What Do Fat People Want?(Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!)

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[VRW Conspirator]

 

What Do Fat People Want?

 

WE WANT fat children to grow up safe from ridicule and physical violence. Such hate crimes rob fat children of their self-esteem and their hope for the future. To this end, we want schools, social service agencies, and courts to recognize, and help alleviate, the socially condoned mistreatment of fat children.

WE WANT to be healthy. We also want people to understand that being healthy does not necessarily mean being thin.

WE WANT doctors who focus on our health and well-being, not on weight loss.

WE WANT doctors to stop pushing dangerous treatments: diets, diet pills, liposuction, and weight-loss surgery. As the New England Journal of Medicine said recently, "The cure for obesity [sic] may be worse than the condition."

WE WANT diagnostic equipment that will accommodate us: MRIs, CAT scans, ultrasound machines, some X-ray machines, etc.

WE WANT health insurance companies to stop denying coverage based on weight.

WE WANT surgeons to stop refusing to operate on us unless we lose weight, just because they do not have the skill, the tools, or the technique to work with large bodies. (Ironically, sometimes the only surgery a fat person can obtain is mutilating weight-loss surgery.)

WE WANT the media to stop quoting inaccurate and spurious statistics about fat mortality rates. This practice only reinforces the prejudice we face.

For example, the oft-quoted figure of 300,000 fat-related deaths in America is based on a study (McGinnis and Foege, JAMA, Nov. 10, 1993) that linked these deaths to sedentary lifestyle and poor diet, not to weight!

WE WANT the FDA to test weight-loss drugs thoroughly for safety before approving them for use by millions of consumers who are all-too-eager for a miracle pill, even when it is life-threatening. Beyond that, we question the value or wisdom of seeking medical cures for social problems in the first place.

WE WANT doctors and health professionals to heed the New England Journal of Medicine's January 1, 1998 editorial, "Losing Weight-An Ill-Fated New Year's Resolution," when it says:

"Doctors should do their part to help end discrimination against overweight [sic] people in schools and workplaces. We should also speak out against the public's excessive infatuation with being thin and the extreme, expensive, and potentially dangerous measures taken to attain that goal. Many Americans are sacrificing their appreciation of one of the great pleasure of life--eating--in an attempt to look like our semi-starved celebrities. Countless numbers of our daughters and increasingly many of our sons are suffering immeasurable torment in fruitless weight-loss schemes and scams, and some are losing their lives."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

We invite people of good conscience to join with us in decrying the last acceptable prejudice in our culture--the prejudice against fat people. Help us create a world that celebrates diversity of size!

 

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National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance: (800) 442-1214

NAAFA Feminist Caucus: (510) 836-1153

SF/Bay Area NAAFA chapter: (510) 524-6470

 

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[VRW Conspirator]

Get on your bikes and ride!!!!!!

[finnman69]

Fat people are funny.

[CanisMajor2002]

Stopped reading at the first sentence:

WE WANT fat children to grow up safe from ridicule and physical violence.

Already asking for special treatment?

[.cnI redruM]

A bacon double cheeseburger combo. Supersized!

[biblewonk]

A bacon double cheeseburger combo. Supersized!

And a diet coke.

[manfromlamancha]

"WE WANT to be healthy. We also want people to understand that being healthy does not necessarily mean being thin."

I'm not sure what they mean; how can being obese be healthy??

[theDentist]

WE WANT CHOCOLATE for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

[VRW Conspirator]

Get on your bikes and ride!!!!!!

Down to the local Chinese buffet!

[John Jorsett]

Ahhh, stuff a twinkie in it.

[LisaMalia]

My sister was over 150 lbs. overweight. She said that obesity is the last accepted form of discrimination. I tend to agree.
She had gastric bypass surgery, and is now with 40 lbs. of her goal weight.
If anyone thinks this is the easy way out, look at the stats. 1 in 200 don't make it through the surgery.

[Petronski]

FAT!SO?--the zine for people who don't apologize for their size: (800) OH-FATSO

WTF!?!

[mewzilla]

WE WANT to be healthy. We also want people to understand that being healthy does not necessarily mean being thin.

It certainly doesn't mean being fat.

[steveo]

Get on your bikes and ride!!!!!!

Fat bottomed girls
You make the rocking world go round

[AppyPappy]

If you want to lose weight, don't eat what fat people eat.

[Weimdog]

Start walking!

"Call it the Amish paradox. An exercise science professor has discovered that a pocket of Old Order Amish folks in Ontario, Canada, has stunningly low obesity levels, despite a diet high in fat, calories and refined sugar — exactly the stuff doctors tell us not to eat.

They're at a paltry 4% obesity rate, compared to a whopping 31% in the general U.S. population, which, as we all know, is getting fatter by the minute. This group of Amish manages to keep its overweight levels low despite a diet that includes meat, potatoes, gravy, cakes, pies and eggs. So what's their secret? Exercise, people. Exercise.

For starters, of the 98 Amish pedometer-wearing adults surveyed over a week, men averaged about 18,000 steps a day, women about 14,000. Most Americans do not come anywhere close to that, struggling to get in the recommended 10,000 steps a day."

http://www.latimes.com/la-he-amish12jan12,1,2701481.story

[Billthedrill]

People in Hell want ice water.

[Eris]

Fat people in Hell want milkshakes.

[evets]

We want to be loved! (long time)

[.38sw]

WE WANT doctors who focus on our health and well-being, not on weight loss.

Being significantly overweight is a major factor in adult onset diabetes, high blood pressure, back pain, osteoarthritis. I'd say if the doctor is concerned about a patient's weight, he IS concerned about health and well-being.

[TheBigB]