…my unwholesome fascination with this man.

Walk it out…

Then break it down.

Re: this.
Dan Savage does occasionally give lip-service to the idea of not discriminating against people based on their size and weight. But at the same time, he comes back again and again to statements that are not backed up by evidence, such as:
And if Ms. English—a 400 hundred pound woman—stops eating drive-through garbage, starts [...]

A famous actress was quoted in the newspaper regarding a role that required her to gain weight. Something about the quote struck me as odd. To paraphrase, she said, “Sure, it sounds great to gain weight. You can indulge all your fantasies of endless chocolate, unlimited pasta and garlic bread…but after a while your blood [...]

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

I’ve spent most of this morning dancing around to mid-60s British invasion music in my bathrobe. In front of the big window where the neighbours can see in. Take that, neighbours!
I guess I am very happy that my paper is finished and turned in, and all I have to do now is some minimal preparation [...]

I stayed up until 6:30am working on my paper the other night. Whatever night that was. The last time I posted. I think the 8th/9th.
I’m quickly losing track of days.
Here’s an excerpt (remember, rough draft still):

For the finding that Hispanic and Asian girls had lower levels of strenuous activity, the authors offer the explanation that [...]

I’m doing this critical analysis of a random research study I dredged out of the depths of some online peer-reviewed search engine. I just had to find something, anything, using race or ethnicity as a variable related to some nutrition topic.
The paper I decided to use, PURELY because it was only three pages long and [...]

Got off the phone and practically ran to the internet cafe to write about it.
She was calm, with a distinct Midwestern accent.
I told her about the problem with my family (ie they are all on the verge of trying some diet pill supplement thingy ordered from TV) and asked her how one goes about [...]

Wanna see something disturbing? Check out www.blubberbusters.com.
No time to write for now. Let me just say that this website contains examples of everything I’ve ever read NOT to expose children to in my nutrition study. Morons.

Say a reporter unearths a little-known study that says butter is bad for you. Wow! What a headline. It makes a great story, it sells papers and gets TV viewers. Of course, it’s only one study, and maybe it was done a long time back, but it’s still a professional source. [...]

This is something I started writing for my website, when it’s back up. It’s incomplete since I haven’t listed my sources and stuff yet, but here it is, in the rough.

If you don’t already know, I’m going to be the one to break it to you…and you can trust me on this. Diets [...]

I found a fascinating PDF file* on the internet regarding certain myths about dieting/nutrition. One of the myths mentioned was the oft-quoted “98% of diets fail” statistic. This paper makes a valiant effort to show why the number is a myth but, in my opinion, falls short.
Why? Because they claim the number [...]

So, I tracked back to one more reference citing the “95-98% of diets fail” figure. It is a letter written by one Aldebaran, a person, I think, who was involved in the organisation known as the Fat Underground in the 60s or 70s. This was a rather radical (in both senses of the [...]

I tracked down one of the sources listed in the “Dieting Continuum” paper for the “95-98% of all diets fail” figure. The book is The Obsession by Kim Chernin, a very good book, in my opinion. I remembered it mainly as a personal memoir, but it actually does have credible sources listed and [...]

I get pretty annoyed with Oprah, because she’s such an influential woman, yet she has always advocated weight loss.
I was watching her show today, as I occasionally do, and they were talking about the effect of media on kids. One of the experts on the show was talking about the health effects of TV [...]