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[dreamer_easy]

We're constantly bombarded with stuff about food, fat, and dieting; I'm wary about adding to the babble here. Because I've got Type 2 Diabetes, though, it's an issue I can't completely avoid. I spit on body fascism, the dodgy diet industry, and the casual, commonplace bigotry against fat people. I rip down ads for snake oil diets when I see them in the street, and I daily remind my soft, sexy curves how much I love them. What I want is unbiased info about health: what is the relationship between my podge and my diabetes? What can I realistically do about it? I don't feel comfortable trusting either the general panic about how we're all going to swell up like balloons and explode; nor am I completely comfortable with fat activists' dismissal of links between podge and health. What I want is SCIENCE dammit SCIENCE. Will post some here when I find it - always behind a cut, because the radio TV newspaper politicians and quacks are filling you with enough crap as it is.

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The moral of the story is: fat != automatic disease death and despair.