Content warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
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Content warning: Use of language that may be triggering
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history.
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Content warning: Reviews of a documentary mention the "O" word and WLS, as well as discussion of guidelines put out by an organization for evaluating commercial IWL promotions
The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the June 1987 issue you will find: Discussion and commentary about: the documentary "Life in the Fat Lane"; guidelines for evaluating commercial weight loss promotions; NAAFA committee appointments and a message from the Newsletter editor; a review of a live show, "The Late Great Ladies of Blues and Jazz"!
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I heard a friend recently call the diet industry the "weight cycling" industry. I love that because it is so very true. In any other industry, if you had a failure rate of 95%, you'd be closing the doors. But diet culture has lied to us and told us that they didn't fail, we did. Quite the marketing tool! Since no one I know likes to think of themselves as a failure, they keep trying and end up weight cycling.
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