Anti-fatness keeps fat people on the margins, says Aubrey Gordon
(Life Kit, NPR, Jan. 12, 2023) In her new book You Just Need To Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Aubrey Gordon tackles the biases and myths that she says keep fat people [particularly females] on the margins of society.
(Bart Baker) Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" becomes a PARODY here by brilliant Bart Baker way back in November of 2014. And most of thought she only put the skewers to Tay-Tay "Nazi Barbie" Swift.
(Lardi B) Cardi B has a song, and here's a parody called "WAP" ft. Nychelle that premiered back in 2020 but only came to our attention today, "Wings And Pizza" 🍗🍕 performed by Lardi B and Nychelle. It was written by Lardi B, Nychelle, Cut Down Trees. Audio Engineers: Cut Down Trees and Casper J Coda. Filmed and edited by Cut Down Trees. Directed by Lardi B and Cut Down Trees. Makeup by Sydney Black. Produced by Cut Down Trees.
0:00 Introduction: What would happen if you gave up sugar?
0:10 #1 Your face and midsection will change
0:52 #2 Improves eyes, brain, arteries, and kidneys
4:19 #3 Decreases urination at night
5:00 #4 More energy
6:35 #5 Cravings between meals go away
8:57 #6 Less stiffness, pain, and inflammation
9:57 #7 You'll lose weight
11:32 #8 Better skin
11:50 #9 Improves insulin resistance
Let's talk about what would happen if you gave up sugar for just two weeks.
1. Changes in your face and midsection. Your face would become slimmer, and you would lose weight in your midsection because your liver is releasing fat.
2. Improvements in your eyes, brain, arteries, and kidneys. You'll experience a lot of benefits and potential improvements in these four areas of the body when you cut out sugar.
3. Decreased urination at night. You'll get up less at night to urinate because water follows sugar. Consuming sugar triggers urination, especially at night.
4. More energy: Your body is forced to run on fat fuel instead of sugar fuel. Your body has more calories from stored fat to use as fuel, giving you more energy.
5. Cravings between meals go away: Your cravings and appetite will go away between meals because even though you're not eating, your body is satisfied by your own fat.
6. Less stiffness, pain, and inflammation: These issues can start to improve when you stop consuming sugar, and you may notice less of a need for certain medications.
7. Weight loss: You're going to lose water weight as well as actual fat. Many different health benefits also come with losing weight.
8. Better skin: You may notice improvements in your skin because of a drop in inflammation.
9. Improves insulin resistance
Insulin resistance is at the heart of many health conditions. But when you give up sugar, you can start to improve insulin resistance.
BIO: Dr. Eric Berg DC, age 57, is a chiropractor who specializes in healthy ketosis and intermittent fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan and is the director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices but focuses on health education through social media.
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Body shaming? Meghan Trainor: Fat and proud in "All About That Bass"
Why are we Americans so FAT? TheConversation.com, "Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?"
Fat Happy Budai is not the Buddha
Gyms across the country will be packed in the new year with people sticking, however briefly, to our New Year’s resolution to lose weight.
Most of us do not know that the cards are stacked against us and that weight loss is much more complicated than working out and not eating dessert.
Years into the obesity epidemic, millions of Americans have tried to lose weight, and millions of us have failed to do so long term.
The U.S., and increasingly the world, is in the grip of a real epidemic -- the seriousness of which is lost in our obsession with [failed] diets. One study estimated an additional 65 million obese Americans by 2030, and increased medical costs between US $48 billion to $66 billion a year. More
I'm not fat. I have American thighs. And my gut bacteria (and emotions) make me eat.
Five things you might be surprised affect weight
There's a healthy person in here. Just wait.
People might think battling obesity is down to sheer willpower, but medical research says otherwise.
Here are five potentially surprising factors that can affect our weight, as unearthed by The Truth About Obesity.
1. Gut microbes
Prof. Tim Spector has been tracking their progress over 25 years as part of the Twins Research UK study.
He believes a lot of their weight differences are down to the tiny organisms -- microbes [probiotics, beneficial bacteria] -- that live deep in the gut.
"Every time you eat anything, you're feeding a hundred trillion microbes. You're never dining alone," he says.
A stool sample from each twin revealed Gillian, the thinner of the two, had a very diverse range of microbes, whereas Jackie had very few species living in her gut.
Don't call me "fat"! I'm "big boned."
"The greater the diversity, the skinnier the person. If you're carrying too much weight, your microbes aren't as diverse as they should be," says Prof. Spector, who found the same pattern in a study of 5,000 people.
Having a healthy and varied diet, rich in different sources of fiber, has been shown to create a more diverse range of gut microbes.
Prof. Spector warns most Britons [to say nothing of the SAD Americans or "Standard American Diet people of the USA"] eat only half the fiber they should. Good sources of dietary fiber include:
wholegrain breakfast cereals
fruits, including berries and pears
vegetables, such as broccoli and carrots
beans
pulses
nuts
2. The gene lottery
Why do some people diligently follow diets and exercise regularly but still struggle to see results, while others do very little and don't pile on the pounds?
Scientists at Cambridge University believe 40-70% of the effect on our weight is down to variation in the genes we inherit. "It is a lottery," says Prof. Sadaf Farooqi... More
The historical Buddha was well proportioned, never fat. Before reaching enlightenment he fasted to the point of anorexia, so severe were his austerities. The middle way between fasting and indulging proved to be the way to enlightenment. The body is a vehicle for spirituality not an obstacle.
The obese or Fat Buddha (Budai) is actually a folkloric deity who serves as a symbol of good luck in China. In Japan he is called Hotei or Duncan Royale Hoteiosho where he has been adapted into Santa Claus, having once been a Zen monk who gave out candy to children from a cloth sack.
He is the "Happy "Buddha (actually a bodhisattva striving to be a buddha, or Maitreya the next Buddha-to-be himself) seen in nearly every Chinese restaurant interested in business success. He is no example of health-success.
If "health is wealth," of what use is being rich but morbidly obese? Of course, most of us are fat NOT because of overeating but because of poor eating (too many processed foods, empty calories, carbs that make us hungry and fat at the same time, as Gary Taubes has explained so well).
Stress and hormonal disruptions also add to our tragic situation -- living in the Realm of Hungry Ghosts starving as we grow fatter and fatter, eating more only to feel hungrier. The best place to find fat, unhealthy Americans is wherever people eat along federal guidelines. Who eats the "Four Food Groups" exclusively according to the old Food Pyramid? People on Indian reservations, federal prisoners, overweight kids in public schools...
Hormone helps obese shed weight RawStory.com An appetite-curbing hormone found in the gut may help overweight and obese people shed weight, lower blood pressure, and reduce cholesterol levels, according to a study released [Jan. 11, 2012].
Known as glucagon-like peptide-1, or GLP-1, the hormone is naturally secreted from the intestine when we eat.
Recently, doctors have begun to use GLP-1 to treat patients with Type 2 diabetes due to the molecule’s ability to regulate sugar levels in the blood.
But they also noticed that the hormone appeared to make patients less hungry, raising the question of whether it could work as a treatment for obesity.
A team of researchers led by Tina Vilsboll of the University of Copenhagen designed a study to find out. Reviewing medical literature, they analyzed the results of 25 clinical trials involving over 6,000 patients who had been given GLP-1. More
Wisdom Quarterly (reconstructed and reposted after Blogspot meltdown) "Big Fat Happy Buddha" is not a buddha at all. He is Hotei, a Japanese Zen "Santa Claus" (amuletjewel.com).
He sits at the doorway of almost every Chinese restaurant in America. Fat Buddha, Fat Happy Buddha, or Laughing Buddha is known as Hotei in Japan and Pu-Tai in China. He's good luck, representing the ideals of health, wealth, happiness, prosperity, and longevity. He demonstrates the Buddhist notions of the good life attainable in this world.
Laughing Buddha is modeled on a real historical figure: There was once an obese wandering Zen Buddhist monk. His big white belly was often uncovered as he wandered about carrying a sack of candy, which he was known to hand out to children on the street.
Some said he was an incarnation of Maitreya Buddha, which would make him a bodhisattva (a buddha-to-be) not a buddha. For centuries, Buddhist notions of happiness have been based on self-mastery, a happy demeanor, purposeful endeavor, a deep commitment to the welfare of others, and enlightened awareness.
As a result, today his durable hemp sack is interpreted as filled with gold, happiness, health, and other aspects of abundance. It almost makes obesity alluring. Of course, it's just figurative. Santa's jolly disposition is well loved but terrible for the Claus family.
The Inanity of [saying it's] Overeating Gary Taubes' new book is called Why Do We Get Fat: What To Do About It. The book concentrates more on the why because once we understand why we get fat, the what to do about it part is pretty obvious.
The problem is that the conventional wisdom on why we get fat is almost incomprehensibly naïve and wrong-headed. It's bad science about obesity and weight regulation.
His goals in writing the book, as explained in the author’s letter, are to push the issue on the nonsensical notion that we get fat because of overeating and sedentary behavior.
He distills and extends some of the arguments from his previous book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, into a book that can easily be read on an airplane on any flight covering more than one time zone.
In his blog he asks questions and provides answers. Over the past decade, he has read more than a century’s worth of literature on obesity and nutrition and chronic disease. And it has consistently amazed him that researchers, learned commentators, un-learned commentators, physicians, and public health authorities accept some of the common but misguided ideas about important these subjects.
Many seem to give no conscious thought whatsoever or fail to ask the kinds of questions that a reasonable junior high school student might ask if given the opportunity.
REVIEW: Taubes' book is an eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from an acclaimed science writer. His previousNew York Times' bestseller argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates -- not fats, and not simply excess calories -- has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today. Michael Pollan heralded it as “a vitally important book, destined to change the way we think about food.” More
(Fresh Air, NPR) In an essay published last November in Canada's Maisonneuve journal, physician Kevin Patterson described his experiences working as an internist-intensivist at the Canadian Combat Surgical Hospital in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
One detail he noticed: The Afghan soldiers, police, and civilians he treated in Kandahar had radically different bodies from those of the Canadians he took care of back home.
"Typical Afghan civilians and soldiers would have been 140 pounds or so as adults. And when we operated on them, what we were aware of was the absence of any fat or any adipose tissue underneath the skin," Patterson says.
"Of course, when we operated on Canadians or Americans or Europeans, what was normal was to have most of the organs encased in fat. It had a visceral potency to it when you could see it directly there."
In a conversation on Fresh Air, Patterson tells Terry Gross that the effects of urbanization are making people everywhere in the world both fatter and sicker. More
A cow grazes in front of wind turbines on the day of the inauguration of a new $550 million wind farm project in La Ventosa, Mexico, located on the narrow isthmus between the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean, 1/22/09. Mexico's President Felipe Calderon inaugurated one of the world's largest wind farm projects as the nation looks for alternative energy, in part to compensate for falling oil production (AP Photo/Luis Cruz Hernandez).
Researchers in the UK say cows with names make 3.4 percent more milk in a year than cows that just feel, well, like cows.
There seems to be more than just names involved, however.
The study, involving 516 dairy farmers and published online Tuesday by the journal Anthrozoos, found that "on farms where each cow was called by her name the overall milk yield was higher than on farms where the cattle were herded as a group," write researchers Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University. More>>
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