{"id":4887,"date":"2008-10-06T10:10:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/06\/good-new-york-times-piece-on-fat-acceptance\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:10:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:30:33","slug":"good-new-york-times-piece-on-fat-acceptance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4887","title":{"rendered":"Good New York Times Piece on Fat Acceptance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nice to see this short piece in the Sunday Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This is a core argument of fat acceptance: that it\u2019s possible to be healthy no matter how fat you are and that weight loss as a goal is futile, unnecessary and counterproductive \u2014 and that fatness is nobody\u2019s business but your own.<\/p>\n

Many fat-acceptance activists prefer a new approach to dieting that focuses on nutrition, exercise and body image. A new book out this fall, \u201cHealth at Every Size,\u201d by Linda Bacon, a nutritionist and physiologist at the University of California at Davis, outlines this approach, which is less about dieting than a lifestyle change that emphasizes \u201cintuitive eating\u201d: listening to hunger signals, eating when you\u2019re hungry, choosing nutritious food over junk. It encourages exercise, but for its emotional and physical benefits, not as a way to lose weight. It advocates tossing out the bathroom scale and loving your body no matter what it weighs. […]<\/p>\n

Several studies suggest that if the aim is getting healthier rather than slimmer, then in the long run the \u201cHealth at Every Size\u201d approach works better than dieting. In 2005, Bacon led the only randomized control trial to date that tested this hypothesis physiologically. She randomly assigned half of the 78 subjects, all women, to a \u201cHealth at Every Size\u201d group; while they lost no weight, their healthier behavior led to lower blood-pressure and cholesterol levels, which stayed low even two years later. In the weight-loss group, more than 40 percent dropped out before the six-month low-calorie diet ended, and at the two-year follow-up, the average dieter had regained all her lost weight, and the only measurement that dropped was one for self-esteem.<\/p>\n

Scientists who study obesity at the cellular level say genetics determines people\u2019s natural weight range, right down to the type and amount of food they crave, how much they move and where they accumulate fat. Asking how someone got to be so fat is as meaningless as asking how he got to be so tall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another thing I liked about this piece: the illustration that went with it was not <\/em>a photo of headless fatties<\/a>. What next, an article about comics that doesn’t use “Pow! Bam!” in the headline? (Is that even legal?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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