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Can Anyone Explain the “Booty Perfume” Joke to Me?

2012-02-05T13:42:30-05:00

There’s a parody advertisement on the front of this site for “Booty Perfume” (i.e. “smells like ass?”) I don’t quite get the joke. Is it calling out people who think all fat women are sleazy or promiscuous? It is a call for women to reject any loser who treats them like a whore? Is it making fun of the wannabe ghetto/gangsta/player types (of all races) who treat women like garbage, and go around with childish, illiterate talk about “booty calls” and other misogynist vulgarities? Very, very weird… What exactly is the joke, here? Thx.

Susan Boyle’s Fabulous Success on Britain’s Got Talent

2009-04-16T10:47:49-05:00

If you haven’t seen this incredible video yet of Susan Boyle shocking the world on Britain’s Got Talent, you should watch it.

Though I knew what to expect (this is a hot topic right now), I was truly stunned. That this woman could have been thought of as a failure and a joke before she began singing is a shame. Few doubt that those prejudices result from her physical appearance. She was heavyset and didn’t look like a model. Young girls in the audience were laughing at her, and as she mentioned in the lead-up to her singing, she’d never been kissed.

But boy did she have a good attitude, and wow were those some pipes on her. That was incredible, and it was wonderful listening to the judges come clean about their unwarranted skepticism - skepticism purely based on her appearance.

What do you think about this video and Susan Boyle’s experience?

Bragging

2009-09-22T11:42:33-05:00

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3463/3941782912_05e6456d5e.jpg

These are two photos I entered into the Latah County Fair this weekend. Since I sell some of my photos thru my Zazzle shop I entered in the professional class. So here I was, up against real professionals with real cameras (I use a Nikon Coolpix P3, essentially a point and shoot with some options). I was figuring I would get the white “thanks for entering” ribbon, maybe a red, but I wasn’t expecting BLUE!!!!

SQQUUUUEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

Got positive comments on both, the snow one (taken Jan 2008 after our really big snow and we finally were able to get out from being snowed in) the comment was “WOW! Great!” so needless to say, I am a seriously happy camper. I guess I really do take good pictures :dance:

No Obesity Link to Junk Food in Schools

2012-01-25T06:31:08-05:00

Nutrition: No Obesity Link to Junk Food in Schools

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR

Published: January 23, 2012

In the fight against childhood obesity (http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/symptoms/morbid-obesity/overview.html?inline=nyt-classifier), communities all over the country are banning the sale of sweets and salty snacks in public schools. But a new study suggests that the strategy may be ineffective.

Researchers at Pennsylvania State University tracked the body mass
indexes of 19,450 students from fifth through eighth grade. In fifth
grade, 59 percent of the children attended a school where candy, snacks
or sugar-sweetened beverages were sold. By eighth grade, 86 percent did so.

The researchers compared children’s weight in schools where junk food
was sold and in schools where it was banned. The scientists also
evaluated eighth graders who moved into schools that sold junk food with
those who did not, and children who never attended a school that sold
snacks with those who did. And they compared children who always
attended schools with snacks with those who moved out of such schools.

No matter how the researchers looked at the data, they could find no
correlation at all between obesity and attending a school where sweets
and salty snacks were available
<http://soe.sagepub.com/content/85/1/23.abstract>.

“Food preferences are established early in life,” said Jennifer Van
Hook, the lead author and a professor of sociology and demography at
Penn State. “This problem of childhood obesity cannot be placed solely
in the hands of schools.”

The study appeared in the January issue of the journal Sociology of
Education.

A version of this article appeared in print on January 24,
2012, on page D6 of the New York edition with the headline:
Nutrition: No Obesity Link to Junk Food in Schools.

LOST Question—Should I bother?

2012-01-24T13:14:02-05:00

<<<LOST spoilers if you’ve not seen the first two seasons>>>

So, I got hooked on watching lost online. (I was too busy to get into the series when it was on TV.) I’ve really been enjoying the show, but after watching the “Dave” episode in Season 2, I feel like I’ve been sucker punched. Libby is a DISGUSTING, CONDESCENDING, and just plain WRONG person, but she’s portrayed with the soft music as if she’s “supportive” instead of abusive. And, of course, the FatGuy has an eating disorder. It’s not a lifetime of dieting and his genes and the psych drugs and his genes that are why he’s fat—no, ABC has to push the HATE-LIE that fatness is abnormal and has something to do with gluttony.

Dammit dammit dammit dammit dammit.

I’m a little hopeful, since they show the Diet Pusher HateQueen (Libby) as a total wreck in the mental hospital. Do they even touch on the truths of fatness at any further point in the series? Do they keep pushing same-old fat = gluttony BS from now on? Hurley—like ALL fat people—stays fat, but do they keep implying it’s a “choice” or a “failure?” Does Hurley—any anyone else—ever accept Hurley as he is instead of pushing the @)$#%#4 “change” hatred?

In other words, does the series ever get a clue, or should I just stop watching it? I thought it was “original,” but this is just the same old ____.

Spiked Calls Shenanigans on Obesity Timebomb in Children

2011-12-23T09:24:31-05:00

I love Spiked. They are a renegade news source that doesn’t listen to the common rhetoric and thinks critically about many of the issues. One issue they consistently call shenanigans on is the Obesity Timebomb.

Yes, there are more fat kids than before, they acknowledge, but so what? Show us why that’s so horrible, they cry.

I just really appreciate it when the news gets something right.

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/11903/

Fitness Trainer too “Overweight” for Weight Watchers

2010-08-31T17:40:26-05:00

Yes, you read that right. A National Trainer has been rejected for a job with Weight Watchers because she’s not thin enough. But, really? She’s not healthy enough and fit enough!? She’s a National Trainer. I can’t say I’m ever amazed at anything Weight Watchers does, but this is practically silly. Read more for yourself and let me know your thoughts:

http://www.610wiod.com/cc-common/seasonal/health/sub.html?feed=104671&article=7537134

Do men like bigger women?

2009-04-11T16:02:53-05:00

My friend and I were debating this the other day. We were talking about the preferences of men when it comes to size of women. (haha, the slogan of this site is Size doesn’t matter and now that just gained a whole new context in my head but I won’t go down this road. sorry)

So there are a lot of interesting portrayals in the media about men who prefer the chubby healthy mama type of woman. I always thought that was really awesome. But is that the case in real life? Movies also mostly show thin women getting the star of the show. What kinds of conceptions do men have about size when choosing their female partners? Is there a difference between what size female they choose for short and long term? My friend said that evolutionarily men are attracted to women with wider hips because that means an easier childbirth. Is that even true? If yes, does that mean that men look for wives who are a healthier size that their short-term girlfriends? Does our body size even matter? I guess so, but does it matter from the perspective of the man or does it matter how the size of a woman impact her self-confidence and thus impacts her attractiveness to men?

So many questions….I just know that sometimes when I go to a party the way I feel about my size impacts my self-confidence. I wish this was not the case, but it is. I find that men are more likely to talk to me when I feel less fat. But that’s the tricky part. Is it that I am less fat or that I FEEL less fat that makes me more attractive?

Heart Health is NOT about weight/size but about Body Movement

2011-12-07T11:52:50-05:00

Loving this one. I just read the following:

“A pretty large study at University of South Carolina looked at 14,000 white, middle class men (of course) and compared risk of cardiovascular disease and early death from all causes. They found a strong reduction in heart disease and death with increased treadmill performance, but no change with reduced BMI.

Study author Duck-chul Lee, PhD, said, ““Fitness loss with age is associated with a higher risk of all-cause and CVD [cardiovascular disease] deaths, after controlling for weight change. However, weight, BMI or even percent body fat change were not associated with death risk.” Dr. Lee continued.“We may need to focus more on maintaining or improving fitness rather than worrying too much about weight gain—at least in terms of public health.”

Pretty nice piece of evidence for HAES.”

I would certainly say so!

Want to learn more about the study. Check out the Huffington Post piece: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/diet-exercises-risk-of-death_n_1129959.html?ref=mostpopular

A Great Interview with Linda Bacon and answers to many common “fat is bad” questions

2011-10-30T09:32:28-05:00

This was a great article with Linda Bacon, PhD. She was asked many of the common questions we all get when trying to defend Health at Every Size and the acceptability of size diversity. She answered each of them adeptly and intelligently and cited research for our reference to defend the case for loving our bodies and pursuing health - not weight loss.

http://www.more.com/weight-loss-diet-myth