Author: Michelle

  • Canadian doctor shocks the world by announcing that all fat people may not be deathly ill.

    I’m running off to school, but here. Stunning insights abound, such as: Many people who meet the body mass index criteria for obesity “are really not that sick at all,” says Sharma, chairman for cardiovascular obesity research and management at the University of Alberta and scientific director of the Canadian Obesity Network. ‘Obesity was far…

  • Cogent quotes – the basics of fat.

    Just a few quotes pulled from off-the-top-of-my-head articles addressing The Basics of Fat. For the benefit of people who genuinely haven’t heard this stuff yet. On the scourge of OMGbesity: “The claim that we are seeing an ‘epidemic’ of overweight and obesity implies an exponential pattern of growth typical of epidemics. The available data do…

  • Stairway to Health, or, Let’s Judge People for Not Taking the Stairs.

    So here’s the thing. I’ve worked at several different places, and am now going to school at a place promoting the ubiquitous Stairway to Health campaign. And here’s the second thing: people are really goddamn preachy when it comes to taking the stairs. I was at work recently when an older man, likely in his…

  • Dear dieting friends,

    I was reading The Rotund’s post about grey areas and lines in the sand, and I could feel the wheels in my brain slowly clunking into action. (They’ve been very relaxed brain-wheels for the last while.) I started thinking about how I feel about having friends who go on diets or whatnot. And I realized…

  • Is eating an addiction?

    In Australia, the New South Wales government is introducing a quitline to help tackle obesity. You call them up, they tell you to stop being so fat, I guess. It’s going to be called a “get healthy” line. Because fat /= healthy fat = smoking (?) There’s the unspoken implication here that people will call…