I was thinking about this today. And it occurred to me: if all the fat people in the world suddenly stopped participating in everything, do you know what would happen?
I do. The entire goddamn world would collapse.
We fund the healthcare systems that we’re supposedly draining. We run the governments and the immigration services that [...]

The most graphic representation of the “What the Hell” effect. Thank God for The Kids in the Hall.
(Also, this.)

I recently received a Becel newsletter (don’t ask) very excited to announce that “Being moderately overweight increases heart disease risk.” You won’t be terribly surprised to find that this description stretches the truth just at leeeetle.
The original study (Association of Overweight With Increased Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Partly Independent of Blood Pressure and Cholesterol [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about fat acceptance again, mostly due to reading Kate Harding’s excellent blog. I’ve been noticing, in myself, a move toward a different stage of personal understanding about the issue. It seems like there are stages of fat acceptance.
Stage one is based mostly on disproving stereotypes. There is a cursory [...]

I’m starting this blog because all of the things I think about fat and nutrition keep seeping over into my other blog, which is a poetry blog, in which I write whiny awful poetry, and this kind of fraternizing just won’t do.
Here is where I will post my rambling rants on anything that bugs the [...]