All posts tagged "Weight Loss"

Everything you know about dieting is wrong, say US scientists who have devised a new formula for calculating calories and weight lossthat they hope will revolutionize the way people tackle obesity.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Sticking to diets with strict proportions of fat, carbs and protein may not be more effective for people who want to lose weight and fat mass than simply cutting back on calories, according to a new comparison of four diets.

(Reuters) - Overweight adults eat less often than people in the normal body weight range, but still take in more calories and are less active over the course of the day, according to a U.S. study.

So there's been a dust-up between a guest blogger named Monica at Feministe and fat activists (mostly on Twitter that I've seen), with Maia actually posting on it. I'm not interested in getting in the middle of it. I think both sides make good points. FAs are right that Monica is out of line suggesting their negative experiences with health care providers are figments of their imaginations, but Monica is right that the "but some highly muscular people are technically obese!" is a disingenuous argument. I think people were too hard on Monica, but also that she was incredibly unfair in some ways. I want to talk about the most glaring unfair assertion she made, one that was pulled out by Kate Harding on Twitter in particular.

Pam wrote on this earlier, but I can't help but weigh in.