Various updates about life from my perspective.
Various updates
October 1st, 2008 2 Comments
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Getting steadily more pissed off about fat/fit/health issues
January 2nd, 2008 No Comments
After doing a lot of fat activist blogosphere reading, joining the Big Fat Blog (ain’t commented yet, though) with full disclosure as to my relationship with Hanne Blank, the great evil-doer of the Fickle Finger of Fat blog, and of course being and staying on course for increasing my own personal level of fitness-related activities and examining and being careful about my diet (and my “relationship to food”), I find myself Very Pissed Off.
(read on for some of my details, including an enumeration of some of the top issues I have with what people say about how diets work and how science works)