I know my readers have already heard about this elsewhere, but in case anyone new steps in today, Sandy Szwarc has the latest in her series of articles dismantling the fat myth up. A great job, as always, exposing the hideously bad science at play in the crusade against fat people. Really, go read it. But here is the short version of the "science" behind the anti-fat movement.
Fat people who die, die because they are fat. That makes science easy.
And that's not even an oversimplification. Read it, and read her other articles...
The Truth About Obesity
The Skinny on Fat
The Diet Problem
Dying to be Thin
The War on Fat's Casualties
To Your Health
Where's the Epidemic?
Ideal-isms
To Do List
A Simple Plan
A Matter of Health
Mikey Doesn't Like It
Killing Turkeys Causes Winter
Getting Excersised about Excersise
Shape Up America
The Emperor's New Crisis
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