We are not robots

I was reading this post over at Babble, and I think one of the things briefly discussed their deserves to be looked at more closely. She talks about how fat people have body hate days, but thin people also have these days, and it was this comment that got me thinking. Everybody has body hate [...]

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Food limits?

Shit! As all our allies seem to head to the left side of the political spectrum we have gone against the grain and have gone right. It was a very sad moment, especially when our now ex prime minister gave her conciliation speech. She did a good job as our prime minister for 9 years [...]

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Do calories make us fat?

 
If overeating was the cause of obesity then by reducing the number of calories you eat would result in weight loss. This of course is obvious to just about everyone – the media, public, politicians, scientists, clinicians etc. But what if it is wrong? It is well known, much to the medical communities frustration, that only [...]

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Thank you Big Fat Delicious

Bigfatdelicious made an extremely interesting point in the last post and so I need to revise my thinking a bit. Please bare with me Im thinking out loud here. This is what I know. 
1. Reducing calories makes me hungry and obessive.
2. Eating whatever I want makes me feel unhealthy and hungry
3. There is nothing wrong with [...]

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Does your brain tell you your bigger than you are?

On perusing the internet I came across an interesting article which I think has huge implications for our body image and perception of ourselves.  I was reading about the parietal lobe, which is a lobe in the brain that is responsible for integrating sensory information and amongst other things is where your sense of body [...]

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People are saying NO to diets

While I was reading big fat deal they had a wonderful blog posted from the New York Times on the Slow Food movement. Here are some exciting and interesting excerpts that are both encouraging and exciting. 
The market research firm NPD Group gets a glimpse of national eating habits through the food diaries it has collected [...]

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Why we REALLY overeat

This was the title on a mag in the supermarket called ‘healthy choice’. I personally am SO GLAD that they have finally figured it out. I mean to say why we REALLY overeat must mean that they have figured it out in contrast to every single other study, article and news report ever done. Well [...]

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What part of fat acceptance don’t you understand!!!

I have noticed that more and more lately I find myself under marketing attack by diet websites, nutrition websites and supplement websites. Ironically this is despite a blog I wrote called ‘why we should eat real foods and not supplements‘. But what really gets me is the promise of weight loss from these websites.  I am [...]

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What is my sick fascination with weight loss TV shows

So I think I am like one of these people that drives by car accidents and gets some sick pleasure by looking. Because every tuesday night there is this weight loss TV show called Down Size Me. Usual story – put them on a highly restrictive diet (they lose about 3kg a week) with extremely [...]

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If your fat don’t come to New Zealand

Well thought that the title might catch your eye. But what it really should say is if your too fat you won’t be able to come to NZ. I have read around the internet lately the injustices and prejudice against groups of fat people. I remember from a year ago when I found out that [...]

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