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William Stafford, “Just Thinking,” in Ask Me

#poetry #queue tag

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by far the best part of grocery shopping is the little babies. i was carefully selecting mushrooms when i felt upon me a piercing gaze and looked up to see a very chubby and very red-cheeked baby staring intently at me from a grocery cart with a slightly furrowed brow, hand clutching an apple for dear life. i wiggled a mushroom at her and she gasped and kept staring. i turned back to the mushrooms and heard a shriek. i turned around and the baby stared in anticipation. i wiggled another mushroom and she shrieked again in delight. she looked down at the apple in her hand, considering it for a moment. fair-minded as she was, she decided it would only be right to wiggle produce at me in return, and she held up the apple and shook it with all her might. i think i could live forever now

#rainy day tag

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Big Fat List of Myth-Defying Health Resources

This is Redefining Body Image’s go-to list of resources, articles, research, videos, etc. providing facts and information regarding health and body image, especially dedicated to debunking the everyone’s favorite myth that fat = unhealthy.

If I referred you to this page and this way of thinking about fat and fat health is new to you, I encourage you to have an open mind.

If you have something to add, please submit! The more this list grows, the more ammo we have to back us up in our fight against the body positive nay-sayers.

Let the facts come marching in.

Big Fat Facts: The truth about fat, obesity, gastric bypass, and weight loss. Focuses on many aspects of fat health that are widely accepted but never challenged, targets the claims, points out the faults, and highlights the truth.

Articles and Evidence by the Fat Nutritionist that go into some of the controversies around dieting, weight, and eating.

A massive list of resources discussing the truth behind fat health can be found over at Big Liberty Blog, titled Truth Behind Fat: References. 

One of my staple resources, Kate Harding answers the ever popular question directed at fat activists: “But Don’t You Realize Fat Is Unhealthy?”

Some more from the lovely Kate Harding: “Reality vs. Relativism“ and ”Diets Don’t Work”.

A scientific study helping to prove how diets really work by, Junkfood Science - How We’ve Come to Believe that Overeating Causes Obesity

More of Me to Love discusses fat health, fitness, and health at every size.

Everyone Knows Obesity Is Hurting Us, But Is the Fight Against Obesity the Problem? - Linda Bacon, Ph.D.

The Health At Every Size® Manifesto.

Heart Surgeon Speaks Out Against What Really Causes Heart Disease - A very interesting and informative piece that details new studies on heart disease.

Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift

Medicare’s search for effective obesity treatments: diets are not the answer.

The TRUE Cost of Fatties - Looking closely at how obesity impacts gas costs and health care, which is to say not at all. 

More on Obesity and Healthcare Costs here.

Stereotype Management Skills by Deb Burgard, PhD. discusses how to refute fat shaming propaganda, among other helpful things.

Uncommon Knowledge About Changes in Body Weight by Lily O’Hara

Things Obesity is Not by Ragen Chastain

‘Everyone knows’ obesity kills, but is weight loss the answer? by Lydia Turner

Above-Normal Weight Alone Does Not Necessarily Increase Short-Term Risk of Death, U.S. Data Suggest - Science Daily, July 2012

Among diabetes patients, the obese outlive the trim - a study that cracks fat health stereotypes about type 2 diabetes

‘Fitness and Fatness’: Not All Obese People Have the Same Prognosis; Second Study Sheds Light On ‘Obesity Paradox’ - People can be obese but metabolically healthy and fit, with no greater risk of developing or dying from cardiovascular disease or cancer than normal weight people, according to the largest study ever to have investigated this seeming paradox.

This TED talk by Julie Rochefort called “Shift the Focus” discusses and displays a lot of really important data based around the fact that health is possible at EVERY size. A short 8 minute video that covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time.

This extensive article by Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D. called Obesity, Health, and Metabolic Fitness debunks a number of myths regarding fat health. Many important topics are covered, from “thinner is not necessarily healthier” to “emphasis on weight loss” being “misdirected and hazardous”, to challenging the link between obesity and heart disease. A very comprehensive and informative resource.

Fear Mongering for the Nation by Fat Body Politics - A critical look at the HBO documentary Weight of the Nation.

Why Diets are Harmful and Counterproductive by Linda Bacon challenges conventional wisdom regarding obesity and weight loss to support the conclusion that “Weight is a baseless measure for health, and weight loss a counterproductive goal.”

Fat Acceptance/Size Discrimination Related Resources (WIP)

Ever wanted to learn more about Fat Acceptance? Check out the Fat Acceptance FAQ over at Spilt Milk, complete with a list of links to some great health-related info.

5 Fat Acceptance Myths Debunked - Debunking myths such as “Fat acceptance demands complete confidence and self-love at all times.”

NAAFA Official Website

The Association for Size Diversity and Health // Research Articles

Body Positivity Resources (WIP)

Body Positivity 101 by The Ellipses Project

Thank you.

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i was so excited to see a hummingbird hawk-moth inside the garden centre today that i bothered a stranger about it.

lucky for me he was an entomologist and just as hyped! 🥹 (unlucky for me, i couldn't wow him with my sick moth knowledge.)

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lmao NONE of those words are in the necronomicon 🤣

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Crazyheadcomics

#ohhhhhhhh #head full of black birds #queue tag

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Meanie 💅

#she is baby #polyamorvee #hazbin #queue tag

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saw someone say that they block "ageless blogs" and for a moment i imagined, like, cthulhu having a tumblr

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Girl are you the Hays Code the way you consider media irredeemable if it depicts anything that strays away from the norm you're comfortable with or depicts anything morally questionable without definitively condemning it and anyone associated with it, therefore creating worse stories and content and making it difficult for people to engage with complicated issues from a nuanced and controlled perspective?

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unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

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What sugar villains

#this is soooo sweet #polyamorvee #hazbin #queue tag

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it's so easy to deny yourself basic things, like food and sleep, in order to punish yourself. but you deserve better. you deserve tasty foods that make you smile, to sleep in and go to bed early, to be warm and cozy. you never have to "earn" that. you deserve all of that and more just by existing. you're allowed to be kind to yourself. kindness is brave.

#rainy day tag #queue tag

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Chaos Mage, by Sergey Urlapov (Sergon), via DeviantArt.

#if drinking is bitter change yourself to wine #art

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The Vees + Tumblr textposts

bonus: Adam

#these are all so perfect #hazbin #laugh track

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I can't believe the future of hell belongs to these guys 😮‍💨🤧

#it's all going to go so well #i love vel's face it's so good #polyamorvee #hazbin #queue tag

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i was so fucking sad when i was 14 and now when i fold my laundry or see a pool of moonlight on the floor of my bedroom i know that miracles exist. i see love in everything. love sees everything in me too

#rainy day tag #queue tag