Problem Solved

"Nickelodeon is joining the fight against childhood obesity by encouraging kids to turn off the TV."

Look at the fashions

" But over the past decade, people have grown bigger and bigger - and suddenly it seems more acceptable than before..."

"As bigger becomes more acceptable (look at the fashions available now for fat women) then people will continue to get fatter and fatter..."

-Sally Ann Voak, Professional Diet Promoter

The era of fat militancy

"This ever-expanding national girth is a reflection of our over-tolerant attitude to fatness. It is a much more comfortable social experience to be fat in the UK or the US than it is in Europe. Call it body fascism if you like, but in Europe excessive weight gain, much like excessive drinking, is socially disapproved of.

In the UK, on the other hand, being fat is so common as to be acceptable, even expected. Indeed we live in the era of fat militancy, borrowed from the US, where clothes shops catering for teenagers are taken to task for not stocking previously unheard-of sizes upwards of extra large, and where the design of everything from toilet seats to bus aisles is rapidly being scaled up to cater for greatly enlarged dimensions."

-Joanna Blythman

Presidential Priorities

"The next president must commit to fighting America's obesity problem and possess the experience to win the fight,"

Bill Richardson, Democratic Candidate for President

"Symphonies for Flutes"

“The body is the dancer’s instrument.” Limiting dance to a body type “is like writing symphonies for flutes. . . . We all know in the outside world, fat is not considered positive, but this will arm you against the rest of the world. We need this haven.”

-Marina Wolf Ahmad, director and founder of Big Moves

Everything old is new again

Shame on me for ever thinking anything would change.