc.co.uk

Fat on Film what pop culture tells us about being obese in America. newsweek.com

Links for August 2009

2009-09-01T18:24:00.000-06:00

Linda Bacon's keynote speech delivered at the annual NAAFA convention July 2009. lindabacon.org

Oakland, CA - NAAFA, a civil rights organization dedicated to ending discrimination against people of size is deeply distressed and concerned by the recent decision of the Center of Disease Control (CDC) to launch their web site “Leanworks” featuring an “obesity cost calculator for employers”: http://www.cdc.gov/leanworks/costcalculator/index.html

NAAFA strongly encourages a federally funded agency like the CDC to reconsider a policy and practice that would legitimizes any form of discrimination and to adopt a Health At Every Size (HAES) perspective.

NAAFA asks everyone who is equally concerned by the CDC’s decision to adopt such a discriminatory policy to join with NAAFA by clicking on this link and signing the petition to stamp out size discrimination www.ipetitions.com

NAAFA urges everyone to contact your congressional representatives and ask that they insist the CDC stop promoting a policy that goes against the very concept of diversity, inclusion and wellness for everybody. For more information about NAAFA’s Size Diversity Toolkit geared towards HR professionals/Wellness Managers and about the Yale Weight Bias Report visit NAAFA’s website at www.naafa.org

Charlotte Cooper over at http://obesitytimebomb.blogspot.com/ is posting some NAAFA convention coverage. Check it out!

Thinking Clearly About Obesity modeledbehavior.com

Fat Policy Is Not About Health overcomingbias.com

No, Fat People Won't Pay for Health Care Reform slate.com

Campos Fat Rights / Gay Rights lefarkins.blogspot.com

Campos America's Moral Panic Over Obesity theatlantic.com

We should not care about Regina Benjamin’s weight kevinmd.com

Critcism of Regina Benjamin's Weight Nothing But Sexism medpagetoday.com

Obesity police's shaky science
baltimoresun.com

Big love: Large women celebrate their size insidebayarea.com

Kate Harding on Chicago Tonight Relevance of obesity to health care. wttw.com

Obesity is a poor gauge for detecting high cholesterol levels in children eurekalert.org

Clothing Plus size tights from welovecolors.com

Reminiscing Remember when Roseanne was fat? Those were the days, those were the days... harpyness.com

Links for July 2009

2009-08-01T08:39:00.001-06:00

Tossing Out the Diet and Embracing the Fat nytimes.com

Real Bodies Clothing from Bali
Some larger sizes. The largest size tunic they offer says its 80 inches across, I am not sure if that is bust size or just "across". Lots of beautiful fabric to select from.

BOOK Fat Studies in the UK
is inspired by the first British UK Fat Studies seminar held in York in May 2008. The seminar helped bring together academics, health practitioners, activists and artists to discuss how contemporary UK culture represents, attempts to control and demonises fat, and to share and generate ways of countering these ideas on many fronts. FSUK contains articles, cartoons, personal reflection and reports of activism that offer a variety of ways to understand and respond to mainstream perspectives on fat, as well as stirring and suggestive calls to action in the classroom and in the gym, on the page and on the streets, in the home and in clothes shops.

Fat Studies in the UK is designed to appeal to a wide audience, including practitioners, fat activists, students and academics in the fields of health and medicine, sociology, and media and cultural studies, and anyone who is concerned with the ideas perpetrated in the current 'obesity epidemic' by government, health bodies, and mainstream media.

You can order it from Raw Nerve, Alternative Bookshop Online, Amazon or from any good bookshop on or offline.

ASMBS: Gastric Bypass Linked to Abnormal Glucose Tolerance "The hyperglycemic cohort was characterized by a rapid rise to high sugar levels," said Dr. Roslin. "The fact that most of these patients had normal fasting glucose means we need to be very careful of what we call cure or control of diabetes." medpagetoday.com

Art Botero Sculptures at Time Warner Center nycarthur.com

Art Richard Onyango caacart.com

Art Eva Hannah Gallery Fat Ladies evahannahgallery.com

Art sarah-janeszikora.com

Etsy Art Lady At Large etsy.com

Art Bertane Sculture bertantesculture.it

Art Steffi Greenbaum steffigreenbaum.com

Art Leandro Velasco Pardo galerieattienette.com

'Jumping Gene' Diminishes The Effect Of New Type 2 Diabetes Risk Gene sciencedaily.com

Can't Stop Eating? For Some People, Obesity Is Not a Simple Failure of Self-Control. washingtonpost.com

Why the Obesity Epidemic is NOT about health cnow.org

Fat celebrities a danger to our health? Come off it guardian.co.uk

Blog Highlight Beth Ditto for Evans Launch aka I taught Kate Moss how to do Donut Hands "I showed her how to do donut hands. Kate Moss did donut hands and we flashed the 'nut at each other. Life is good."
obesitytimebomb

Links for June 2009

2009-07-03T11:22:00.002-06:00

Blog Highlight I write letters Melissa McEwan. shakesville

Nonfat News Segway helps disabled man more than wheelchair sfgate

Call for Submissions
Weighty Proposition: Films about Fatness, Bodies and Food

Filmmakers and Video Artists are invited to submit films of any length to be screened as part of “Weighty Proposition: Films about Fatness, Bodies and Food.” What is it about a fat body that is scary, beautiful, bold, invisible, revolutionary, obscene? Why do our bodies become sites for debate, confusion, angst and exaltation? How do we come to our individual and cultural understanding of that universal question: Do you eat to live, or live to eat? We are looking for films that document fat positive movement building, that challenge our conceptions of fatness, that create new paradigms for beauty, that consider relationships between size, race, class and gender, that explore food and consumption, and that (most of all) express something fresh and new about fatness, bodies, and food.

Films will be juried by the film series coordinator, Sara Zia Ebrahimi, and filmmaker Naima Lowe. Films not selected for the screening may be considered for future screenings throughout the year.

Please fill out the submission form and send a DVD to: The Flickering Light Film Series, 409 E Pleasant Street, Philadelphia PA 19119, USA and arrive by August 1, 2009.

Evolutionary Speculation About Tuberculosis and the Metabolic and Inflammatory Processes of Obesity This Commentary explores the possibility that the tuberculosis epidemic during previous centuries generated selective pressures that intensified the metabolic syndrome and the inflammatory processes now associated with obesity. These proinflammatory defenses (with immune systems that are especially robust and more easily triggered) in partnership with the metabolic syndrome (insulin resistance, dyslipidemias, and hypertension),1 may have provided an advantage during the tuberculosis pandemic when food availability was limited and average life span was short. Currently, in developed countries, tuberculosis is relatively uncommon, food is abundant, and life expectancy beyond the reproductive years is substantial; the evolutionarily enhanced immune and metabolic elements now act possibly to intensify the pathological consequences of obesity. jama.ama-assn.org

Chubby people live longest: Japan study yahoo.com

Obesity scientists share prize 'For those people who are beset with the problem of obesity, this is a most important discovery,' Yang Chen-ning, a professor and chairman of the Shaw Prize board, told reporters in Hong Kong. 'We all know that there is a tendency for relatives of obese persons to blame the person for lack of willpower. This discovery already shows that it is not a matter of willpower that is at the root of the problem of obesity, it is in fact a chemical process.' straitstimes.com

IUPUI study downplays link between fast food, fat kids indystar.com

Mother’s Fight Against Junk Food Puts a School on Edge nytimes.com

Discovery Of Association Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea And Weight Gain "OSA is a disorder characterized by decreases or cessation of breathing during sleep. Obesity is a known risk factor for the disorder; however, it is hypothesized that the effects of OSA itself may predispose patients to weight gain." medicalnewstoday.com

On Beth Ditto, "Promoting" Obesity & Fat Shame jezebel.com

Hormone from Fat Cells Could Fight Breast Cancer insciences.org

Blog Highlight Paradoxes — Compel us to think

"The next four posts will share with you four recently published studies in peer-reviewed medical journals that the media ignored. Like countless other studies that the public never hears about, these articles probably didn’t come with press releases because there was nothing to sell you or to promote. In JFS’s objective to help you get a fuller story and to encourage all of us to think critically and for ourselves*, we’ll share these studies. They could be said to be about the obesity paradox, healthy lifestyle paradox and figure flaw-paradox…"

Paradoxes compel us to think — Part Two

Dr. Reubin Andres, M.D., a gerontologist at the National Institute on Aging and a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins, admitted that weight loss can improve blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol in the short term. “The only problem is that when you look at mortality rates,” he said, “they don’t look good. Fat people who are subject to weight loss have a higher mortality rate than those who remain fat.”
junkfoodscience.blogspot.com

If you are in Portland or going to be in Portland check out
fat fancy fashions
an underground plus~size clothing boutique offering some fab fat clothes! They have a
video here about their store. Stay in touch with them on
myspace!

Free Hugs and Acceptance at Portland Saturday Market youtube via http://fatactivistnetwork.ning.com/

Links for May 2009

2009-06-12T16:40:00.002-06:00

Bingeing on Celebrity Weight Battles lots of quotes from the fatosphere. nytimes.com

Youtube Femme Enfant by Velvet d'Amour 2009 From Velvet: This video is one of an upcoming series of videos I am making which aims to celebrate a diverse range of Beautiful people. I'm yawningly bored with the same vision of purported 'beauty' that the modern media currently offers, there are zillions of different types of Beautiful people whom we walk by daily, and yet just one screamingly stringent dictate, of purported 'beauty', that continues to smile down upon us from the billboards, TV screens and magazines.

Possible trigger warning. Anti-Obesity Activist MeMe Roth Compares Eating To Rape jezebel.com

Is everyone who's obese actually unhealthy? Fatties with heads (back of their heads but heads!) included. calgaryherald.com

How 'fat chick' furore made adman think smh.com.au

Discover Your Healthy Weight - NEW DVD! Medical experts explain how dieting ultimately leads to increased weight and health problems.

Women share their stories of self-doubt and unhealthy behaviors, and how they learned to trust and love their unique bodies.Discover how you can improve your quality of life with this informational and inspirational DVD that is changing the lives of women across the country. thebodypositive.org

Food For Thought" Pyramids
You can view a sample of the pyramid by clicking the picture in the links right menu bar.

Fatigued by the relentless over emphasis on healthy eating for the purpose of weight loss, Laura McKibbin developed the “Food for Thought” Pyramid in a burst of creativity fueled by rage and probably a touch of sleep deprivation.

The pyramid’s holistic message and subversive tone resonated with Jon Robison, who has helped refine the pyramid and has included it in his presentations to audiences everywhere. food-for-thought-pyramid.com

The Eye of the Beholder The Jewish Daily forward.com

Striking a Pose for Girth nytimes.com

Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved nytimes.com

The Best Diet Is No Diet: Fat Acceptance Authors Weigh In blog.newsweek.com

A Supreme Court Justice Can be Fat and Fit huffingtonpost.com

John Goodman Tries Beckett nytimes.com

HAES UK Launch! Do come and help us launch HAES UK, at the Herbert Gallery in Coventry, May 9th 2009, 10.30am - 3pm! Come and celebrate health for everyone of all sizes!

If you are fucking offended by the word fuck then don't fucking click this link THE BIG FAT GAY COLLAB!
video youtube.com

7 Ways to Celebrate No Diet Day myfoxmemphis.com

BOOK Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society (Paperback) by Kathy Barron (Author), Anne S. Kaplan (Author), Corinna Makris (Author), Lesleigh J. Owen (Author), Frannie Zellman (Author, Editor.)
amazon.com

May 6 is International No Diet Day

Celebrating INDD (International No Diet Day and
International No Diet Day (INDD) is an annual celebration of body acceptance and diversity.
It is observed on May 6 each year.

Paul Campos Fat Judges Need Not Apply thedailybeast.com

Petition back online until Friday May 8
Just say no to United Airlines policy to charge two seats for fat passengers Sign it now!

If you miss signing a petition or even if you did sign, you can contact United and tell them what you think here:

United Airlines

PO Box 66100

Chicago, IL 60666

Telephone: (877) 228-1327 (toll-free)
or (847) 700-6796

Fax: (877) 406-1059 (toll-free)
or (847) 700-2214
customer.relations@united.com

and on Twitter, United Airlines is @unitedairlines

Kate Harding, Deb Malkin, For Some, Obesity Becoming a Civil Rights Issue foxnews.com

Kate Harding & Marianne Kirby
Kate Harding & Marianne Kirby
Lessons From the Fat-o-Sphere Join them Sunday, May 10 @ 1 p.m. for food & drinks starting at 12:30 p.m. at the Lir Irish Pub, 903 Boylston St., Boston. centerfornewwords.org

Links for April 2009

2009-05-05T18:32:00.001-06:00

Kate Harding The queen of fat bloggers takes no prisoners chicagotribune.com

Kate Harding Obese anti-dieting crusaders lead charge for overweight civil rights nationalpost.com

Kate Harding RPT-FEATURE-Obesity becoming U.S civil rights issue for some reuters.com

Weight-loss not the solution for all obesity: MD reuters.com

Even Modest Exercise Can Reduce Negative Effects Of Belly Fat sciencedaily.com

Fat will be lifesaver if pioneering stem cell therapy can beat MS news.scotsman.com

VIDEO Kate Harding Discusses United's Plan To Charge "Obese" Passengers For A Second Seat
CNN, youtube-petulantrumble

SIGN THE PETITION PROTEST: United Airlines Charges FAT-FEES
Target:
Fat Friends and Allies
Sponsored by:
FatSOChic
Let's speak out against United Airlines' hostile policy stigmatizing and harassing the millions of Americans who do not fit into seats (pregnant ladies, this could be you too). Do not let them shame you into silence!

Marilyn Wann did an hour-long interview on local CBS radio last night. Click on the link for the time period from 9PM to 10PM. The discussion of United Airlines starts just before the 8-minute point in that hour and continues through to the end of the hour. KGO news talk AM 819 kgoradio.com

Marilyn Wann Flap Over "Fat Fliers" with video. CBS News

AAPR Blasts United Airlines Decision to Discriminate Against People
Association for Airline Passenger Rights (AAPR), NAAFA news

United Airlines Discriminates Oakland, CA - NAAFA, a civil rights organization working to end discrimination
against people of size strongly urges United Airlines to reconsider their new
discriminatory policy of charging passengers of size for two seats. NAAFA news release

Why the women of planet earth need more Susan Boyles "If a woman in the media is fat, ugly or old, that becomes her defining characteristic. Margaret Cho was "fat" and that was a good portion of her whole schtick. And now she's super thin. I mean, if America Ferrara (a.k.a. Ugly Betty) is our poster child for "fat" girls, then we're in trouble folks. Even in her craziest outfits, Betty Suarez is still pretty cute." This story also contains a link to a song Susan Boyles recorded for a charity album in 1999. For the people who were worried she can't sing in any other style? Rest your fears, listen.
www.examiner.com and youtube.com

Robert B. Fogel, M.D., Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital Engaged in scientific misconduct
The US Public Health Service found that Respondent engaged in scientific misconduct by falsifying and fabricating baseline data from a study
of sleep apnea in severely obese patients published in the following paper: Fogel, R.B., Malhotra, A., Dalagiorgou, G.,
Robinson, M.K., Jakab, M., Kikinis, R., Pittman, S.D., and White, D.P. ``Anatomic and physiologic predictors of apnea
severity in morbidly obese subjects.'' Sleep 2:150155, 2003 (hereafter referred to as the ``Sleep paper''); and in a preliminary abstract reporting on this work.
Specifically, PHS found that for the data reported in the Sleep paper, the Respondent:
Changed/falsified roughly half of the physiologic data Fabricated roughly 20% of the anatomic data that were supposedly obtained from Computed Tomography (CT) images Changed/falsified 50 to 80 percent of the other anatomic data
Changed/falsified roughly 40 to 50 percent of the sleep data so that those data would better conform to his hypothesis.
Respondent also published some of the falsified and fabricated data in an abstract in Sleep 24, Abstract Supplement
A7, 2001.

Goodbye, scale. Hello, health. A grassroots movement helps women gain health and self-esteem by losing their obsession with weight. apa.org

FAT is a new exhibit from local artist Lisa Marie Barren
Art Building - University of New Mexico,Albuquerque
New Mexico Free Admission.FAT consists of projected moving images of subjects’ body fat manipulated to create ambiguous forms. The exhibition is on view in the John Sommers Gallery, from April 3 through April 10, 2009. The opening reception for FAT will be held on April 3, 2009, from 6 – 9 pm, at the John Sommers Gallery located in the Art Building at the University of New Mexico main campus.
Barren is interested in exposing what she feels society thinks should be eliminated or hidden in everyday life, such as one’s own body fat.

BOOK Lisa Marie Barren also has a book coming out to complement the exhibit above. You can view the first 15 pages here

Links for March 2009

2009-04-18T13:09:00.002-06:00

AUDIO Thinness and Salvation by Sarah Yahm. thirdcostfestival.org. The talented Sarah Yahm, who did a radio documentary for her master's degree in social documentation at UC Santa Cruz. Her piece got picked up on a website that's a big deal in radio land.

No Shortage of Diet Books By Brenda Oelbaum imow.org

Elizabeth Fisher is my fucking hero! I have been hoping to hear good news about the Travel Scoot from fat folks and she has not only purchased one and let us know of her travels but set up a blog at mytravelscoot so we can follow her and her travel scoot adventures!. Fat folks who have problems walking long distances (me included) keep an eye on the travel scoot so far it looks like a dream come true. Also check out her Women Of Size Class Members Try out the Travel Scoot page.

Association For Size Diversity And Health has a new website. They are also offering a $20 membership for new members for the next couple months. If you are practicing HAES consider joining.

Knee socks that fit really large calves cascadeshop.com My calves are 21 - 22 inches and these socks fit. The socks also have no seams and are very comfortable.

Difference in fat storage may explain lower rate of liver disease in African-Americans eurekalert.org

FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results consumerists.com

Punishing us for that packet of Maltesers spiked-online

Hydroxycut hepatotoxicity: A case series and review of liver toxicity from herbal weight loss supplements

Invasion of the Chubsters An evening of fat queer films presented by boss bitch of the Chubsters, The Beefer aka Charlotte Cooper, author and activist. Ticket Information http://www.chubstergang.com/

AED Guildings for Childhoold Obesity Prevention Programs Sigrún Daníelsdóttir, Cand.Psych., Deb Burgard, Ph.D., & Wendy Oliver-Pyatt, M.D. Academy For Eating Disorders

Help NAAFA change Nevada laws on weight discrimination
VIA BigFatBlog

PDF Gil Hedley PHD How I Fell in Love
with Fat Ignore the cover of this document featuring Dr Oz and scroll through it to read an article by Gil Hedley. The pdf is modified to only contain the cover and Gil's article.

PDF Researchers find food-free route to obesity Science Daily

Size Net UK for obesity, size acceptance and more

Elizabeth Fisher is my fucking hero!

2009-03-30T17:42:00.002-06:00

Elizabeth Fisher is my fucking hero! Yes I will say it again!

I normally do not make posts for individual links but in this case I am so excited I didn't want anyone to miss the info.

I have been hoping to hear good news about the Travel Scoot from fat folks and she has not only purchased one and let us know of her travels but set up a blog at mytravelscoot so we can follow her and her travel scoot adventures!. Fat folks who have problems walking long distances (me included) keep an eye on the travel scoot so far it looks like a dream come true.

Also check out her Women Of Size Class Members Try out the Travel Scoot page.

Elizabeth is also working with the creator of the Travel Scoot to make it more accommodating for fat folks.

yeah!

Links for Jan and Feb 2009

2009-03-14T12:51:00.001-06:00

February

Study Shows Benefits Of Hormone Found In Fat Tissue science daily

ADVICE: Four Fat Myths about Obesity and Cancer opposingviews.com

Sewing Connie Crawford Butterick patterns XS to 6X. Size 6X measurements: 42-44W Bust:66-68 Waist:66-68 Hip: 74-76 Bicep: 24

Aluminum Big Wide Recliner Supports up to 300 lbs. 25"W from inside arm to inside arm.

The Beast One of the largest recliners in the industry, this Beast recliner features extra support, extra durability and extra comfort. When reclined, it extends to a lengthy 83" and is tested to withstand over 400 pounds of everyday use.

Matching Your Body Type To Your Office Chair informative guide to chair buying for fat people.

Forbidden to be fat FatLand, a new novel that wraps its story around a fictitious U.S. territory of the same name, calls attention not only to the bias that is sometimes placed upon overweight people, but to the ways in which a utopia for such people would be impossible.
North Bergen author Frannie Zellman’s first published novel deals with the complexities of society and how her characters – of various sizes – deal with them. hudsonreporter.com

Beth Ditto on the cover of LOVE from the dailymail.co.uk

JPG Full Size Cover Beth Ditto on the cover of LOVE magazine.

January 2009

Separating fat from fiction on true extent of our 'obesity crisis' Independent.ie

From the front page of Salon today

Does my butt look fat?
Well, it is. And it's OK to say it, because after decades of agonizing over my weight, I've finally realized that the F-word isn't dirty. By Kate Harding

Weight Bias The Need for Public Policy WeightBiasPolicyRuddReport.pdf yaleruddcenter.org

Problems Tied to Obesity Also Seem to Affect Sleep Studies find three separate links with sleep apnea health usnews.com

Nighttime Breathing Disorder Effects Are Independent of Obesity medpage today

Acceptance no matter the size The Lantern

Nutritionist's advice: Stop dieting newsday.com FRANCIE M. BERG

Blog Highlight Obesity problems--true and faux Feed Me! Harriet Brown

Rising childhood obesity a myth: study abc.new.au Save your sanity and avoid reading the comments.

PDF Size Doesn't Matter Samme Chittum.
A note from the author: Please take a look and consider writing a letter to the editor in response to this empowering story so that the dialogue continues.
Pass it around and encourage others to do the same.
Send the letters to jackie.krentzman AT comcast.net.
This file downloads from my box.net account. If you experience problems let me know and I can email it to you or post it in another location.

The health benefits of a well-developed derriere may be good news to ears of many women DailyMail

Blog Highlight: dying from a surgery which might not work anyway suethsayings

Overweight women have lower risk of premature birth. Yahoo News

Obesity has minimal impact on ovarian cancer survival News Medical Net

Links for Nov. and Dec. 2008

2009-01-01T19:38:00.002-07:00

December 2008

Clothing One Stop Plus some good bra shopping here with large sizes. Clothing too.

Boots Wide Widths.com Your site for fashionable wide-calf boots.

HAES HAES Community Registry Health At Every Size. Linda Bacon would like to encourage you to enter the information you have on HAES-positive people and resources into the HAES Community Registry.

Books The Fat Man at the End of the World The fat heroes are coming! (And it's about time, too!) At the festival of the End of the World, a teenager searches for meaning in a flying slum. In the city, a young detective investigates an impossible crime. And there’s trouble brewing at ‘fat camp’, a classy weight-loss retreat for the rich and famous... Writers. Rockstars. Cops. Eight stories from new and established writers take on the stereotypes and give them a fat-positive spin. Print: $8.49,Download: $1.00

November 2008

Books The 'Fat' Female Body (Hardcover) Samantha Murray. Exploring the rapidly increasing interest in obesity and fatness, this book engages with dominant ideas about "fatness" and analyses the assumptions that inform anti-fat attitudes in the West, looking at the intersection of medicine and morality in pathologizing "fat" bodies.
Also available at Macmillian

Books Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby is available for pre-order at Amazon

Books Fatland by Frannie Zellman (fatthought) is available at Amazon

youtube SecretTrois dancing to Single Ladies. Check out their other dancing videos, they rock

Fat Activist Network The Network for People Fighting for Fat Rights.

Obese have right to 2 airline seats --Canada court reuters

CAMPOS: Fight food fascists' effrontery Paul Campos Rocky Mountain News

Health at Every Size has a new community resource site. Check it out!

TM11: Fat Activism goes BIG
By bridging performance and academia these Bay Area activists are bringing attention to fat bodies and then asking, so? But their serious ambitions aren’t without a certain flare for fun and fashion.

Kelly Cochran, a young college activist, rewrites her beliefs about what it means to be a fat dancer by joining the PHAT FLY GIRLS. Long-standing activist, Marilyn Wann, takes to the streets with her handmade YAY SCALES that beg the question, aren’t we all a little bit fabulous? Sondra Solovay takes a more scholarly approach as a lawyer/teacher/writer behind the forthcoming FAT STUDIES READER. The Reader promises to bring the world of fat activism and fat academia together through a varied collection of writings. The assumption is that fat is a civil rights issue and an area of study no different from race, gender and queer studies.

www.bigmoves.org
www.fatso.com

Fat So Funny mooreroom moore toons

Weight fixation sends unhealthy messages Massey University

Obesity a research journal Volume 16, Issue S2 November 2008.
Just came out with a special supplement which presents a series of articles examining the nature and extent of weight bias, as well as its negative impact on obese adults and youth. (Free PDF and full text articles.)

Eastern Serenity Yoga Fanatics Fat yoga statues.

Links for September and October 2008

2008-11-02T11:29:00.001-07:00

October 2008

Love Your Body Day Now Foundation Oct 15, 2008

Tri Delta- Fat Talk Free Week Oct 12 to Oct 17 Delta Delta Delta and key partners are raising the nation's consciousness about the dangers of fat talk and the impact it has on women's self-esteem and confidence. youtube.com

Reflections Body Image Program bodyimageprogram.org

Sammy Sumo wins silver at world
goldcoast.com.au

WWWW Womens snow boots Frost Walker Propet® and Prague Propet cowardshoe.com

Losing the Weight Stigma NY Times

Research casts doubt on obesity epidemic ABC News

Sept 2008

Being fat beat flesh-eating disease heraldsun.com.au

Marilyn Wann To Appear at Abundia Retreat for Plus-Size Women MarketWatch.com

Health At Every Size The surprising Truth about your weight By Linda Bacon PhD is now available for purchase!

Japanese Employers Face Fines for Employing Fat People BBWCupid.com. With linkage to Marilyn Wann's 1000 fat cranes project

The Obesity Panic Industrial Complex on the march in .... Alabama? SignOnSanDiego.com

fat & happy (what is wrong with wellness programs) 8 hours & a lunch

Vogue Photographer Digs Britney, Fat Chicks radaronline.com

NAAFA’s Response to Alabama NAAFA on myspace

1,000 Fat Cranes Project Marilyn Wann. 1,000 Fat Cranes is a response to the Japanese government's decision to measure everyone's waist.

1,000 Fat Cranes asks the Japanese government: Please end the war on waistlines...please make peace with people of all sizes.

Positively Fat Marilyn Wann on radio netherlands

Pollution can make you fat, study claims Independent.co.uk

Links for July and Aug 2008

2008-09-06T10:45:00.002-06:00

Aug 2008

Study: Overweight doesn't always mean heart risks CNN

Dominic Lawson: Don't believe obesity figures – they're spun for a purpose Independent.co.uk

You don't have to be thin to be healthy
What Andrew Lansley doesn't seem to realise is that fatness is a physical characteristic, not a disease
Marianne Kirby (The Rotund). guardian.co.uk

Fat-is-beautiful activist Marilyn Wann protests Japan's thinness law Marilyn Wann. sfweekly.com

Consumer Group Claims CDC Overstates Obesity Costs usgovinfo.com

Substantia Jones's response to the article below (Better to be fat and fit than skinny and unfit). The New York Times (PDF)

Better to be fat and fit than skinny and unfit The New York Times (PDF)

Distorted body images Paul Campos. Rocky Mountain News

The miracle weight loss that isn’t
Risks of gastric-bypass surgery are often underplayed, some experts say MSNBC

The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease Peter Muennig. BMC Public Health

Overweight workers as effective as thin ones, researchers find Jewish World View

Half of overweight adults may be heart-healthy Yahoo News

Fat advocates say Ohio anti-obesity ads demean children The Columbus Dispatch

Anti Childhood Obesity Billboards Kick Up Debate WCPO ABC Channel 9

For Health, Body Size Can Be Misleading The New York Times

Rethinking Diets, Weight Loss and Health The New York Times

Obesity Study Looks Thin The Wall Street Journal

Flawed Logic in Obesity Forecast The New York Times

Half of overweight adults may be heart-healthy SFGate.

Obesity seen protective in cases of heart failure Reuters

All About Eve West End Word

July 2008

The Real Drug War Paul Campos. Lawyers, Guns And Money.

Debunking Obese Stereotypes PsychCentral

Dieting Makes You Fat Geoffrey Cannon explains in his book Dieting Makes You Fat. Alternet

Studies refute common stereotypes about obese workers EurekAlert via Amptoons blog filed under fat fat and more fat

Fat-EThe new Pixar movie goes out of its way to equate obesity with environmental collapse. Slate

Exerpts: Paul Campos on Obesity There are video clips too but the sound is bad because of wind and sprinklers. The Atlantic.

Film takes fat pride to the wall smh.com.au

VIDEO Sumo Car Wash commercial for the subaru forester. youtube

WALL-E's 'fattist' satire angers fat pride groups Telegraph.co.uk

Big Is In - Ad Campaign Magimix XL. designboom

FemmeCast! The Queer Fat Femme Podcast Guide to Life is an audio newsmagazine for Queer Fat Femmes, Fatshionistas of all sexualities and Queers of all genders

Episode 1: The Queer Fat Femme In the first episode of FemmeCast: women explain their fat femme identity, Tara on spring fatshion, Kelli Dunham is not a girly-girl, Rachael on sex and Craigslist, Naima on sexy sci-fi, a featured interview with fat activist Marily Wann, and much much more!

I wonder how this will turn out.. Will HBO prove that Fat Sells? TV Squad

Is Fat the New Black? Leave some comments.
Opinion L.A Los Angeles Times

Should doctors lecture patients about their weight? Get over there and leave your comments!

Well - Tara Parker-Pope The New York Times.

Diets? Don't bother TimesOnline

Book Review Vaught, Susan. 2008. Big Fat Manifesto. Reviewed by ya romance challange

As Mama Used to Say, Don't Laugh at Fat People Wynfred Russel. Mshale The African Community Newspaper

Obesity may offer some protection after stenting Reuters.

Links for May and June 2008

2008-07-03T17:08:00.001-06:00

June 2008

The Fat Experience Project Humanizing the life lived large.

VIDEO Fat Rant 3 Joy Nash. Youtube.
Joy rocks it again.

VIDEO Fat Femme Mafia in Trinity Bellwoods Park Random Videos from a Queer in Toronto. Blip.tv

Expertise versus opinions, in obesity and global warming Paul Campos. ScrippsNews

Erin Remick - Fat Dinosty YouTube via Joy Nash

Eating Habits Not Sole Cause of Thinness or Obesity Washington Post

Obesity helps mice fend off malaria New Scientist

Thinness vs. obesity not directly linked to eating habits, study suggests e! Science News

Even a thin person can get diabetes
Mens Health MSNBC

May 2008

Govt inflating childhood obesity figures: Nelson ABC news AU

Series on 'obesity' full of big, fat lies Paul Campos. Deseret News

CAMPOS: A $10,000 'obesity' challenge Rocky Mountain News

BLOG HIGHLIGHT Hey, Fatties: Thanks for Screwing Everything Up for the Rest of Us guest blogger Erica Barnett at Shakesville

Sugar intake not associated with obesity - survey stuff.co.nz

Obesity Experts Aghast By Wii Fit Wired

Scientists find something good about a big bottom Yahoo News

BLOG HIGHLIGHT How it works - Kate Harding. Shapely Prose

Obese people have an advantage when it comes to surviving illness Canada.com Global National

International No Diet Day Is May 6 Largesse

No Diet Day Vue Weekly

Physical Activity, Healthy Eating And BMI Not Linked In Older Teens Science Daily

Links for April 2008

2008-04-30T18:47:00.003-06:00

Blog Highlight Love letter to a fat man men_in_full

AUDIO 13:06 Fat Rights: The Next Civil Rights Frontier?Guests Anna Kirkland, Marilyn Wann, Byron Rushing. The Kojo Nnamdi show WAMU 88.5 FM

A sister in FAT in the news. complete with video Click On Detroit

VIDEO Woman with a million dollar image Reuters

Body Mass Index and Poststroke Mortality Poststroke mortality is inversely related to BMI: overweight and obese stroke patients have a lower poststroke mortality rate than normal-weight and underweight patients. Karger.com

Study: Teasing adds to weight problems USA Today

New research finds obesity result of genetics, not diet 680 News

Big Sue set to fetch big bucks and top record The Age

Free plus sized knitting patterns via DaniFae.

Anne Griephenburg, Deb Malkin and Glenn Marla at the Brooklyn Flea. Just let the story play they are the last section. NY Times (LINK NOW FIXED)

Increasing Obesity Requires New Ambulance Equipment The New York Times. There have always been fat people who needed this equipment. What ever they want to "blame" it on I am glad they are getting equipment to handle large people.

LIPIDLEGGIN (c) 1978 F. Paul Wilson.

The Brian Lehrer Show has an interview with Anna Kirkland and Lara Frater. Look for Weighty Issues and click the listen to the whole show, then scroll down the menu that opens to Weighty Issues. WNYC.com

Successful plus size model Velvet D'Amour gives her thoughts on the modeling industry GM.TV via Unapologetically Fat

Research debunks health value of guzzling water Reuters. Well there you have it all you fucking "all you need to do is drink a gallon of water a day to lose weight and live forever" people.

Researchers find six more diabetes genes: study Reuters.

Seven hours of sleep will stop weight gain, say researchers Reuters. But you know us fatties will fuck it up like we do "everything else" and sleep too much or too little.. thats why we are teh fatz.

Sprawling neighborhoods not linked to obesity, study finds Reuters. (um double duh on this "new" finding.)

Overweight Kids Have Fewer Cavities New York Times. Just an eye roll warning, most of the posters in the comment section of this article are idiots. Sandy at JFS unravels the "confusion" these researchers seem to have.

Ariane Lopez-Huici’s exhibition ArtCritial.com. The same article is here at gaycitynews but with a different photo featured. GayCityNews.com. And there is a different article here at nyss.org

Could Changing The Bacteria In Your Digestive System Be An Obesity Treatment? Science Daily

Jeanne Toombs has passed NAAFA. She will be sadly missed and joyfully remembered.

The family of Jeanne Toombs has asked that contributions be made to NAAFA in lieu of sending flowers. These donations will help to continue Jeanne's fight to end discrimination against people of size. All checks should be made to NAAFA and earmarked with the
name of Jeanne Toombs. Checks or money orders should be mailed to:
NAAFA, P.O. Box 22510, Oakland, CA USA 94609.

Best Thing Ever via Shapely Prose Youtube

The media is so fucking stupid

2008-04-10T07:21:00.003-06:00

As an example of just how fucking stupid the media is and how far they will go with their "obesity hysteria". I saw this "story" on several major outlets about "Growth spurts may cause obesity".

If you check the one I've linked to at the BBC near the end it says "The study conducted by researchers in the University of Glasgow's Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences and Veterinary School was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council. " (emphasis mine)

The research was not on HUMANS at all, it was on zebra finches. Thats right ZEBRA FINCHES.
Sandy over at JFS has the lowdown.

Links March 2008

2008-03-31T20:23:00.001-06:00

Daniel Engber: Shut up about the cost of obesity The Dallas Morning News

Analyzing effect of obesity on ICU patients UB University at Buffalo Reporter

HAES(Health at every size)Myths and Realities PDF - Deb Burgard

Do you know how your genetic information could be used? You may be surprised! Blog Highlight JunkFoodScience

Promoting Government (And Vanity) As Obesity Solution consumerfreedom.com

BLUR Focused on sizes 12-32 Clothing

Genetics and Obesity Posted by dlende at Neuroanthropology Check out Fatfu's kick ass response in the comments.

PRAIRIE VOICES: Fit and fat GrandForksHerald.com

First ever size 16 girl reaches Miss England final Daily mail
Skinny folk can't rest easy theage.com.au

Fat and happy San Diego City Beat

Obesity Study Sheds Light On How Genetics Affect Risk And Onset Of Common Diseases Science Daily

Some Experts Doubt Obesity Epidemic AOL News. Part of the article sucks, but at there is enough "good" in it to post it.

Genes May Determine Obesity After Weight Surgery Researchers study factors in success of bariatric procedure US News World Report

Sketch: fat Samurai

Obesity Associated With Clear Changes In Gene-networks And Dysfunction Of Mitochondria Science Daily

Spotlight: A lens into multimedia Filmmaker develops new literacies for students. Sniplet: Looking through Julie Wyman’s lens, you wonder how Olympic medalist Cheryl Haworth, at 5-foot-9 and 300 pounds, is one of the world’s premier athletes.

And then you realize that the weight is to her advantage.

Hold it. Fat is unhealthy. Fat is supposed to be bad. How can this be?

Wyman is hoping for just that reaction when people see her new documentary sometime next year. As an artist devoted to new insights into the human condition, Wyman is using video to change how people think about body weight and health.

New Book Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood (Paperback)
by Anna Kirkland (Author). Description from Anna: It’s called Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, and it explores the pre-existing terrain in the law for developing fat rights claims, both critically and hopefully. It’s an academic book but I’ve been told it’s clearly written (I tried very hard, anyway) and it explicitly addresses questions that I mean to be helpful, like how to make the best arguments for fat rights given the languages law supplies.

The Obesity Police Are Coming Thomas A Bowden
Policing Johnnys Diet psychology today

Blog Highlight fillyjonk on Imaginary bodies

Don't be skinny!

2008-03-26T21:08:00.003-06:00

This ad is from a 1969 Movie TV Pin-Ups magazine. It's dated Nov and cost 35 cents.
I have been meaning to post this for a long time. Click here for a full sized pdf version.

Enjoy

Hospital today

2008-03-09T07:27:00.006-06:00

Hey peeps. I have been having problems with my eyes for a couple of weeks now and today I have to go back to the ER and they are more than likely going to admit me so they can give me intravenous drugs.

It seems I have cellulitis in my fucking face! Please think good thoughts for me today.

My face this morning.... puffy

-----update-----

I am back from the ER and the doc said I don't have to stay at the hospital today! yeah! He said it looked like the pills were starting to work so I am free until Tuesday. I have to go back then for a recheck. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.

-----update 3/15/2008----------

I am pleased to announce that after 3 ER trips and 5 visits to a doctor, 3 different antibiotics, larger and larger amounts of steroids, 2 tubes of triple antibiotic ointment and various antihistamines I am nearly better! All the swelling is gone from my face and it just looks like I have a wicked sunburn now. Yea!

-----update 3/27/2008---------------------------
Well ok so I am still not all healed and now I have an appointment with an allergist.
I am back on the prednisone and did some more antibiotics.
Here for your viewing pleasure is my gallery of eye
Eye gallery ew
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Links February 2008

2008-02-29T18:59:00.004-07:00

February 2008

Can Bacteria Make You Fat?

Identification and Replication of a Novel Obesity Locus on Chromosome 1q24 in Isolated Populations of Cilento

Adult-onset obesity seen in mice when gene ubiquitin disrupted

Campos: The weight of a cruel culture

Adult-Onset Obesity Seen In Mice When Gene Disrupted

Mind Over Matter: SH2B1 In The Brain Regulates Obesity

Look at all causes of childhood obesity, APH dietitian says

Debate about fatness increases health risks Kathy J. Kater,
Psychotherapist, Specialist in Promotion of Body Image, Eating, Fitness and Weight
When it comes to prevention: First Do No Harm via Sandy Szwarc at junkfood science

fatfacts wiki Fat Facts -- a resource for academics on fat acceptance. Currently under construction. This will be an excellent resource

Obesity Discrimination from whptv Marilyn Wann and there is a video too.

Fat rebel to speak at York College Marilyn Wann is working to make height and weight discrimination illegal.

Beth Ditto at the Brit Awards Video Clip. And here is Beth on the red carpet at the Brit Awards. And last but not least is this youtube clip of Mika at the Brit Awards and Beth joins in for part of his act.

I smell a rat

Fatosphere in the RedEye

Kimberly Brittingham on Today - Fat is contagious book cover

Fuck that. Good with cheese.

The Full Body Project Gets the Colbert bump.

"Fat Pig" to challenge audiences' thoughts on beauty

"Cold climate genes" blamed for obesity I"m from Antarctica, yeah...thats the ticket.

Abolish the Fat Tax!It's time to shut up about "the cost of obesity".

Previous research has indicated a link between stress and health, and between discrimination and stress.
A research team from Baldwin-Wallace College is interested in extending this research by looking at the potential link between discrimination based upon one´s weight and health. Want to take their survey? Click here.

Helping without harming. Kids, Eating, Weight and Health

The assumption that as children are
getting fatter they are becoming
unhealthier is also not supported by
the latest research from England that
concluded there was "no rise in the
number of children suffering from
longstanding illnesses, which include
type II diabetes."

Nature tops nurture in childhood obesity: study

Obesity may be largely genetic um.. DUH!

How we´ve come to believe that overeating causes obesity

NAAFA News Release - Stop the Discrimination in Mississippi!

The Coalition of Fat Rights Activists (COFRA) press release
Activists decry Mississippi Fat Discrimination bill

Youtube This video by HIFY staff Tina Mahle will expand your mind about fat, body image and self esteem. We think you will soon agree that...Tina rules!

Fat people cheaper to treat, study says
Calling for a cease-fire

Head to Head
PDF Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes
Online Is the obesity epidemic exaggerated? Yes

Feeling fat may be worse for you than being fat

In case you live under a rock and have missed it, Rachel and Mo were on The Morning Show. Here are the YouTube videos:

Part 1
Part 2
Green Room Discussion

Links January 2008

2008-02-01T11:37:00.000-07:00

Lucinda Breeding: Fat and Happy online?

Let´s call a ceasefire in the ´war on obesity´

Weighty Assumptions

Rachel and Mo Totally rock on The Morning Show

Fun Videos On the whole has sumo wrestlers vs soccer players for pepsi
Then a A celebration of curves has a Dove video on the beauty industry, which would be a better video if it wasnt made by a company in the beauty industry.. but you get the point.
And last but not least Creamy nougat lair has a Mac airbook parody

Video clip Size-acceptance movement embraces all shapes, sizes

Miss Conducts Blog - Fat Blogs

In the Fatosphere, Big Is in, or at Least Accepted

Making it big adds a new larger size L to their clothing line.

Witt student to be featured on MTV show She has become a fat activist and created the Body Beautiful Project that promotes size acceptance.

Pure Weight Loss aka L.A. Weight Loss Goes belly up! Now if the rest would just follow! Check out Unapologetically Fat and Junkfood Science for more info

Love your fat self

Mini Activism Op! Visit Red No.3 and read his new post. Pay close attention to the last paragraph that looks something like this: "You want to know a fun fact? Did you know that their site has a poll about whether you think "obesity" is a a problem in the U.S? Did you know that one option is "No, not at all". Wonder what it would be like if a bunch of fatties kept voting that." - Red No.3

Yea I wonder what their poll would look like if EVERYONE went and voted for "No, not at all" :)

Etsy Fat Daddy Bakeshop cupcakes in a jar - does it get any better than that?

Clinical Trials A service of the US National Institutes of Health

This link is translated from german to english using google in a perhaps not so perfect way, but understandable Velvet d´Amour

Exceptionally Fat - The lottery

Health At Every Size

Broadarts Theatre - Fat And Sassy

Barbara Altman Bruno, Ph.D.´s
letter to the editor of the American Journal of Psychiatry has been published in the January 2008 issue in response to the May 2007 AJP editorial by Volkow & O´Brien proposing that "obesity" be included as a "brain disorder" in DSM-IV.

Unapologetically Fat - Action and Inspiration

The Body Positive

Size Queen Clothing - When large just is not big enough

Fashion Patterns By Connie Xtra Small to 42-44W 6X

Plus Woman sizes 1 to 10X

Decent Exposures - Natural Cotton Clothing

Brenda Oelbaum's Photos – Diet Deity Photoshoot Highlights

Ebay Seller - Bidet washlets-convert reg. toilet to a bidet. I have and love this product

New Links for December 2007

2007-12-31T21:11:00.000-07:00

David Addison Small - Grounded Angels
Big Adventures Scuba Tips for plus size women and their allies
Babble- Repeat after me...
Youtube Beth Ditto - Gossip - fashion rocks 2007
Shame on US
CAMPOS: Yet another excuse
Red No. 3 - The only good fat person
Stop the presses! Bariatric surgeons admit obesity does not increase risk of dying or risks for heart disease
When fatness becomes madness
Fat Girl Magazine
Joy Nash - Fruit and Fly
Dont fall for the big fat lie when proof of the padding is thin
Hugo Schwyzer - Fat Is not a moral Crisis.
Raks Africa Fat Belly Dancers
NAAFA recommended reading list
PODCAST Dan Carlin on the not so real obesity epidemic.
The fat content is near the end to skip forward to it:

Finding the Fit in Fat New Study Shows It´s Fitness, Not Fat, That Matters Most
Why being fat doesnt matter if youre fit
Full on with Lenard Nimoy, an interview by Marilyn Wann
Exercise Alone Reduces Insulin Resistance in Obese Children Independently of Changes in Body Composition

New Links November 2007

2007-11-30T19:08:00.000-07:00

The SPIN Interview: Beth Ditto

Campos - Dont feed the Humans

Check it out, Joy Nash has her own IMDB page.

From the lovely Velvet D´Amour,
Obesity series part IV: size acceptance in France:
Transcript with pictures, Or listen here.

170kg man wins court battle with airline

Podcast from the BBC The truth about obesity. Even though it its "so so" I will let it slide because of all the good things it says and the doubt that it casts.

The Dangers of Competitive Dieting

Get To Know Beth Ditto She is on the cover of Bust magazine... right.. now.

Babble a body acceptance blog has assembled a NICE list of fat acceptance blogs that you can subscribe to.

Fat Chances is overweight the new healthy?

Curvy mothers have brainier kids

Weighing in Local bloggers look forward to a future of fat acceptance. (yeah Paul!)

Fat studies Fat studies is an important area of academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. The fat studies group is a discussion forum for people engaged in academic work on this topic and for people who seek to create social change around weight oppression. This is not a forum for promotion of the goal of weight loss.

Florence Studio Wonderful World - Beautifully Big

Les Toil - Big Beautiful Pin-Up Girls

U.S. Life Expectancy Hits New High of Nearly 78 Years

2007-11-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

November 28, 2007
From the CDC : U.S. Life Expectancy Hits New High of Nearly 78 Years
So how is all that "OMG teh fatties are gonna drop dead any second!!!" workin' out for ya?

New Links October 2007

2007-10-12T10:50:00.000-06:00

Big Girl, Big Stuff Tours

Women´s Bodies (MP3) by Eve Decker, Rebecca Riots,
a band from Berkeley has a song called Womens Bodies. You can listen it here.

Nightclub opens with plus-sized crowd in mind

Club Plus Life In Reno

Linda´s Big Connections is the Midwest´s Largest Social Club for Big Beautiful Women, Big
Handsome Men, friends & admirers.

Fat Pride World Wide - The growing movement for avoirdupois acceptance (yea Marilyn!)

Obesity ´epidemic´: Who are you calling fat?

New nerves grown from fat cells
goooood fat, gooooood fat :)

The Padded Lilies making waves on MSNBC week in pictures.

Velvet´s Myspace page all vixen all the time

Joy Nash

Big Moves Calendar! Because everyone can dance.

Size Matters with Veronica

Product Reivew - Sugar Free Fish

2007-08-27T22:15:00.000-06:00

Swedish Fish - sugar free

Color: Red

Quantity consumed: 1 fish though re-testing was later needed to confirm the results.

Flavor: So so, not nearly as good as original fish.

Elapsed time to obscenely loud stomach noises never before heard in your life: 10 min

Elapsed time to explosive diarrhea: 20 min

Number of loperamide hydrochloride tables needed to counter act the consumption of 1 red sugar free swedish fish: 1.5 caplets.

Later further testing confirmed that the number of anti diarrheal tablets = approximately the number of fish consumed.

My testing has concluded that Sugar Free Swedish Fish are indeed evil (also proving that evil can be manufactured by man), and should have never been created for human consumption.

I recommend their purchase as gifts to people you
(a) truely hate
(b)are trying to kill.

Sugar free swedish fish final score: -100

New links Aug/Sept 2007

2007-08-21T10:47:00.000-06:00

Big Fat Carnival 6th Edition!

PODCAST Calorie myths Dr Glenn Gaesser. At the bottom of the page in this link there is an MP3 podcast of his presentation.

Brain System Serves as 'Remote Control' for Fat Metabolism

An INTERVIEW with Dr. Claude Bouchard

The of week Sept 17, 2007 a debate between Paul Campos and Kelly D. Brownell in the LA Times

1: How obese are we?

2: Why is our flab state business?

3: The best anti-obesity policies

4: Obesity myths

5. Culture matters in the obesity debate

Talking Shop: Beth Ditto
The big show Exploring the larger side of Burlesque at the Milky Way
FTC goes after star of weight-loss infomercial This made me smile :)
Thinner - Paul Campos
For the Overweight, Bad Advice by the Spoonful
Does God want you to be slim? Watch Marylin Wann's response. CNN Video
Moulin Huge!
Fantastic fat belly dancer courtesy of Big Fat Deal
Interview with Linda Bacon on weight and health
CAMPOS: Who do you trust?
Sista Big Bones Video - YouTube
Mo'Nique's Video Clips Flash - click on the Video link once you are there. You have to watch the Mo'Nique's Dance Video
the adipositivity project validity of big women, one fat fanny at a time.
Meowser's Venus of Willendorf song

New Links Welcome

2007-08-03T06:46:00.001-06:00

If you have a good fat positive link you'd like me to add to the list please post it here and I will check it out.