Category Archives: Fatness

Quotes from the (Outer) Fatosphere

By Michelle | Published: July 2, 2010
There’s quite a bit of good writing not syndicated by our own dear little feed, so I thought it would be cool to start linking some of the stuff I run into elsewhere. So, in response to a loathsome editorial postulating that the extravagant air conditioning of public spaces is the fault of the fat, [...]
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Dear Fat Nutritionist – do people trust you?

By Michelle | Published: November 26, 2009
I’m beginning to work through my email archives of letters people have sent me. Here’s one that I absolutely loved. (I’ve added my own emphasis and omitted some identifying details.) Dear Michelle, I’m wondering what it’s like to be a fat nutritionist. Just to give you my background, I’m in recovery from an eating disorder. [...]
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News – Unhyped obesity associations: inequality, hunger, and dieting.

By Michelle | Published: November 23, 2009
When it comes to black-box epidemiology, wherein associations and correlations are drawn between two or more conditions, but where the causal mechanisms behind those associations are left shrouded in convenient mystery, nothing seems to gratify researchers more than showing how fatness (i.e. “obesity”) is associated with a host of scary-sounding chronic diseases, while implying that [...]
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Are fat people unhealthy? (part 2)

By Michelle | Published: July 3, 2009
Continued from part 1: …For health practitioners, particularly those enamoured with biochemical indices and relative-risk reduction strategies, the notion of one, simple solution [weight loss] to a myriad of chronic diseases — and possibly to mortality itself — is eminently seductive. Sadly, I also think it’s wrong. Why is it wrong? Because, first of all, [...]
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Are fat people unhealthy?

By Michelle | Published: June 18, 2009
There certainly seems to be a lot of evidence to support the conclusion that we are, or at least to show associations between high body weight and poor health. But I’m wondering, what’s really the most important question here? Whether fat people are unhealthy? Or why fat people might be unhealthy, if they are? I [...]
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What’s all this, then?

By Michelle | Published: June 1, 2009
It’s my blog about normal eating. You’re reading it. So, I’m working on this thing I like to call my Unified Theory of Kicking Ass. What that means is, I’m reading and learning stuff about normal eating and nutrition and how people change their behaviour. I have a pretty decent understanding of this stuff already, [...]
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All women are real.

By Michelle | Published: May 1, 2009
I was reading the NAAFA blog’s latest update on the casting for a new TV show, and this stopped me dead in my tracks: “More To Love is by the same guys that do “The Bachelor” for ABC and is essentially the same show, except all the gals on the show are real girls with [...]
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