Hugging and Chalking: There is no crisis

Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

There is no crisis

says Junk Food Science, who has carefully analyzed the recent report in JAMA on moderate to vigorous activity in children.

This week’s study found no correlation between changing activity levels and BMIs. Nor did it find that young people are less active today than they’ve ever been. Nor did it find poorer kids were more sedentary than richer kids. Nor did it even look at if activity levels during adolescence were related to adult levels or had any relationship to future health problems. Sandy finds and reports some connections between the authors and various causes, but I would suggest that reporting we are healthier than ever just wouldn't make a good story for the nightly news, nor would it be a good reason for the government agencies and think tanks to promote one more regulation or law to intervene in our personal lives.

Labels: BMI, children, JAMA, teen-agers

1 Comments:

At Monday, 11 August, 2008, Mike Hunt said…

We in the Fat Acceptance Movement lose credibility when our members make outrageous statement like "I weigh 400 pounds and I only eat 900 calories a day." That one does not even pass the giggle test. We need not apologize for our gluttony and gormandizing. We did not get fat because we hate food. We love food and we should love food. Life is short it is doubtful that there is a god so what we do on earth won't matter when we are gone. I for one will not apologize for my hedonism and neither should you.

Food is glorious. It is better than love by far. It never rejects you. Unlike "God" it never ignores your pleas. If love were better then parents would not be raising obese kids who will suffer ridicule from this fat hating society and allegedly a lifetime of health problems but let's not get on that slippery slope right now. No, this is about being unapologetic and guilt free about eating as much as we want, when ever we want and what ever we want.

I love feeder chat on Dimensions Magazine. I love calling these lovely BBWs pigs and the love it too. I love looking at extremely fat women. Most men do. If you do a Google image search and type in BBW you will find image after image of BBWs unashamedly showing off their lovely large bodies but if you Google terms like skinny woman (who'd want to?) and you will find mostly fully clothed stick girls. My point is fat women need not apologize for how much they eat. That is a sure way to develop an eating disorder. Do what I and other fat men do eat all you want and if someone has a problem with that just tell them to F off!

Our matra needs to be "You can't ever eat to much and you cannot ever weigh too much so don't judge us" I am hoping for a paradigm shift in the Fat Acceptance Movement. There is too much infighting and the cause of that infighting is because many of us in the movement will not say, "Yes that's right I eat 6000 calories a day everyday. You got a problem with that?