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• Weight-Free Public Health Messages

  

  It’s become popular in recent years to act as if “public health” means making fat people’s heath the public’s business, or at least that most public health... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• My Super Secret Magic Phrase

  

  I’m finally back and settled from my Massachusetts trip, I had a wonderful time at the 5 colleges and I hope to see y’all again soon. Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Katie Hopkins is Bigot

  

  Katie Hopkins, a former contestant on The Apprentice UK, made news today saying that she would not hire an obese person. Charmingly, she didn’t just make this... Read more

  Posted on 28 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• The BS of BMI Report Cards

  

  Several readers sent me news stories today about how Massachusetts schools are now testing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of students and sending letters home to... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Why Does It Have to Be About Obesity?

  

  Just like I’m tired of fat people having experimental medicine practiced on them without their consent, I am tired of people being encouraged to... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Not Tiny, Not Working On It, and Not Putting Up With This

  

  A couple of days ago I got a lovely massage. After two non-stop cross country flights, two 3- hour bus rides, and doing my workouts in the fricken freezing... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Tiny Acts of Revolution

  

  A lot of the projects that we do on this blog are large scale, and that’s cool and there are lots of good things that come from that. Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Talented Fat People Are Not Actually Shocking

  

  I just saw another video on Facebook where I’m supposed to be shocked because someone who is fat, and therefore doesn’t meet the stereotype of beauty, can... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Fat Prisoners of War

  

  Sadly I hear stories all the time about a fat person who has put their life on hold – they skip events, they don’t do things that they want to do, they don’t... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Bodies: Glorifying, Demonizing, Pathologizing

  

  Ragen Chastain – 5’4 284lbs Picture by Substantia Jones for Adipositivity.comAs a society we have a lot of trouble accepting the fact that bodies come in lots o... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Radically Hospitable

  

  I’ve been having a complete blast here at Dartmouth. This morning I was giving a talk to the Dean of the College Staff and one of the speakers who went before m... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Even If Weight Loss Was Easy

  

  Greetings from Dartmouth College – I’m excited to be back here (although to a SoCal by way of Texas girl it’s cold beyond all reason. Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• Is It Ok to Have Diet-Talk Free Spaces?

  

  Two friends of mine had an altercation on their Facebook page today. It started with someone posting a story about his wife’s weight loss. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• No Person is a Study

  

  Here is a scenario I see all the time. Someone posts a discussion about the massive long-term failure rate of dieting, including a number of studies that have... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Obesity Researcher’s Questionable Confession

  

  The sun revolves around the Earth. Thalidomide is a great treatment for morning sickness. Heroin is a non-addictive substitute for morphine. Lysol is a fantasti... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Healthcare, Fault, and Fat People

  

  One of the ways that our healthcare system massively fails people is when healthcare providers presented with a patient who has a health issue focus on whether... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 DIET & WEIGHT, FITNESS, HEALTH

• No New Or Perfect Me

  

  We’ve been receiving lots of diet books for the Size Diversity Task Force’s project to create a Guinness World Record paper mache sculpture. Read more

  Posted on 04 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Fat Dating

  

  I won the dating lottery.When I heard about Golda Poretsky’s new master class on body positive dating, I was really happy – I think it’s a subject that doesn’t... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Disney Does It Better – Activism Works

  

  You may remember the Disney “Habit Heroes” debacle – a “ride” where bad habits were represented by fat people who kids defeated with the help of “Will Power” an... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH

• Fat and Fat but

  

  In my post about one of the most truly awful attempts in history to help fitness instructors work with fat bodies, there was a category called The Athletic But... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2013 FITNESS, HEALTH