{"id":3282,"date":"2007-03-28T17:31:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T00:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/28\/joy-nashs-a-fat-rant\/"},"modified":"2007-03-28T17:31:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T00:31:28","slug":"joy-nashs-a-fat-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3282","title":{"rendered":"Joy Nash's "A Fat Rant""},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s on YouTube<\/a>, and it’s awesome.<\/p>\n

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Curtsy: Cool Beans<\/a>. As Bean says, Joy Nash, I love you!<\/p>\n

Also, check out the term paper on “Fat and Oppression”<\/a> she wrote a few years ago. There’s some especially interesting stuff in light of the discussions of “oppression” we’ve been having here recently. And also this factoid:<\/p>\n

FAT!SO?<\/i> author, Wann, cites a study reported in the International Journal of Obesity <\/i>stating that “a whopping 95 percent of the people who lose weight on diets gain back every pound within three years\u2026 Other researchers have found failure rates for diets as high as 98 percent.”  <\/span>But what’s really astonishing is that, as Poulton explains, “we blame the 95-98 percent failure rate of diets on dieters instead of applying basic cause-and-effect logic” (84). Success is practically a freak occurrence, and yet we still see dieting as a plausible option for losing weight and “changing lives.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s on YouTube, and it’s awesome. Curtsy: Cool Beans. As Bean says, Joy Nash, I love you! Also, check out the term paper on “Fat and Oppression” she wrote a few years ago. There’s some especially interesting stuff in light … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-fat-and-more-fat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}