The BBC on the recent University College London study on 5,000 twins (identical and fraternal) that demonstrates that “Obesity ‘may be largely genetic’”.

Additionally, Junkfood Science has a very well written summary of a seminal 1940’s study on starvation and physiological/psychological responses to starvation, as well as what happens when starvation is remedied and folks’ eating habits adjust. In fact, there seems to be very little cause to say that folks who eat a lot after going on starvation diets are “overeating”, and apparently body weights return to almost the same as before starvation within 9 months of returning to a situation where access to food is unfettered.

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)

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