Archive for the ‘Obesity’ Category

• A society of intolerance

  Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

  Our society has become a bastion of intolerance and self righteousness. If you are not one of what these people feel is the norm you are free targets to be bullied and made to suffer. One of the latest to decide what should be acceptable and voice her opinion is Maura Kelly, a journalist of [...]

• Supersizing is killing us

  Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

  Southern girl that I am, I must admit that I have a love of good food. Even though I was not brought up on fast food, I love it. I have in the last few years come to have an adversity to some fast food because of the need to supersize everything. Or when looked [...]

• Oh heck no

  Friday, September 3rd, 2010

  Now I must admit that I have been a big girl all my 60 plus years and most likely will stay that way. But when I read an article about a woman that was not hired by Weight Watcher because after losing 118 pounds and now only wearing a size 12, she was still too [...]

• Dying to be thin

  Thursday, September 17th, 2009

  I have chronicled my fight with weight and know what its like to want to be thin. I have gone to some extreme methods to try to lose weight due to the pressure I put on myself and the pressure I received from society. I can remember a fad that was going around in the [...]

• PETA”s AHA moment

  Friday, August 28th, 2009

  I don’t think that Bill Robinson, the Black tap-dancing artist, could have done faster tap steps than PETA has done recently. They have shuffled and jived their way to remove the offensive billboard in Jacksonville, Florida, showing an overweight woman in a bikini, stomach spilling over saying “save a whale, go vegetarian.” PETA is now [...]