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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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[kateorman.livejournal.com]

One of the main objections of fat acceptance activists is to the automatic assumption that fat people need only diet and they'll become thin. I'm still researching this, but I think there may not be a solid scientific basis for what seems at first glance like a common-sense assumption! I don't want to torture myself with attempts to lose weight which are doomed from the start, or unrealistic assumptions about how much and how fast, or exaggerated fear of my own fat.