Perhaps the FDA jumped the gun a little bit when it approved the miracle fat drug Orlistat (aka Alli and Xenical) for over the counter. Seems to have a perky liver problem. "FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that it is reviewing new safety information regarding reports of liver-related adverse events in patients taking orlistat." The FDA isn't actually telling people not to take it, just saying a small amount of users might get liver failure. Let's say this again "Diet drugs have never been proven to be effective in the long run." And let's add that some of them are dangerous.
Newsweek has a series of stories on Fat discrimination. While the series of articles isn't completely fat positive, it's a step in the right direction. A fat slide show on fat characters in movies/tv. As you can see most characters are not positive. A reporter who was called a skinny fat person (i.e. a skinny person who has the potential to have "fat diseases". A fat person who has the potential to have skinny diseases often finds it is blamed on fat) sits on the fence. But she writes a better article discussing discrimination. The better article criticizes CDC leanworks who really feel that it is necessary to make a fat person lose their job for their own damn good.
Finally a study *proves* we are stupid. Because 5 fat men and 9 fat women have less brain tissue than the thin people in the study. The study does not include the subject's history of dieting.
Ohhh, liver problems? Is that all??? At least it doesn't cause something really bad like ugliness. It is obviously worth the risk not to be fat ;)
Posted by: Catherine Wood Hill | August 31, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Well, as long as the study proves what they want, I guess it's ok to publish it. Right? *rolls eyes*
Sincerely, Sarah. A fat chick in college. lol. With an A average.
Posted by: Sarah R | September 01, 2009 at 11:19 AM
The study that shows reduced brain tissue (ie. stupid fat people)was done on people 70 years old or older. And in spite of doctors continually telling us we could live forever if ONLY we weren't so damn fat, people who are 70 yrs old commonly experience brain deterioration. It's called aging - it happens.
Could it possibly be that they were fat because they had brain loss? Why in the hell would you assume one and not the other?
Why would you assume any correlation at all?
Posted by: Olivia Dorr | September 03, 2009 at 06:55 PM
Well the correlation was there, but as my Psych 101 teacher drilled into our minds over and over and over again, "correlation is not causality."
Posted by: Maryjane Heyer | September 07, 2009 at 10:47 PM