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Real Food - POSTED ON: Nov 16, 2013
The article below says something that really needed saying.
Real Food
By Michelle - November 11, 2013 - www. fatnutritionist.com
“Real food” is a term I dislike almost as much as “real women,” and for many of the same reasons.
On occasion, I run into this idea coupled with the concept of intuitive eating. People will proclaim how much they believe in permission and fulfilling your hunger and eating whatever you want (so far, so good)…but with one small caveat (uh-oh.) Permission and eating as much as you’re hungry for and eating what you like are, apparently, only legitimate if the food being eaten meets some mysterious criteria that imbues it with that holiest of all holy contemporary food values, the coveted title of “real food.”
For some people, real food means “food I make entirely at home from scratch [for varying values of 'from scratch.']” For some, it means “mainly plant-based foods with a smattering of dairy and animal protein.” For others, it means “entirely raw foods that have not been cooked.” And for yet others, it might mean anything from “a vegetarian diet” to “mostly meat and certain vegetables and no grains” to “a vegan diet composed entirely of homemade food” to “I grow everything I eat on my own land, including grains which I mill into flour myself and then deep-fry unrepentantly.”
There is a lot of wiggle-room in this term.
Before I go further, it is important for me to make it crystal clear that for people who choose to eat in one of these ways, I say good for you. I sincerely hope you enjoy it and feel great. Rock on. I am all for people making very personal choices about what foods they eat and don’t eat. I think the above are all decent options, but most importantly, it doesn’t matter what I think, because your body belongs to you. Personal autonomy around food is the driving force behind this entire website.
The problem is that I’ve met very few people who make personal choices of the “real food” persuasion without also pressuring those ...
The Hunger Games - POSTED ON: Nov 10, 2013
"Be Hungry all the time
so that other people
will like the way you look?
That's just dumb."
MORE Healthy Eating - POSTED ON: Nov 09, 2013
It seems that "Eating Healthy" was a problem even 60+ years ago. See this 1951 propaganda film for amusing and erroneous advice.
The message here: "the way you ate made you sick" is very similar to "the way you ate made you fat". Both messages attach Blame for personal behavior.
I find the film's portrayal of a "normal" sized family interesting. Although the population here in the 2010s is generally heavier than the 1950s population, each member of this family (including the children) appeared to be heavier than the people who are commonly shown in most of today's food commercials.
Mom appears to have a BMI well-above the Obesity border, and Dad's BMI probably is over that border as well .. although his weight might fall merely in the high-area of the Overweight BMI range. The girl (teenage?) appeared to have a mid-normal BMI -- which isn't thin enough for today's skinny jeans, and the pre-adolescent boy would need to wear relaxed-fit pants.
Look at the amount of food served here, and how much everyone was instructed to eat. Although the film depicts the time of my own childhood, I was seldom served, or even allowed to eat, such a large meal. There are a great many calories in: a 4 to 6 oz glass of Juice, bowl of cereal, couple of eggs, a couple of pieces of bacon, some buttered toast and 8-10 oz glass of whole-milk. About 1,000 + calories, which is actually MORE calories than my body (as a small, sedentary, elderly, female) will burn in an entire day.
Did anyone REALLY ever believe that a healthy person will get a stomach ache from:
or
Healthy Eating - POSTED ON: Nov 08, 2013
The difficulties of eating "Healthy".
Graphic by: This is Not a Diet - its your life.
It's not ME, It's YOU - POSTED ON: Nov 05, 2013
I am definitely the best witness of my own experience. For a lifetime I’ve examined myself, my behaviors and how they affect my body. I’ve gathered evidence, researched the issues, analyzed the data, and formed conclusions about myself which are based on the relevant evidence.
I’ve chosen to view dieting as a hobby, and for many reasons, I plan to continue my personal involvement in that activity.
However, I’m thinking that it is time to end my relationship with Fat Sigma. While doing so, I’d like to make my reasons for the breakup clear. So, I’ll reverse the ususal breakup statement which is shown in the picture here, and say to the Fat-Biased-in-Society:
“It’s not ME, it’s YOU.”
The following article is one that I wish I had written myself.
They Don’t Know Fatties by Ragen Chastain - www. danceswithfat
I was thinking today about how often we are told that, as fat people, everyone who is not fat is a better witness to our experience than we are. How often someone is considered an expert in weight loss, or becoming thin, or being not fat simply because they happen to be thin. We are told that we’re not competent witnesses to what and how much we do or should eat, or how much we do or should move. Our bodies are held up as proof that we must be lying or deluded and that we can’t possibly know, or be doing, what’s best for us. We are told that, because of how we look, we should be subject to more scrutiny than those who don't look like us, we should lose our right to speak for ourselves, we should be stereotyped and stigmatized and bullied and war should be waged against us - that the way we look means that we shouldn't get to choose how highly we prioritize our health or the path we choose to get there like everyone else does. We are forced to listen to people like Jillian and Bob on The Biggest Loser prattle on insufferably about how fat people think and what fat people do and what it's like to be a fat person as if we are all walking around under the guide of the same brain just because we share a single physical characteristic. We, and the rest of society, are told that everyone from Dr. Phil to Dr. Oz to random people on the internet know more about how and why we think and act, and what it's like to be us, than we do. When we tell people that constant social stigma is damaging to our health, we are told that it's for our own good and we should be grateful to hear that our bodies are socially unacceptable more often and more aggressively than we already are. When we tell people that we are not suffering from obesity,...
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