Fatadelic

Thank you, Kate Harding, you’ve nailed it down and driven it home:

Children’s bodies are not a problem for the government to solve.

It’s such a simple concept, isn’t it? So why is it so hard for the fuckers to grasp?

Let’s say it again, with emphasis:

Children’s bodies are not a problem for the government to solve.

Children’s bodies are not a problem for the government to solve.

Children’s bodies are not a problem for the government to solve.

Children’s bodies are not a fucking problem for the government to solve.

End of story.

By the way, if you haven’t already, go and read Junkfood Science’s take on the NSW Government’s Munch ‘n’ Move program (and as well as pretty much every thing Sandy has ever written.)

Is it really so radical to say that Fat Acceptance spaces need to be free of diet discussions? Actually, I don’t think it is. And I say this even though I believe that there has to be a starting point on the FA journey for everyone (as I have repeatedly stated before). I just don’t think weight loss stories are an appropriate starting point.

I’ve put together this diagram and the points below to help clarify my thoughts - but it’s really a work in progress and is intended as a starting point for discussion. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is have at it, discuss, dispute, whatever. Dive right in. The water’s fine.

Continue reading ‘Dieting and Fat Acceptance’

When even teeny-tiny starlets are ‘dimpled’ - despite their ability and motivation to throw endless cash at endless liposuction, creams, super-dooper marine mud goop treatments, pummelling or detoxing and whatever other arcane hoodoo has been most recently dreamt up by savvy snake-oil sellers - it is time to accept the inevitability of cellulite.

Birth. Death. Taxes. Cellulite.

Cellulite IS.

Continue reading ‘Cellulite IS.’

In lieu of an actual post:

Things my body wants me to eat today:

• Grapes! yummy fresh, crispy, sweet grapes that burst in my mouth like little bubbles of joy.
• Muesli - but wish I had some apple juice and live culture yoghurt to go on top, not milk.
• Watercress but I don’t have any, boo hoo.
• Steamed hong kong style dumplings

Things my body does not want today:

• Eggs. I am so off eggs at the moment. John has been wanting to make me an une coccotte (spelling errors entirely mine) which is an eggy spinachy breakfast thing, but I really can’t stomach the thought of eggs at present.
• Coffee.
• Milk.

As for anything else, the jury is currently out.

Did you know recipes make you fat? Well, according to Dr John Tickell, at least:

Dr John Tickell - the nutrition and longevity expert that appeared on the TV show Celebrity Overhaul - reckons slavishly following recipes makes Australians fat.

“Take a look at people who are into recipes and they are either large or too thin. The more recipes people get involved with, the harder it is for them to lose weight,” says the author of The Great Australian Diet.

Umm, right. Why do I think this is somehow a gimmick to get people to buy his Great Australian Diet book? So they can learn how NOT to use a book to eat.

Continue reading ‘Here’s a new one: Recipes make you fat.’

Was just reading the comments on Kate’s post on Intuitive Eating over at Shapely Prose, and Emerald’s comment struck a chord with me:

One of the things I find refreshing about the intuitive eating concept is that it acknowledges that you can be hungry for a particular food, rather than just generally ‘hungry’. It’s an old parental trick, I’m told by people I’ve known with kids - if you say you want a cookieand you’re not satisfied when Mom offers you an apple, you can’t really be hungry. Implication being, if you were really hungry you’d eat anything regardless of whether you like it or not.

I’ve been able to apply intuitive eating for myself for quite a number of years (although I didn’t call it quite that until recently). I try to listen to what my body wants. Chocolate at 10.30a? Go for it. Salad for lunch? done, But Emerald’s observations on parental tricks brought another aspect of intuitive eating to mind: kids and food.

Continue reading ‘Inuitive Eating and Kids’

If you haven’t already. go check out the new blog from The Health Institute of Nutrition for down to earth factual analysis and advice such as this:

1. If you are a fat person, be sure to choose a physician who is aware of your size and its dire implications about you as a person. If your doctor fails to comment on your weight within five minutes of arriving, he may have poor eyesight. If he offers to treat the problem you came in with instead of telling you to stop eating doughnuts, he may not be a real doctor.
2. If you are a thin person, be aware that when you go to a doctor, you may be forced to suffer through an actual examination and then be subjected to a course of treatment which can include prescription drugs and even—in extreme cases—surgery. Unlike a fat person, your problems are complex and do not have an easy solution

and this:

Many people are familiar with the well-known and very good fact that “white foods” such as rice, bread, and potatoes are extremely unhealthy for you. In scienterrific terms, this is because they contain “empty calories“, special calories that are chemically formulated to not provide you with any energy or sustenance but instead convert directly into fat.

The rough formula is that for every one pound of rice or pasta you eat, you will gain five pounds of fat. This is caused by chemistry.

Many people also know that the absolute worst thing you can do—worse than killing a million baby kittens on Christmas—is drinking your calories. Liquid calories such as the ones found in soda and juice are terribly unhealthy. It works like this: “calories” are actually units of heat energy. For any type of matter, the liquid state exists at a higher temperature than the solid state.

Therefore, liquid calories count double as compared to solid ones.

So, what do you get when you combine the dangers of a white food with liquid calories?

A tall frosty glass of death.

Or, as it’s more commonly known, MILK.

The link between milk and death has long been established. Consider that the first generation of Americans known to drink milk was also the first generation of Americans to suffer the heartbreak and indignity of mortality. This pattern has continued unabated through the ages, to the point where there are now over three hundred million people living in America and every one of them is expected to die at some point.