MetaFilter posts tagged with diets and fat

Fat is genetic

serazin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:02:17 -0800

Fat is Genetic, from NY Times science writer (and sister of Judi Bari) Gina Kolata.

XXXXXXXXXL Buddha

digaman — Sat, 18 Sep 2004 09:32:31 -0800

The life and death of a supersized man. Walter Hudson was fat. Precisely how fat was impossible to determine, because the one time he agreed to be weighed on an industrial-strength scale, it broke. (Maybe it was something he ate?) But no one denies that Hudson was one of the most obese people of the modern era (note: pictures not safe before lunch). Former comic, erstwhile diet guru, civil rights activist and Michael Jackson proponent Dick Gregory was one of Hudson's many exploiters, but Hudson's agoraphobic existence sounds almost beatific.

Insert "beached whale" joke here.

ferociouskitty — Sun, 08 Jun 2003 10:55:09 -0800

"Live Large, Live Free!" Freedom Paradise is a new Mexican resort catering to large-size visiters. "There are a lot of people who put off vacations, saying, 'I'll buy that bikini when I lose 15 pounds.' We say, why wait to lose weight, when you can enjoy life now?"

hijinx — Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:50:27 -0800

This is the true story of what happens... when seven strangers... are picked to live in a house and have their lives taped... to see what happens when people stop being ~~polite~~ fat and start being ~~real~~ skinny. America's obsession with weight loss continues on ABC. It's the anti-Fat Project.