Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's been too much shame, too much pain and too much hiding, said Sally E. Smith, executive director of the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. NAAFA sponsored a weeklong August convention, and is now sending volunteers into schools to educate against taunting and discrimination. Smith says it's time for fat people to get out of the house, stand proudly among the Kate Mosses of the world and maybe even offer the poor birds something...
Proud, defiant and tired of stereotypes. Heavyweight actress Camryn Manheim of the TV show The Practice said it got old watching Lara Flynn Boyle, her bag-of-bones co-star, get all the steamy action. Fat women like their bread buttered too, so Manheim made a bold demand of her producer, she told the crowd: "I want a kiss, and I want one with tongue...
...applause was thunderous. Revelers wore buttons that said 55% AND GAINING, a reference to a government report that more than half the population is overweight. T shirts were vast billboards for sponsors, including Fat Bastard Sportswear, Bodacious Babes and Gut Reaction...
Applauded at the march were arguments that there's no such thing as permanent weight loss, that fat people are fat because of their genes and not a weakness for Cheez Curls and Ding Dongs, and the diet industry is a $40 billion annual ripoff. Although the media are despised for cheap fat jokes and the glorification of supermodels and other stick people, "our evil enemy is the diet industry," says Smith, who laid into fad diets and the manufacturers of diet drugs with dangerous side effects...
Denial is a wonderful thing. But before you dash out for doughnuts: "Many people have genetics that lead to a huskier look, and often that huskiness is not fat. [But] there are people we all know who used to be fat, then permanently changed their life-styles, and are now thin." says Dr. David Heber of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Obesity most definitely increases risk of heart disease, Heber adds...