Speaking of Jeremy Renner (NOT AT ALL AWKWARD SEGUE!): Have you all seen the Hawkeye Initiative yet? http://thehawkeyeinitiative.tumblr.com/

Uh... the point of this isn't "Hey! Let's objectify men too!" It's supposed to point out how ridiculous the poses that women in comics get shoved into. Half the stuff people choose as inspiration features ladies who have somehow managed to bend their spine so you can see both T&A at all times. Which is anatomically…

I do what I can :D

Excellent work.

Holy hell, that is some bullshit right there. Right call in leaving. You should absolutely not have to put up with that.

Question from another fat athlete- do you ever feel like people don't believe you when you tell them how often you train? Because I totally get that. Either that, or they assume I'm trying to lose weight.

I use my school's gym (I'm a grad student and thus get free access), which I find delightfully run down. For whatever reason, I find places that are clearly old much more comfortable.

Indeed. Truly the lesson here is that the Lauren Faust/Craig McCracken team (who also brought us the Powerpuff Girls) and the dudes that write Avatar: The Last Airbender (which features many, MANY kick-ass female characters) deserve more work.

Ugh that sucks. We had a powderpuff game at my school, but it was always kind of insane. The cheerleaders went out for the team, but usually just sort of stood around on the sides. We had a couple a girls from track who served as running backs, we had to do try outs for the skilled positions, and a bunch of us who…

I kind of think the most disappointing thing about this sketch is that freaking fanfic writers are handling dialogue for this type of setup better than the writers here did.

Yo, I know I'm late to the party and this probably won't get seen at all, but I have to make this point.

It contradicts your point because the health related behaviors we would typically recommend (and that is the approach I prefer, mind you), based on the description you provided were ineffective.

That link doesn't work, but what you have stated there does not support your conclusion. In fact, unless I'm misreading you, it directly contradicts your conclusion.

What is the "1/3 of obese people could be considered healthy" referencing? I don't believe I'm familiar with that statistic. If you have a source, I would be interested to read it.

Woot woot!

Yes. Like I said, it works well enough for that purpose. It doesn't work if you're trying to look at yourself and say "Am I overweight?" using BMI charts alone. It might be sort of correct, but its pretty easy to deviate from the norms used to determine the chart. At the population level, everything is aggregated, so…

I am using the word "epidemic" the way it is meant to be used. Yes, epidemic primarily refers to diseases and disorders. It could relate to the number of people who are a certain height if the trends indicated a deviation from expectation.

As I said, I do think you can be healthy and overweight/obese, based primarily on lifestyle factors, like that study Jez talked about a while back about active overweight or obese people not being statistically more "unhealthy" than lower BMI groups. I do agree with the concept of a set-point, ie a weight that is…

You said overweight. Yes, it is semantics, but if you're gonna argue epidemiology with me, you better use the terms correctly.

So true. I feel like anytime I see reporting on an epid study, I spent the rest of my day yelling "NO. INCORRECT." at strangers on the internet.