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    Twice as much pizza - is that really true?

    We're alpha defenders by nature and pizza is a potential threat to society. Nom-nom-nom (must ex-ter-mi-nate, ex-ter-MI-NATE, EX-TER-MI-NATE!)
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    Don't bother. While you don't discount any specific studies, you totally discount statistics, a tool critical for most scientific studies and invent your own version of the truth. I don't believe we have anything further to discuss. I now see why you get caught up in endless debates as you state...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    No, the data is pretty complete. They died and are still dead. They were fat and died at ages over fifteen years below the average age for longevity in the US. And they died of obesity related diseases. While I hate all of that from both a FAc and FAd perspective, those are cold, hard facts...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    I stumbled across this article while searching for old names from the FAc movement. It's an interesting snapshot of the era of FAc 101 in the 70's. Back then the Zine scene was the equivalent of today's social media. Talk about literal snail mail...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    I suspect it's because so many of the true pioneers died before the age of 55, and some before 45. Like "Teighlor", "Ambrosia", and Susan Mason in these vids. The word got out among the newcomers to the fat scene that it's not just an issue of attitude and acceptance...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    everyone All your posts indicate a lack of familiarity with the history of the movement. In the beginning the focus was solely on acceptance of fat. I'm one of the generation who joined NAAFA in the eighties and authored one of the more successful advertising taglines "It's time you did...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    Unfortunately the author commits the same mistakes as people did during what she refers as SA 101. She complains that she didn't find a perfect fit to her expectations of the movement. It's that "What have you done for me" attitude that has always held back the movement. But it's rooted in...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    So, you not only want your draw your own conclusions, but you want your own facts as well since you said earlier that you completely discount all the existing scientific studies contained within Medscape, NIH, NAS, et al due to their use of statistics. No health related study will be complete...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    That was a good TED talk. It quickly covers the more detailed research that's been done into obesity issues over the last few decades. There is one thing I would challenge her on in regards to "Mindful Eating" (or intuitive eating, as others have labeled it). It's the recommendation to "stop...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    Resuming where I left off, here are my remaining comments to your previous post: If the "natural body shape" (#12) involves someone reaching a BMI of 60 or more, there have already been numerous studies done that shows an improvement in health outcomes following reduction in BMI. But somehow...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    Actually physiological issues like diabetes and diabetic complications, orthopedic issues like damaged joints and stress fractures, congestive heart failure, and many other weight related problems have caused many of our former compatriots and allies to abandon the path of fat acceptance. Yes...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    It is this point I was addressing in my previous comment to you. I've now found a few articles that cite remarks from Zuckerberg "who has asked for "forgiveness" for ways his "work was used to divide people," revealed Facebook's new mission statement this past summer." Somehow I suspect they...
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    Do you have a source you can cite for that? I suspect it's at most an unintended consequence of the users being the product being delivered to the advertisers.
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    Is it just me, or is social media itself the problem?

    You've basically chronicled what I've been saying for the past couple of years. The Fat Acceptance movement is over. It was killed by several issues, from the faux "size diversity" movement as well as the number of fat people who've had WLS and don't believe they need fat acceptance anymore...
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    Airplane Travel

    They've also been known to split them up. A SSBHM friend of mine who frequently flys for his job always books two seats for himself. He's had a few times his seat assignments weren't adjoining. Most of the time they would correct the situation. But one time they wouldn't. Once the...
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    Is a hamburger a sandwich?

    So a sandwich (made with cold cuts and various veggies) treated with a heated panini press stops being a sandwich? No, wait - "panini" is generally accepted as Italian for "sandwich". (Actually "bread roll". Which opens up the interesting possibility that a "hamburger" is actually a panini due...
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    Is a hamburger a sandwich?

    I'd vote that a hamburger is most often a sandwich, when it's not a lettuce wrap (or a "ground steak", a Salisbury Steak, or hamburger steak). But then there's that pesky hot dog and similar link based meats.
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    Airplane Travel

    At least three conventional seats. :blush:
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    Globesity

    I remember everyone singing "We will overcome" at the NAAFA Convention in Baltimore back in the early nineties. Fifty-seven percent of kids will be obese (BMI=>30) by age 35. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-57-percent-kids-track-obesity-35-study-220411704.html
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    Fat Census

    Not really. Most of the oppressive issues and situations encountered by fat people are pretty well known and already collected by previous studies by real researchers. Unfortunately they were collected and leveraged in advertising by bariatric surgeons to encourage fat people to get WLS. I...
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