Lara Frater's Blog, page 24

Small steps that should be bigger.

I'm sorry to say I never watched more than two episodes of Huge.  I find it kind of bittersweet. I'm drifting away from TV, only watching maybe half-dozen regular shows as I am tired of seeing either no fat people or when I do it has something to do with dieting, fat jokes, thin people in fat suits, fat=mental disease or overeating.  While the one thing Huge had going for it was the large number of fat actors which was awesome but of course it's all about how fat they are at this fat camp.  

That being said, there is petition to save the show.  I wouldn't mind keeping it around, only for the actually having more diverse actors. 

The Surgeon general of the United States after all the obesity=evil rhetoric kind of said something that sounds a bit like Health at Every Size stating "The good news is we can be healthy and fit, at any size or any weight." This is a start. The SG website still points all the same rhetoric we heard before. So until I see stigma decreased, and a true promotion of health over weight, this is just lip service. 

And finally after something like 7 years since Public Citizen asked to take the crappy and dangerous drug meridia off the market, the FDA has finally done it!

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WLS and Biggest Loser cuts down fat people

I won't ever stop saying it. Weight loss surgery is deadly, forced anorexia and not as effective as it seems and it seems to have a risk factor of suicide. And if you have it done as a teen, you might be increasing the risk of birth defects if you get pregnant in the future.  The worst part is that the procedure is marketed as something easy but instead you might be trading one set of symptoms for others.

So let's see . . . so-called "obesity related diseases" might be controlled by a change in diet, movement or taking a medication. (This might not result in weight loss). Side effects are minimal and probably mostly have to do with adherence issues and medication side effects.  

But if you "cure" these dieases with weight loss surgery you run the following risks: death, malnutrition, malabsorption, suicide, follow up surgery, gallstones, dumping syndrome, no weight loss, weight gain, forced anorexia, vomiting, pneumonia, kidney stones, hernia, blood clots, birth defects. Not to mention a return of these diseases. With these kind of side effects? Is it even worth it?

Also good news Biggest Loser ratings are way down.  Are Americans tired of it? Realize it's stupid and mean? Or are they watching Glee? It doesn't matter as long as it dies before it kills one of their contestants.

Fat kids again part 7 billion.

First off, Happy 5th Anniversary to this blog. I've been blogging a lot longer than I have ever done a diet. So kudos to me :-)

I'm really tired of the stupidity of "Let's Move."  Not only might it take food from the hungry, it most likely won't work and be a colossal waste of time and money.  Even the creator of the Zone diet thinks it will fail. Granted not for the same reasons I do.  Sure kids need their vegetables and play but the better idea would be to use the money to make sure all schools have gym classes and healthy and tasty lunches.  

Oh, and guess what, if you are fat, and your parents are fat, they are to blame. They were bad parents. I don't care if you're on the honor roll. Your parents made you fat. Therefore, they are unfit parents, you need to be put in a foster home with some thin folks. It doesn't matter if it isn't a loving home and your uprooted. As long as your thin! 

And the way to remedy this it to join a gym. Not just any gym but Anytime fitness.  Yes, pay your hard earned money to not be an embarrassment to your child!

Or how about the opposite? Hate your fat child instead! A new study in the journal Obesity reveals that parents offen are harder on fatter children. This study showed that parents would more likely to help a thinner child buy a car than a fatter one.

I doubt Michelle Obama is reading this. But Let's Move will cause eating disorders and heap undeserved shame on both parents and children.  And fatness will not be cured. There have been fat people since the dawn of time or at least as 25,000 years. We are not going anywhere and some of us are tired of being ostresized.

Awesome Body Politics Conference In NY!

Breaking Boundaries:
Body Politics and the Dynamics of Difference

a Women's History Conference at Sarah Lawrence College
Bronxville, New York
March 4-5, 2011
Free and Open to the Public

Keynote Speaker:

Marilyn Wann
Fat Activist and Author of Fat!So?

When it comes to "the body," the definition of normal is fluid and changes across cultures and time. In each context, there are those who have been exploited and oppressed because they do not fit prevailing notions of beauty. This conference will explore...

Damned on both sides of the aisle

Short post today. I had no internet over the weekend (my house was in the vicinity of a macroburst (no damage)).  So I have to go with something easy -- pointing out that Glenn Beck is a disgusting "human" being.

On a recent show, Glenn Beck complained about Michelle Obama's Let's Move program. For about five seconds I agreed with him until he added we should just let fat people die. Unfortunately the left's based response wasn't "you're horrible, how could you wish people would die" but...

Is losing weight actually bad for your health and a sad note.

A study in Japan shows that as people lose weight, their body releases persistent organic pollutants which were stored in their fat cells. These toxins can cause diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia. Anyone recognize these disease?  All of them are blamed on being fat. And with a 95% - 98% dieting failure weight. Many of these people who have lost weight, gain it back and when they get these diseases it will be blamed not on weight loss/gain but being fat.

BMI isn't really a good...

Diet drugs again

When I talk about diet drugs, I often have the same mantra: "No diet drug has been proven to work in the long run and some are dangerous to your health."

Well, I'm repeating myself again (and fairly certain I've given the mantra about this drug before) for the drug Sibutramine known by the brand name Meridia which apparently can cause an increased likelihood of heart attacks and strokes according to a study by the New England Journal of Medicine (who are now asking it be removed from the...

Starving the poor, shunning the fat.

I read a very disturbing article in the Hill about using food stamp money (which has already been cut) to fund Mrs. Obama's fat to thin project Let's Move, which probably won't work anyway. 

So according to Mrs. Obama and congress, it's better for children to starve than be fat. Even though starvation already kills 17,000 CHILDREN A DAY, it's better that they be thin and dead then fat and probably healthy.  Also a county in England wants to know what's in their kids' lunch boxes. Because it...

Pay no attention to that person behind the curtain. (And Igigi Reprint)

I often get comments on my blog and in real life from people who feel it is their moral obligation to tell me why I am fat and how to best fix that.  I've been told I eat too much or not the right things (like they are watching me) and I don't exercise enough or at all.  Despite that I often blog about fun exercises people can do and that chronic dieters need to learn to eat normally again, these naysayers (usually naturally slender people) assume that if a person is fat, they have to be...