US government – the biggest diet pusher

When was the last time anyone heard that in order to lower your cholesterol and reduce your chances of heart disease you need to cut down on calories and fat – especially saturated fat. As you may remember I mentioned in my post about saturated fat that Ancel Keys pioneered this idea with the landmark [...]

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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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In defense of saturated fat

Did you know that the fact that saturated fat is linked with heart disease is actually not a fact at all and this link remains unproven? This ‘fact’ was set up in 1953 by Dr Ancel Keys who compared fat intake and mortality in six countries: United States, Canada, Australia, England, Italy and Japan. What [...]

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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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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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and the comments keep rolling in

Arrgghh. So I finally convinced my best friend/flatmate that dieting was bad (see post). Well kind of. But now I have to battle with our other flatmate. She is even harsher and is not really arguing it from a health viewpoint. She just thinks its plain gross. The thing is in EVERY other respect she [...]

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Fitness as a fat person

So I feel it is time to start exercising. Not to lose weight (obviously) but because I want to be healthy. As we all know exercise does make you healthy no matter what size you are. 
At the peak of my dieting I used to exercise a lot. I remember I used to run for 10km [...]

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Changing peoples opinions on fat

So as I have kept mentioning in my posts I have had issues with both of my flatmates. One of these is my best friend who is a medical doctor. As a consequence he has been taught to believe that being overweight is unhealthy. He argues that if you walk through any heart disease ward [...]

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Dieting: the new religion

In this post I would like to think about how dieting has become the new religion in the west. Michael Pollan mentions this topic in his presentation at google. In this example I will use christianity to make my point. But any other religion could be considered here. I would like to state outright that [...]

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