Comments on: My Concerns About Fat Acceptance

By: Drew Jacob

Drew Jacob — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:50:04 +0000

Adelaide, that depends on what the book is about. Please email me at drew@roguepriest.net and let’s discuss.

By: Bakery adelaide

Bakery adelaide — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:49:16 +0000

Wow i am really impressed by your article, i was wondering may i use your article in my upcoming book, by your kind permission??

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By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:16:13 +0000

I’m sorry, but I don’t think it’s logical to say people don’t choose to be fat and then make a CHOICE to accept it. With the exception of people with illnesses and thyroid problems and whatnot, you can lose weight if you choose. Will you be a size 4? Maybe not, but to constantly make excuses for people is only hurting them more. The fact of the matter is, food corporations are poisoning us with their products and counting on us to make the cheaper, more convenient, and tastiest (aka salt/sugar/fat/msg) CHOICES… And we should refuse to accept that. That’s what they want…. So we can ignore ouraddiction and keep lining their pockets.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:31:01 +0000

WI agree that it is great to make ppl feel good about themselves and nott judge everyone based on the same standard of beauty. But beauty/attractiveness and health/fitness are two seperate issues.
America is ADDICTED to food. Not just to food… But to unhealthy poisonous food that makes it so that for the first time in years, kids today have a SHORTER LIFE EXPECTANCY than their parents. I refuse to “accept” that. I think that instead of opening up more plus size clothing stores, making seats and revolving doors bigger to accommodate our growing size, we need to figure out why this is happening and DO something abt it. In a healthy way… Society either wants you to hate yourself & spend billions on BS diet food, pills & spanx or to “accept” it and keep killing yourself with the poison we are all addicted to. That way food corporations and the FDA don’t have to talk about the ridiculously low standards for regulating what you can give to ppl & call it “food.” This is an AMERICAN issue bc we are all abt “freedom” and free markets and “ill eat whatever I wantt, f-u government!” But other countries with much higher life expectancies have regulations about what they can put into food! And don’t get me started on “portion size!”

By: Drew Jacob

Drew Jacob — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:35:09 +0000

Excellent. I will report back, likely with a new post about what they say.

By: Drew Jacob

Drew Jacob — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:32:45 +0000

I agree with that, and have often been grateful for my muscle-building abilities in my process of losing weight.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:21:58 +0000

“I’ll ask them what they think of the current academic consensus on the efficacy of dieting. They can probably point me to the most current articles or studies.”

I’d be interested in what you find out.

By: Drew Jacob

Drew Jacob — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:14:05 +0000

In fairness, nobody is commenting on that comment because almost no one is looking at this post anymore – once a blog post is more than 2 days old most folks stop coming back to it and following the comments.

I realize Fat Acceptance as a movement hasn’t funded studies; I was referring to the ones FA frequently cites.

A study can be peer-reviewed and still not accepted by the majority of scientists. For example, there are peer-reviewed studies trying to support Creationism.

Likewise, a study can be outdated. For example, several years ago there was a peer-reviewed study that showed that prayer helped increase the recovery of sick patients. Then a different research team tried to reproduce the results and found out that there had been serious procedural errors. The results could never be reproduced, and the study is no longer credible.

I’m not saying the “95% of people can’t succeed at dieting” studies DO fall into this camp. But, for all I know – as an uneducated outsider who has no idea of the academic literature on the topic – they might. I’m just pointing out why I don’t take it at face value.

I have one friend who is a medical researcher and another who is a nutrition researcher. I’ll ask them what they think of the current academic consensus on the efficacy of dieting. They can probably point me to the most current articles or studies.

Thanks for jumping in here Deidre. I’m glad someone is still reading :)

By: Deidre Miller

Deidre Miller — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:43:45 +0000

And, nobody’s commenting on the post above because it’s so poorly supported. The person who wrote it has a strange impression of fat acceptance, and she doesn’t give enough detail about why she thinks as she does for anyone to refute it. Maybe there’s a blog or website somewhere that’s like that? Who knows.