get fat. That doesn't mean it's YOUR fault. Just another
sacrifice by one who cares.
Posted on 01/23/2008 5:22:10 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
For years, health experts have been warning that Americans are too fat, that we exercise too little and eat too much, that our health is in jeopardy.
Blogs written by fat people — and it’s fine to use the word, they say — have multiplied in recent months, filling a virtual soapbox known as the fatosphere, where bloggers calling for fat acceptance challenge just about everything conventional medical wisdom has to say about obesity.
Smart, sassy and irreverent, bloggers with names like Big Fat Deal, FatChicksRule and Fatgrrl (“Now with 50 percent more fat!”) buck anti-obesity sentiment. They celebrate their full figures and call on readers to accept their bodies, quit dieting and get on with life.
The message from the fatosphere is not just that big is beautiful. Many of the bloggers dismiss the “obesity epidemic” as hysteria. They argue that Americans are not that much larger than they used to be and that being fat in and of itself is not necessarily bad for you.
And they reject a core belief that many Americans, including overweight ones, hold dear: that all a fat person needs to do to be thin is exercise more and eat less.
“One of the first obstacles to fat acceptance is breaking down the question of whether being fat is a choice,” Kate Harding, founder of the blog Shapely Prose, said in an interview. “No fat acceptance advocate is saying you should sit around and wildly overeat. What we’re saying is that exercise and a balanced diet do not make everyone thin.”
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Since human life expectancy is in the 70s anyway, this is really no big surprise that most people check out around then, regardless of how fat they are. We all have to die from something.
Shaq is a big man anyway, not just in height. He must weigh in the 300s already, and definitely will get fatter after he retires. I read somewhere that the average life expectancy of NFL football players is 56.
Just checked it. Shaq is 7’2 and weighs 325.
And I say this as a 6'7" 290lb 42 year-old who needs to lose 90 lbs before I decide on knee replacement.
Most NFL players let themselves go after they stopped playing. But some managed to thin down afterwards, and it’s hard to believe when you see them that they once were linemen in the NFL.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie Pumping Iron with Arnold from 1977. It shows what some of those guys look like today. A lot of them look really lumpy and flabby. Arnold himself looks pretty soft around the middle.
“I’m sure you didn’t bother to read the JAMA study, so I did it for you. Here is the money paragraph”
I didn’t pretend I had read the JAMA study. Someone asked me were I got the info about underweight being more likely to die than overweight, so I gave him the info.
Fatosphere - home of the milky way.
What’s with the 3rd pic, did she get a no-smudge lipstick contract? :)
Yo! Damn straight!
What do you call a 300 lb. woman at the bar with a condom in her purse?
1/2 ton pick-up with a bed liner...
“Skinny girls got to pay.”
LOL, the anti-Quagmire.
Put a quarter in the juke
Boogie til you puke!
-RootBoySlim.
The Romans had it right. Ingest and Vomit. Repeat as necessary.
Perhaps the answer is to have vomitoriums and make puking publicly acceptable.
These Fat Fetishishst need to accept the fact that fat is just plain ugly to the non-fetish super majority of the planet.
Did you read some of the blog comments? They’re pretty funny.
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