{"id":319,"date":"2006-06-15T08:09:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T08:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/15\/im-not-fat-im-just-bigboned\/"},"modified":"2006-06-15T08:09:56","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T08:09:56","slug":"im-not-fat-im-just-bigboned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/15\/im-not-fat-im-just-bigboned\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Not Fat, I&#8217;m Just Big-Boned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weight and weight loss has turned out to be more popular than I would&#8217;ve expected as a blog topic&#8211; I get a remarkable number of search engine hits looking for some sort of diet information. Given that, I would be remiss if I failed to note an ongoing series of posts on &#8220;fat acceptance&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceblogs.com\/bushwells\/\">Dr. Joan Bushwell&#8217;s Chimpanzee Refuge<\/a>, one of the new ScienceBlogs members:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bushwells\/2006\/06\/heavy_hitters_part_1_the_scale.php\">Part one<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bushwells\/2006\/06\/heavy_hitters_part_2_by_the_nu_1.php\">Part two<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bushwells\/2006\/06\/heavy_hitters_part_3_biting_ba_1.php\">Part three<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(The promised parts four and five will undoubtedly show up soon.)<\/p>\n<p>The basic thesis is that being overweight is Bad, and that &#8220;fat acceptance&#8221; advocates are Bad People. This has resulted in suprisingly little poo-flinging, for a chimpanzee refuge, but things might pick up later&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(As previously noted, I&#8217;m sort of agnostic on this. I think the &#8220;obesity epidemic&#8221; is somewhat overrated, and that the BMI is really badly flawed as a standard for weight, but I have a hard time believing that there aren&#8217;t some negative health consequences to being overweight.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weight and weight loss has turned out to be more popular than I would&#8217;ve expected as a blog topic&#8211; I get a remarkable number of search engine hits looking for some sort of diet information. Given that, I would be remiss if I failed to note an ongoing series of posts on &#8220;fat acceptance&#8221; at&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/06\/15\/im-not-fat-im-just-bigboned\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m Not Fat, I&#8217;m Just Big-Boned<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}