User:Noir LeSable/sandbox/Health at Every Size

''Author's nose: The pseudoscience and toxicity in this topic has been driving me batty, so here's me starting a thing about it. I'll also probably be changing around/cleaning up the movement-critical section of the FA article as well. Let's see how far I can get with this before I either get too frustrated or eventually lose interest.''

Pending edits to FA
A number of bloggers also tend to equate fatphobia with other major social injustices, such as institutionalized racism, homophobia, transphobia, and sexism, or claim analogous opression on such levels. This is misguided at best, and insultingly reductive of the other experiences at worst. Yes, fat discrimination exists and its results are visibly harmful, but the fat acceptance movement is one of eliminating stigma, not eliminating oppression. [Something about equating modern day size discrimination to other minority groups who have experienced and still experience severe marginalization, loss of civil liberties, and in some cases, actively hunted down being insulting.] Note to self: counterarguments?

Some bloggers also use language that seem body-positive, but instead are body-negative or femi-negative. They are commonly seen in the form of: "Real women have curves," "Boys like a little more booty to hold at night," "Bones are for dogs, men like meat," and so on. This sort of language is pernicious in two ways: first, it's [something about body-policing under the guise of being fat positive] and second, it's [something about how this keeps the focus on keeping self-esteem and self-worth on male desirability/beauty standards/being sexualized/ick]

Bucket of references to probably be mixed in at some point (if relevant)
Interesting note re: HAES registry --
 * 8026 signed pledge
 * 1131 went on and signed registry
 * Of that, 163 self-identify as physicians, nurses, or healthcare practitioners
 * Of that, only about 5 appear to be accredited doctors/nurses who were not A) Psychologists or psychotherapists B) Dietitians/Nutritionists or C) Naturopaths, Osteopaths, Acupuncturists, Chiropractors, Integrative Medicine Doctors, etc.

Greta Christina blog post "Caught between fat and thin" (Also has article series "Fat-Positive Feminist Skeptical Diet" -- read later)

The Skeptic's Diet, Stephen Novella -- note studies in sources too.

CICO arguments: Calories, Thermo, and Weight, Stephen Novella, also Calories In-Calories Out, and a few more in SBM by Novella (seem like all before 2010, any written anything more recently?)

Thoughtcatalog articles and responses: http://thoughtcatalog.com/carolyn-hall/2014/04/6-things-i-dont-understand-about-the-fat-acceptance-movement/ - What started it http://thoughtcatalog.com/jes-baker/2014/04/6-things-that-i-understand-about-the-fat-acceptance-movement/ - Response by Baker http://thoughtcatalog.com/carolyn-hall/2014/05/8-things-i-learned-from-writing-an-article-critical-of-fat-acceptance/ - Response by Hall, original author http://thoughtcatalog.com/nick-bente/2014/08/the-fat-acceptance-movement-will-result-in-peoples-deaths/ - Response by Bente

Choice or Coercion - Michelle "The Fat Nutritionist"

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1454084 Discrepancy between self-reported and actual caloric intake and exercise in obese subjects. Lichtman, et al. (1992) New England Journal of Medicine]

Anti-Obesity Activists Fight For Fat Acceptance; Here's Where They're Right and Wrong On Issues of Obesity, Natural News (I mean, seriously, if Natural News doesn't even condone your movement...)

Losing 58.3 lbs for science - got fwded this article re: genetics vs dieting, read later. See if study is available yet.

Obesity Paradox
UPenn LDI

Article
Tune into your body's expert guidance. Find the joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good... The best way to win the war against fat is to give up the fight.

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