A Resistance in Health
I wanted to let the author and other readers know that in the past few years, as political organizations challenging the many aspects of discrimination against the adipose began attracting a few members of the medical, fitness and other health professions, as well as sociologists and cultural anthropologists, these began forming a faction to promote a dissident paradigm called Health At Every Size. A researcher at U.C. Davis, Linda Bacon, wrote a book by this name. I hope you'll check her web site out as well as the Association for Size Diversity and Health.
More recently, on KPFA, after one guest spoke of his promotion of a soda tax in Richmond, CA (which would tax sweetened sodas a penny an ounce but not tea, coffee, dairy, medical, pediatric, or, hilariously enough, sweetened drinks "for weight reduction"), another guest, who authored a book called "Your Brain On Nature", mentioned as one of his points that poor people with access to open natural spaces have almost as much longevity as rich people. He did not say whether this applied equally to fat poor people as to thin poor people, but what if the ability to see, hear, and feel something truly naturally pleasant once in a while (something that some seem hell-bent on denying fat people) is a far more important thing for health than body size?
