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You are FAT!

Last week in my abnormal psychology class we started up the chapter on eating disorders. Today we wen't over Bulimia and Obesity. Obesity is not regarded as an eating disorder yet but it's going under consideration. Our …
A Study: Obese People Are Less Likely to Commit Suicide

SmilingThoughts@Xanga sent in a post referencing a study that found out that obese people are less likely to commit suicide. Here is more on that study. ABC News reported that a study conducted at the Harvard School of…
A "Fat Tax" May Increase Obese People's Healthcare Costs

Do you agree that obese people should have to pay more for their health insurance?
The Phenomenom of Fat T.V.

Because I am an author and have worked with weight management, a reporter recently asked my opinion on the current trend of T.V. shows featuring plus-sized people, such as "The Biggest Loser" and "More to Love." One que…
Had Gastric Bypass and Still "Failed"

I wanted to touch base on a very sensitive subject that I've not heard anyone talk about here. I had the gastric bypass (malabsorption surgery). Many hold a negative opinion of it as "cheating" or "a quick fix" for th…
Health Insurance Makes People Fat? FOX Thinks So

I just saw this on FOX. Some people did a study which determined that, among Americans who own health insurance right now, they are fatter than people who don't. I don't remember who did the study, it's probably e…
Does Being Overweight Set Up a Child for Abuse?

(Image unavailable to do extreme prejudice. I searched for an hour and couldn't find any unoffensive pictures to appropriately illustrate this story. Which is a story in and of itself.) In one of the saddest examples th…
Confessions of a Fat Girl

Ok, so I'm not the skinniest girl on the planet. I get that. In December I made a goal to lose weight because I felt I would be happier that way. I weighed 225 at the beginning of January (the heaviest I’ve ever weigh…
Do Skinny People Sell More Chocolate?

Once upon a time in a rainy kingdom far, far away on Ye West Coast, I was a Godiva girl. No, not the riding-a-horse-naked-through-town kind (can you imagine the chafing?) but the chocolate-pimping kind. My day job wa…
Mississippi is The Fattest State For 3rd Straight Year!

Mississippi has claimed the title of fattest state for the third consecutive year, while Colorado repeats as the leanest according to a new analysis by CalorieLab, Inc.West Virginia and Alabama, where I am now eating…