Comments on OBESITY PANACEA: Get fat, live longer???

Gluttony is good for health care profits in the sh...

2010-02-18T03:09:22.722-05:00

Gluttony is good for health care profits in the short term but in the long term fatlings die sooner so they cost health care less than normal people.

We at Bigger Fatter Blog aka the new fat acceptance would like to issue the following statement from our fat acceptance blog.

This is the next phase in fat acceptance. The days of justifying our fatness by lying and saying we have a mysterious genetic or metabolic disorder are over. We now freely admit to and embrace what the fat haters would call gluttony. We fatlings are no longer apologists for our size nor our greedy gluttony. We are fat because we eat huge amounts of food and we like it. If you don't like it get used to it because fat people are now the overwhelming majority

I think she's a hack. However, I may be biase...

2009-11-10T02:49:45.818-05:00

I think she's a hack. However, I may be biased, I've never met a libertarian that I've liked.

I would like to chime in in defense of Sandy Swzar...

2009-09-02T02:20:59.535-04:00

I would like to chime in in defense of Sandy Swzarc's blog. Yes sometimes she gets a little carried away and she is very libertarian in her thinking. But her analyses of published articles are often extremely astute and interesting, and she has a gift for pointing out internal flaws and contradictions. I feel her work is very valuable, and of course a reader can always go read the article for himself/herself and see if what she says is accurate. She has long detailed and carefully thought out analyses. The attack on her on the denialism blog is excessive and not well-motivated. She is not just some purveyor of nonsense, far from it, and she should not be pigeonholed into a blanket "denialist" category. What she says should be taken seriously.

I checked out what was said about junkfoodscience ...

2009-08-01T23:28:16.098-04:00

I checked out what was said about junkfoodscience blog from your link, and I don't think he makes his case. Perhaps he is correct in asserting that fat people are being kept alive longer due to treatment for hypertension, high blood sugar, etc., but I don't think the research demonstrates that at all. In fact, many overweight people are not on various meds, or stop taking them. Also, Ms. Szwarc cites studies that account for lower BMIs being due to illness, and still the thinnest die earlier.

Nor does the blogger addresss many of the other points Ms. Szwarc makes concerning the hazards and failures of bariatric surgery.

He is also completely wrong when he states that she is anti-exercise, when in fact she is very pro-exercise and pro-fitness for health.

I would also direct you to Dr. Nortin Hadler, MD, and his articles at abcnews.com and his books, Worried Sick and The Last Well Person.

Much of what passes for fact today is often myth or the result of prejudice. It is easier to say, "You're unhealthy." than to say, "I don't like the way you look."

Peter and I have been discussing the Junkfood Scie...

2009-08-01T14:49:29.005-04:00

Peter and I have been discussing the Junkfood Science website quite a bit this morning, and I think we'll come back to it in the future. In the meantime, here is a very good analysis of Junkfood Science from the Denialism Blog on ScienceBlogs.com.

@ Anonymous, Thanks for the link, I'll be sur...

2009-08-01T11:06:11.641-04:00

@ Anonymous,

Thanks for the link, I'll be sure to check it out!

@ Dr Sharma,

Thanks for the kind words! Your own writings on this topic have thoroughly influenced the way I think about BMI. Thanks as well for the link.

Well said! There simply is no simple way to look a...

2009-08-01T02:07:49.517-04:00

Well said! There simply is no simple way to look at this issue (sure you've seen my own extensive discussions of this topic).

BTW regarding body-image and self esteem check out the posts on http://dr-eyecandy.blogspot.com/

Keep writing!

a

On the other hand.... The Figure Flaw Paradox - D...

2009-07-31T23:59:17.640-04:00

On the other hand....

The Figure Flaw Paradox - Does it Really Matter How Your Body Measures Up?

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2009/06/figure-flaw-paradox-does-it-really.html

@ Charlotte & Darya, Glad to hear that you en...

2009-07-31T20:13:13.540-04:00

@ Charlotte & Darya,

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the article, as well as the new layout! Peter's hard work on the layout has really paid off.

Travis

Well done!!! Marked this to share with my readers....

2009-07-31T18:11:46.475-04:00

Well done!!! Marked this to share with my readers. And the site is soooo much easier to read. Thanks!!

I like the redesign - much easier on the eye. Tha...

2009-07-31T17:02:17.270-04:00

I like the redesign - much easier on the eye.

Thanks for the write-up - the 'overweight people live longer' articles crop up in the papers pretty regularly, and it's nice to get a more sensible look at the research.