{"id":1074,"date":"2009-11-21T02:10:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T06:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2010-01-31T19:20:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T00:20:36","slug":"shit-that-pisses-me-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatnutritionist.com\/index.php\/shit-that-pisses-me-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Shit that pisses me off — fat students not allowed to graduate, and other headlines."},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re fat, too bad — no degree for you<\/a>. Not until you’ve been rehabilitated and\/or re-educated, that is.<\/p>\n

Lincoln University<\/a> has a new policy<\/a> whereby students with a BMI over 30 are required to either lose weight or take a “Fitness for Life” course. Since they’re obviously too fucking dim to understand anything about nutrition or fitness, given that they’re fatty-fatty-fat-fats. (Relevant MetaFilter post<\/a>. And NPR<\/a> blog post.)<\/p>\n

Okay, I know you know this, but let me just state, for the record: I am really goddamn fat. I’ve also just completed about four years’-worth<\/em> of classes that focus on nutrition and fitness. And, now that I know a thing or two about nutrition and health — I’m still really goddamn fat.<\/em> <\/p>\n

(Thank you to Charlene, who emailed this in.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

ETA: Here’s a more in-depth<\/a> analysis of the school policy’s legality and implications.<\/em><\/p>\n

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A new study claims that “Self-control [is] key to preventing childhood obesity”<\/a> – except what I think they’re actually talking about is promoting eating competence<\/a> by not restricting children’s diets. But I’m sure measuring self-control is WAHAAAAY better for getting research funding.<\/p>\n

(Here’s<\/a> the abstract to the actual study. I need to read the whole thing still, but I reserve the right to be pre-emptively pissy about these things.)<\/p>\n

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And, lastly but not leastly, the mystifying “Stop picking on fat people”<\/a> appeared in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n

I read it and immediately thought, “Buuuuuhwhat?” <\/p>\n

Like, I’m sure it means well<\/em>, but there’s a lot of stupid shit in there, including many lulzy references to how much food fat people eat. (To wit: those fat people sure do eat a lot!) And the author compares fat people to “workaholics, alcoholics or garden-variety idiots.”<\/p>\n

Awesome.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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