This, this - a million times, this: "And even when a person is obese and has all kinds of obesity related health problems, that doesn't give you license to treat them like a pariah".

Retail employees not impressed by customer's accidental encounter with body fluids. News at 11.

Understandably shaken, Pauline asked to speak to a manager, who pulled her aside and gave her some hand sanitizer and a 30% off coupon. No one took her name down, no one offered to follow up with her.

Choosing healthier foods and moving more isn't enough to produce effective and permanent weight loss. If you're obese or very overweight and have been all of your life, only under strict medical guidance are you likely to lose a considerable amount of weight. Even then, your weight set point is going to remain at…

Well, this is weird. If you read the actual report, it says that another related risk factor is height. "The evidence that developmental factors leading to greater linear growth (marked by adult attained height) are a cause of ovarian cancer is convincing. " So nutritional and other factors that make you taller also…

I think the key thing about the fat acceptance movement is acknowledging that weight loss is challenging/impossible for most, and that focusing on global health for those people may be* a more positive and productive use of their time. I really don't see it as, "well I've decided NOT to be size 4 after all!" It's…

Can I get that framed somewhere!? I have been called troll waaaay too many times for not auto agreeing with the hive mind.

The link between weight and "lady cancers" is sadly unsurprising to me. When I was diagnosed with uterine cancer last year, my oncologist was quite blunt in telling me that my weight was a likely contributor to my having gotten the disease relatively early (I was 33 at the time). I'm cancer-free (and lady bit-free)…

I am not looking forward to the trolls on this post being like OMG SEE FAT = UNHEALTHY MOST DEFINITELY YOU WILL DIE AND I'M CONCERNED FOR YOU HEALTH EXCEPT REALLY YOU JUST DISGUST ME. Sigh.

Considering the fact that we are learning more and more ways in which being significantly overweight can be dangerous, the extent to which people— and especially western populations— are purposefully misled when it comes to how much food the human body needs is fucking tragic. I think we need a massive overhaul of…

What was she doing on their stupid radio show anyway? Kyle Sandilands is the guy responsible for strapping a 14 year old to a lie detector and quizzing her about her sex life. Turns out the girl had been raped at 12...

You're not alone! 25 & still have a long, long way to go on working on it here

It's strange, I'm kinda "oh crap I'm turning 40!!" And then I'm also noticing that what I like to call my bullshit-o-meter now has a hair trigger. So in situations where I used to get walked on (a lot) now my knee jerk reaction is to speak up and call out the BS or whatever. The word No comes out of my mouth so much…

You should have been a teen in the early 90s! Big curly hair was de rigeur!

It will come. I'll be 40 this year and I'm finally starting to come into my own. I find myself saying things I never would have said before, and then think "did I just actually say that out loud?!?!" And it feels GREAT!!!!

I really wish having big curly hair and wearing not a lot of makeup was popular in the late 90s when I was a teen!

...and after the arduous task of guarding an unarmed black guy in Florida for a week, every one of his Secret Service Agents asked for a vacation as soon as they got back.

You jest, but I would like to know the rationalization for making that choice.

I walk around armed; I walk around with a bullet proof vest; it's not so much for my safety as it is so much for those around me. I can be around my family and something might happen to them. There's children around me, etc. Those threats… I have to be able to defend myself like any American.