I had this in my other post on the June issue of Oprah, but there was just so much good stuff in it, I decided to make it a separate post.
There’s a great article by Eve Ensler on her new play, The Good Body. Here are some highlights:
[The Good Body] is an examination of what […]

Damn those Yalies. They’ve done this to me before. They post a controversial blog item and then screw up the link on it.
Anyways, the item says this:

A free research paper, provided by Leade Health, a group that focuses on health coaching in the workplace, claims that obesity is the leading cause of employee productivity loss.

A […]

Oh, this item from today’s Huffington Post is really depressing:

[It] is stunning to learn that the Department of Agriculture has had data since 1981 showing dramatic declines in the nutritional content of modern fruits and vegetables.
According to the data, half the major nutrients tracked by the department from 1950 to 1999 showed significant declines — […]

Post-recovery, I started to try and respond to the most recent comment in the intellectual dishonesty thread. I typed up a few paragraphs, and debated about a comparison to religion and abortion before thinking better of it, and just trashed my response.
But watching yesterday’s Oprah got me thinking about this in a different way. […]

So I came across this in Tish’s fat acceptance-oriented blog:

There’s a difference between acknowledging the too often difficult experience of being fat and the intellectual dishonesty inherent in trying to be fat political and still trying to lose weight.

Ouch.

Earlier this month, AlterNet posted an article that looked at the why the idea of an “obesity epidemic” is flawed: One Big Fat Lie.
The article is really good, so please go there and read the whole thing. But I want to highlight one part (emphasis mine):

There is a slippery slope from dieting to disease, as […]

Alright, I’ve been putting this off because I’m still having trouble putting all the pieces together in my head. But I’m just going to go with what I got, and will add more later.
So, in part one of this thread, I talked about coming across the following from Pattie Thomas, someone very prominent in the […]

This is the second part of a three-part thread I started yesterday. I think this one will be fairly short, as I really want to work on part 3, in which I’m going to explore whether wanting to lose weight and supporting fat acceptance are mutually exclusive.

But first, I’m just going to just list a […]

My story with food and fat is a complicated one, but whose story isn’t? The way I got to nearly 400 lbs was to eat my way there. There’s no question of “but I don’t eat any more than” such-and-such skinny friend. No, I’m a binge eater…one of those who can eat a thousand […]

Regina Wilshire, who writes Weight of the Evidence, has, IMO, a must-read blog for anyone interested in following the science of weight and who speculates, as I do, that there’s a lot more going on to weight loss than “eat less, exercise more.” Composition of foods in the diet is a particularly valuable research topic […]

The folks at Big Fat Blog have put together a great page called Big Fat Facts:

The overall goal of Big Fat Facts is simple: to get information out there that directly combats “conventional wisdom” on fat, diets, weight loss, and health.

As the credits for BFF indicate, this is a good summary of the work of […]

There was a great pointer on Big Fat Blog to a UCLA report that concludes that “the so-called obesity epidemic is at best a metaphor and not a very effective one at that.” (I’ve talked about why I agree with this perspective a while back, so I won’t go into it here.)
The full […]

Oh, this is probably less than coherent, but I’m going to just post in anyways…it’s getting late, and I don’t want to hang onto it until tomorrow!
Jimmy Moore pointed to an interesting blog post by Micki McGee on the social and economic forces that could be contributing to obesity in America.
Micki doesn’t […]

I picked up Andrew Weil’s new book, Healthy Aging, over the weekend. I’m a big fan of his, and often go searching his website when I have questions on health.
Interestingly, his book briefly touches on the subject of health and weight in a way that is complementary to the themes being raised by books […]

Okay, so I’ve been a bit snippy about the media deciding to “expose” what it’s like to weigh 350 by putting Tyra Banks and an ET correspondent into a fat suit and then parading them around with a hidden camera. Of course, what both of them made a huge deal about was the “horrible” way […]

So I got Eric Oliver’s Fat Politics from Amazon on Saturday. I was out quite a bit over the weekend, so only had a chance to skim it last night. Based on what I’ve read so far, I think it has many of the points covered in Paul Campos’ Obesity Myth:

BMI is terrible as […]