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Take the Pledge!I Pledge:* That I will not diet for one day, on May 6, International No Diet Day.* Instead of trying to change my body to fit someone else's standards, I will accept myself just as I am.* I will feed myself if I'm hungry.* I will feel no shame or guilt about my size or about eating.* I will think about whether dieting has improved my health and well-being or not.* And I will try

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"If fat is the new normal why is fat discrimination on the rise? Follow the lives of three women struggling with fat and fat hatred. Learn the hidden facts about fat, food and health. Experience straight and gay fat folks happy and healthy in their own skin."For more info: WWW.FAT-FILM.COM"

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November 26, 2006Big People on CampusBy ABBY ELLINASK Sheana Director for a detailed description of herself, and chances are the word fat will come up. It is not uttered with shame or ire or any sense of embarrassment; it’s simply one of the things she is, fat.“Why should I be ashamed?” said Ms. Director, 22, a graduate student in women’s studies at San Diego State University, who wields the word

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A friend of mine has a new blog and it is a good one, with lots of good info:Junkfood Science:The truth about food, fat and health. Learn the science that mainstream media doesn't report and how to critically think about the junk they do that's not fit to swallow.Sandy Szwarc knows what she is talking about. She's had a series of great articles on Tech Central Station on the issues of the so

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Fat! Fit? Fabulous!Meet the East Bay activists and researchers at the center of the new civil-rights movement known as Health at Every Size.By Lauren GardThe last thing Lake Merritt pedestrians expected to see on a recent Thursday afternoon was a fat, vibrant woman inviting them to step onto a scale. "Would you like a free compliment?" Marilyn Wann called out to a group of teenage girls on the

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Stacy Bias, founder of FatGirl Speaks is putting together a book and is looking to interview fat women about their experiences. The book "will consist of a series of monologues suitable for stage performance, all around the topic of fat. Bias intends to interview 150+ women of size, all across the United States, and in Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Samoa, Asia, India and South America."So all

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So who is sponsoring the 10th International Congress on Obesity 2006? A whole lotta companies with a vested interest in selling things to fat people to try and make them thin (most with a very miserable success rate. There is no profit in people who actually like themselves, so these companies have to come up with epidemics and pandemics to panic people in to buying their crap. Here's a tidbit,

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Legislating Weight Loss: Is Fatness a Federal Affair?Thursday, August 31 2006 @ 08:33 AM PDTHealthPull up the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) homepage these days, and it looks frighteningly like the latest copy of "Glamour" or “‘O’ Magazine.” At www.fda.gov/loseweight, we're told, "You Can Lose Weight—Here's How!" followed by instructions on counting calories, setting weight-loss

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Campos: Fat doesn't equal unhealthyAugust 1, 2006Occam's razor is a logical rule of thumb suggesting that, roughly speaking, a simple explanation which accounts for all the data is better than a complex one that does the same. For example, the fact that biologists have never seen a unicorn can be explained by the theory that unicorns are superintelligent beings that have devised technologies to

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The second Big Fat Carnival is up on This ain't livin'. Lots of great links to some great reading.

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The Big Fat Carnival - First Edition on Alas, a blog.The The Big Fat Carnival is a collection of "some of the best blog posts regarding fat pride; fat acceptance; critiques of anti-fat bigotry, attitudes and research; celebration of images of fat people; practical difficulties of being fat; fat love (queer and otherwise); feminist views of fat and fat acceptance; the health at every size movement

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THE STATE OF THE F-WORD – THREE LETTERS THAT STILL SHOCKBy Lynne MurrayThe word "Fat" is close enough to an insult that it catches the attention in a title. But what it conveys beyond that is a little more complicated. When the word Fat pops up, should we laugh, be afraid, angry or guilty? Through the magic of media firestorm, fatness is now looked on as a killer disease, a moral failing and a

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Size Matters Book Club Debuts November 8, 2005Size Matters, Too Radio Talk Show Host, Veronica Euell, is on a mission. Her mission is to take a look at issues regarding body size and weight through the lens of authors who have written about the same.(PRWEB) November 3, 2005 -- Size Matters, Too Radio Talk Show Host, Veronica Euell, is on a mission. Her mission is to take a look at issues

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I Take Up Space

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Love Your Body Day 2005 is October 19Hollywood and the fashion, cosmetics and diet industries work hard to make each of us believe that our bodies are unacceptable and need constant improvement. Print ads and television commercials reduce us to body parts — lips, legs, breasts — airbrushed and touched up to meet impossible standards. TV shows tell women and teenage girls that cosmetic

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Queen Latifah Encourages Others to Honor Confident, Courageous WomenFriday September 30, 3:54 pm ETOctober 8th Deadline Nearing to Nominate Candidates for Confidence Awards ProgramSECAUCUS, N.J., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Each day, inspiring women across the country help other women gain confidence and self-esteem through community education, fund-raising, self-empowerment and volunteer

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Fat & Choice: A Personal Essayby Marilyn WannPlenty of people think that I choose to be fat. Currently, it's popular to believe that everyone's weight is a choice, readily influenced by eating and exercise. This is a big, fat lie.Why would anyone (the government, doctors, advertisers, the media) lie? To make money. Fat hatred -- and fear of fat -- sells. Every year, Americans waste $50 billion

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Katrina Victims' 'Blessing': Clothes That FitPlus-Size Items Tough to Find Amid Donated ClothingBy ADRIENNE MAND LEWINSep. 20, 2005 - When Hurricane Katrina hit, many people evacuated with just the clothes they were wearing. But for many women who made it to safety, finding plus-size clothes that fit them among the garments donated to evacuees proved to be difficult or impossible."There was

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A User's Guide to Affirmationsby Beth HarperHow Affirmations Have Worked In My LifeAffirmations have been a Godsend for me over the past few years. I'd like to tell you a little about my life before I discovered how to use them, and a little of what it is like now. I'd also like to give you a few important principles on their creation and use, so you may adapt them in whatever ways best suit your

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Largesse Affirmations for Size Esteem1. I am a person of size and substance, worthy of self-respect and the respect of others.2. I am strong, healthy and beautiful just the weigh I am right now.3. I am capable of earning approval, winning affection and achieving happiness whatever the size or shape of my body at any particular time.4. I give myself permission to eat normally, and I recognize food

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Food Nannies Hawk the Hawkeye StateBy Sandy Szwarc Published 03/16/2005TCSLike newspapers across the country, the Des Moines Register has published a special series addressing the "obesity crisis." The Register series, which began last Sunday, was entitled "The Losing Battle" -- appropriately named, just not in the way the newspaper believes.The weight loss industry faces a losing battle

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Healthy Weight Journal March/April 1999 Vol. 13 #2Size AcceptanceDo-It-Yourself Self-Esteem Repairby Carol A. Johnson, MA1. Weight is not a measure of self-worth. Why should it be? Your self-worth is your view of yourself as a total person— how you treat others; how you treat yourself; the contributions you make to your family, your friends, your community, and society in general. Your weight is

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Father Knows Best?By Sandy Szwarc Published 02/28/2005 TCSIf ever there was reason to reconsider the wisdom of having our healthcare and insurance under employment or government mandate, the "war on obesity" is it.The surge of employer-based health insurance, which didn't happen in other insurance markets such as automobile and life insurance, and the creation of federal-based Medicare and

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French Women Do Too Get FatWhat the best seller neglects to mention.By Kate TaylorPosted Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, at 3:23 PM PTMireille Guiliano, the French-born CEO of Clicquot Inc., VeuveClicquot's American subsidiary, has many things to toast these days.Besides being 58 and still weighing what she did in her 20s, she isnow a best-selling author, too. Her recently published memoir-cum-dietbook

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Fat phobia makes us sick2005-02-23 / Knight Ridder / By Kathleen LeBescoDuring National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 27 to March 5), we hear a lot about the devastation that anorexia, bulimia and compulsive overeating can wreak on the lives of our citizens. However, in the midst of our everyday media messages, what we often miss is a sense of how our hostile attitudes toward fatness

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Fit for life: why fat is not the problemFebruary 24, 2005YOU can be fat and healthy. It sounds like heresy, but it's the message of a leading Sydney nutritionist and author, who says our medicos and politicians have created a moral panic about obesity that could be doing more harm than good.Sydney University's Jenny O'Dea is outraged at claims this week by University of Queensland researcher Alan

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Meet the Women of "Big Dance"February 21, 2005Are you ready to meet the women of "Big Dance"? Artistic director LYNDA RAINO teaches a modern dance class just for plus-sized people -- and she's revolutionizing the art form of movement in the process! ET has the story."The mandate of 'Big Dance' is 'You don't have to have a dancer's body; you only have to have a body that dances and dance with

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Learn to love your body, says belly dancer Ruthnlnews@inuk.co.uk16 February 2005BELLY dancer Ruth Cowan wants to help women of all shapes and sizes to love their bodies.The 47-year-old, of Alexandra Park Road, Muswell Hill, teaches the dance while delivering advice on body psychology.She said: "I want to help people feel comfortable with their bodies and to celebrate themselves as they are.

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Fat and proudActivist Heather MacAllister brings message of fat liberation to Ann ArborBy Jason MichaelOriginally printed 2/10/2005ANN ARBOR - OK, let's start here: What is "fat liberation?" Admit it, you read the subhead and wondered, right? Well, worry not. Heather MacAllister has an answer for you."It is the radical concept that people can be healthy, happy and sexually attractive at every

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Nonsense for the Diet SeasonBy Sandy Szwarc Published 01/26/2005 TCSAfter ringing in the New Year, the party's over. The diet season has begun and so do our resolutions to diet and exercise, quit smoking and begin a new life. "Yup, it'll be All Bran all the time in 2005," said food writer Gwyneth Doland.Just in time to accompany the weight loss advertisements that beset us every year at this

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Eating Disorders Awareness Week begins Green Ribbon campaign declares beauty comes in all colours, shapes and sizes S T O R Y - By Stacey Bowman, Assistant News Editor Never mind tipping the scale, some people are taunted about the length of their legs, according to Vivian Lee, ArtSci '06.Lee decided to showcase her petite frame on posters promoting positive body image as part of the Green

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The "Worst" of 2004 weight loss products cop 16th Annual Slim Chance AwardsGreen tea continues to cast an aura of Oriental slimness. This year’s worst diet gimmick takes it one step farther – not only do you drink this tea, but you attach a green tea patch to the thigh, and miracles begin to happen. Or so the advertiser claims. The worst diet pills of 2004 take narrow aim at specific

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Please Pass the CakeBy Sandy Szwarc Published 01/18/2005TCS"You'll have to stop this now. It's getting altogether too silly." --- comedian Graham Chapman (1941-1989)As incredible as it sounds, nutrition is no longer the priority for the government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The new guidelines put the entire nation on a diet and its key message is "eat less and exercise more to lose

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Club nights where being "plus" is a positive are full-size funBy Pamela SittSeattle Times staff reporterIn nightlife, as in T-shirts, there is fallacy in the notion that one size fits all.Melissa Habeck, a vivacious plus-size Seattleite, found that bars in Belltown and Pioneer Square just didn't fit right. They weren't comfortable, and they didn't make her feel fabulous.So she did what any smart

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Hey, Feds, Weight a Minute...By Sandy Szwarc, RN, BSN, CCP Published 10/26/2004 TCSThe federal government recently ruled that taxpayers will foot the bills for weight loss surgeries and other weight loss treatments for Medicare patients, if medical evidence can demonstrates their effectiveness. This is the door opening to broader obesity-related coverages, as a September 30th New York Times

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Love Your Body Day fights weight biasStudent suggests amending UT's discrimination policyBy Kristin ButlerLaura Gladney-Lemon said she has put up with "fat bias" long enough. After suffering ridicule from people throughout her life, she has decided to take a stand to raise awareness of weight-based discrimination on campus."At least once a month, someone on UT campus will be overtly mean to me

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Obese Women Start Diets YoungResearch Indicates that Semi-Starvation Leads to Weight GainBY Allison YoungContribution WriterWednesday, September 1, 2004A fat person is not necessarily a lazy person.A recent study by Joanna Ikeda, co-director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Weight and Health, indicated that of 149 women surveyed, all of whom are considered clinically obese, two-thirds had been on

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'Ample' flier sues airline for saying he needed 2 seatsHenry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff WriterThursday, September 23, 2004San Francisco ChronicleChronicle SectionsAn Oakland man who describes himself as being of "ample proportion" is suing Southwest Airlines, accusing the carrier of humiliating him by asking him to buy a second seat.Lionel Bea, 40, said in a lawsuit filed in Alameda County Superior

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It's the Fitness, StupidBy Sandy Szwarc, RN, BSN, CCP Published 09/16/2004TCSConsumers were left more confused than ever when the media reported on two obesity-related studies from the Journal of the American Medical Association last week. One seemed to find it was more important to be fit than thin for your heart health; the other that it was more important to be thin than fit to prevent

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Obese Flyer Sues Southwest August 25, 2004MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP)--A cosmetics company CEO has sued Southwest Airlines (LUV), alleging that she was unfairly subjected to its policy of requiring large passengers to buy two seats because she is black.Nadine Thompson, president, CEO and co-founder of Warm Spirit Inc. beauty and wellness company in Exeter, sued the airline in federal court in Concord

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Government Questions Obesity ScareThursday, September 02, 2004By Steven MilloyIt is virtually official U.S. government policy that obesity kills 300,000 people every year. But a new analysis by some brave federal researchers exposes this factoid for what it really is — junk science.Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said last March, “Americans need to understand that

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Woman Sues Airline For Humiliation Over Her WeightWoman Sues Airline For Humiliation Over Her WeightPOSTED: 3:10 pm PDT August 30, 2004SPOKANE, Wash. -- An Eastern Washington woman has sued Southwest Airlines, saying company employees humiliated her in front of other airplane passengers by suggesting she was too fat to fit in a single seat.Trina Blake, 26, said a gate agent questioned her

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Mikey Doesn't Like ItBy Sandy Szwarc, R.N., B.S.N., C.C.P. Published 08/21/2003My goodness. I'm amazed by Michael Fumento's reaction to my recent series on Tech Central Station, which he calls an "Oxford English Dictionary-length propaganda feast." If I were to condense it into a Cliff Notes' version, what I said was so simple: We all need to get regular physical activity, eat normally

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A Matter of HealthBy Sandy Szwarc Published 08/11/2003People either loved it or they hated it. Either way, the recent 10-part series on obesity was a success. It got people thinking - I hope more critically -- about the current beliefs surrounding weight and dieting.The series set out to be an empirical, evidence-based, investigation on obesity which would reveal the findings even if they went

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A Simple PlanBy Sandy Szwarc Published 08/08/2003The goal of this series was to encourage all of us to critically question the vernacular precepts about obesity and (weight loss) dieting....and to reveal the facts we never hear. The current war on obesity has caused more harm than good. The simplistic myths and answers it promotes are not supported by the evidence. Obesity is complex and the

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To Do ListBy Sandy Szwarc Published 08/06/2003What separates those of us who are the healthiest from those who aren't is not what we look like, how much we weigh or what our measurements are. It's what we do.Svelte people aren't necessarily healthy just because they match how we think healthy people should look; likewise, fat people aren't necessarily unhealthy just because they don't. -snip-

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Ideal-ismsBy Sandy Szwarc Published 08/04/2003If being overweight is as deadly as we've been told, the evidence should be irrefutable. It's not."The conclusion that obesity is dangerous represents a selective review of the data," concluded David Garner, Ph.D., and Susan Wooley, Ph.D., in "Confronting the Failure of Behavioral and Dietary Treatments for Obesity," published by Clinical

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Where's the Epidemic?By Sandy Szwarc Published 07/30/2003TCS"The war on fat has reached the point where the systematic distortion of the evidence has become the norm, rather than the exception," wrote Paul Campos in the Rocky Mountain News on April 2, 2003. Campos is professor of law at the University of Colorado and author of the upcoming "The Last American Diet."As many have recognized, the

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To Your HealthBy Sandy Szwarc Published 07/28/2003Frances Berg, M.S., wrote in a March/April 1999 Healthy Weight Journal editorial that the then new federal guidelines, labeling over half of Americans overweight and "recommending that millions of already weight-obsessed Americans lose weight, are dangerous in that they focus on weight loss, not health. Instead of improving health, they will

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The War on Fat's CasualtiesBy Sandy Szwarc Published 07/24/2003With all of the pressure to be thin, the onslaught of diet messages finds a ready audience. At any given time, up to 80 million American adults are on a diet.Women and children are the primary victims of this relentless harping. Almost half of all first graders and 90 percent of high school girls are already dieting, even though

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Dying to Be ThinBy Sandy Szwarc Published 07/22/2003TCS"At no time in history have women been so pressured to be thin," wrote Frances Berg, M.S., L.N., in Women Afraid to Eat -- Breaking Free in Today's Weight-Obsessed World (Healthy Weight Network, 2000).Women and girls are bombarded with messages about thinness, ideals of beauty, and ways to lose weight. The average woman sees hundreds of

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The Diet ProblemBy Sandy Szwarc Published 07/18/2003TCSLooking back 40 or more years, the movie stars and bathing beauties we admired were healthy full-figured gals with plenty of jiggle and cellulite. The nation didn't have a "weight problem." The difference between then and now is that "diet" wasn't in our vocabulary and being thin wasn't a cultural obsession.But as dieting has become

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The Skinny on FatBy Sandy Szwarc Published 07/16/2003A host of sinful foods have been demonized as the root of obesity and poor health of American adults and children. Fast food restaurants have been sued, accused of contributing to customers' obesity because their food tastes too good and they tempt us by advertising. Taxes are being proposed on foods deemed fattening or bad for us, namely,

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The Truth About ObesityBy Sandy Szwarc Published 07/14/2003TCSIn the fight against obesity, we're told: 'Being fat is simply a matter of energy balance. It's easy to lose weight, just eat 3,500 calories less than you burn and you'll lose a pound. We've become a fat nation because we're eating more than ever before, and too much fat and junk food, and not moving.'Of course, the real message is

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