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When Other People Pay For It, They Can Claim the Right to Control It
I’ve said this several times before, but it bears repeating: when other people can make a reasonable argument that they are paying for the choices you make about your body (even if those choices are...
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Case-building: Making Fatties the Deviants
In every good moral panic one needs a deviant group on which to blame the ills of the current moral (financial, political) crisis. Since moral panics seek to fix some broken part of society, it makes...
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Quick Hit: The Myth of the Obesity Tsunami
A great Op-Ed is out today from Cato: The Myth of the “Obesity Tsunami” Here are the last three paragraphs, but I encourage you to read the whole piece. No Sanity Watchers’ points required! The...
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Eugenics Rears Its Ugly Head, Again
When you deliver your body to the State, expect the State to start: Making you do things Preventing you from doing things In other words, if you hand your body over to someone else, that someone else...
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BMI of Every US Citizen to be Tracked
Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that...
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On the 1% increase of obese and overweight in the US
If you haven’t yet seen the article from Reuters: More than 70 million US adults obese, US agency says And here’s a link to the actual CDC report Hey look, the obesity level in the US is remaining...
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Food Addiction the Next Focus of Obesity Epipanic
In a study posted online that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the response of 48 healthy...
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On Mother’s Day 2011, Hate for Fat Moms in Abundance
I’ve been tweeting up a storm this Mother’s Day morning, all on the #thingsfatpeoplearetold hashtag. Not about anything particularly new, or some fat-hating piece released this morning, but rather on...
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A Bad Day for Fat Liberty
And liberty, everywhere. In Dundee, Scotland, fat kids from a non-neglectful household are being put up for adoption by the state because their parents failed to ‘slim them down.’ Seriously. Fuck. I’ve...
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Other reasons why fat person cost calculations are bogus
Ragen has a great article out today, please take a look if you haven’t seen it already: The True Cost of Fatties In her post, Ragen talks about how the back of the envelope ‘study’ done a couple of...
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