Thursday, March 04, 2004
Fat Acceptance
An article in the Orlando Sentinel online (above linked) posted March 2, 2004, states:
The newspaper ad inviting fat people to learn about El Camino Hospital's new weight-loss surgery program held out the opportunity to be not just a thinner person, but a better one.
"It's not what you have to lose," the Mountain View, Calif., hospital ad said. "It's what you have to gain. Pride. Dignity. And Better Health."
I did not realize the degree to which the "Fat Acceptance" movement has grown. More surprising still is the strength of the resistance to bariatric surgery.
Against this trend stands a handful of organizations such as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination, and the International Society for Size Acceptance.
An article in the Orlando Sentinel online (above linked) posted March 2, 2004, states:
The newspaper ad inviting fat people to learn about El Camino Hospital's new weight-loss surgery program held out the opportunity to be not just a thinner person, but a better one.
"It's not what you have to lose," the Mountain View, Calif., hospital ad said. "It's what you have to gain. Pride. Dignity. And Better Health."
I did not realize the degree to which the "Fat Acceptance" movement has grown. More surprising still is the strength of the resistance to bariatric surgery.
Against this trend stands a handful of organizations such as the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination, and the International Society for Size Acceptance.
Wednesday, March 03, 2004
The Onion: New Nietzschean Diet Lets You Eat Whatever You Fear Most
Fat Is Dead, proclaims the ambitious title of the dense, aphoristic nutrition plan, which was written by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 1880s and unearthed three years ago. After reaching bestseller lists in Europe, the book was translated into English by R.J. Hollingdale and published by Avon last month.
Fat Is Dead, proclaims the ambitious title of the dense, aphoristic nutrition plan, which was written by Friedrich Nietzsche in the late 1880s and unearthed three years ago. After reaching bestseller lists in Europe, the book was translated into English by R.J. Hollingdale and published by Avon last month.
