Movement! Fat Shame! And put your fetus on a diet!

Busy week for me, so short post of some news of the week...

First off I will bring you some good news. I have mentioned many times on this blog the importance of exercise. CBS news brings you 12 tips for fat people to exercise. This is based on Jeanette DePatie, book, The Fat Chick Works Out! Movement is important for all bodies. Remember do what you can. You don't have to run a marathon (unless you want to.) Number 1o on the list is start slow. Right now I'm training for an all day 8 mile hike in July. 

Check out Amy Farrell on the Colbert Report  as she promotes her book Fat Shame. I haven't read it yet, but I'm looking forward to it and will post a review here.

 

Occasionally I have joked on this blog that we will one day they will put fetuses on diets and that we will have eating disorders right in the womb. It's a joke no longer. Doctors in the UK are doing a drug trial of giving fat pregnant women the diabetes drug Metformin so they don't have fat children. The Metformin would stop the fetus from absorbing too much food from the mother who being fat is obviously an out of control eater and will not stop eating until her fetus is 100 lbs.

And my essay on Glee was mentioned in Jezebel.