Posts Tagged by Health
What It Means To Be Fat
| December 21, 2011 | Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance |
(Photo from Fat From the Side, where user marfmellow says, “I can’t lie though, my cherubic cheeks are pretty lovely.”) I ended my post Why Use The Word Fat talking about how we basically know what the word fat physically indicates. Beyond the physical, what else does being fat indicate? If you are living in this culture, whether you live in a fat body or not, you’ve probably got a good idea what being fat means. It’s used as… Keep Reading
Pregnancy: 37 Weeks
| April 26, 2011 | Posted by Issa under Pregnancy and Birth |
The average length of pregnancy from last menstrual period for white women giving birth the first time is 41 weeks 1 day. Giving myself some room on both sides of that line, I’m considering my “safe” window for birthing at home 38 weeks to 43 weeks. That means I’ve got one more week to go until I’m in the window. I remind myself that there could be 6 more weeks of pregnancy, which seems like… Keep Reading
Pregnancy: 31 Weeks
| March 16, 2011 | Posted by Issa under Pregnancy and Birth |
We’re getting close to the home stretch here! Yay! It’s exciting for the number of weeks to start with a three! Here’s what’s on my mind this week: First up, food: I’ve written some here before about my high blood sugar readings and my attempts to cut out carbs in an effort to reduce those readings. If I were seeing an OB, I’m sure I’d be diagnosed with gestational diabetes. My friends have been a… Keep Reading
How To Be Condescending About Weight-Loss
| January 27, 2011 | Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance |
(Image courtesy Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. All images that appear on posts about weight at LoveLiveGrow will be of fat people with heads.) I read a lot of stuff on the internet. I’ve got my search patterns pretty well dialed in so that most of what I read is stuff I want to read. I’m either probably going to like it, or I’m probably going to enjoy not liking it. Every now and then,… Keep Reading
Drinking Full Fat, Whole Milk
| December 13, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Kitchen, Simple-Eco-Happy |
I grew up drinking 2% milk. I was raised on the philosophy that you should drink the lowest fat milk you could tolerate since by default fewer calories were better. As an adult, when I switched to organic milk, I also switched to non-fat milk, since the organic was richer, and I liked the non-fat milk just fine. Just a few months ago, Joshua asked me why I was drinking non-fat milk. I mean, I’ve finally gotten over calorie counting and other dieting nonsense, so it didn’t make sense to him why I would drink anything other than whole milk. I really stammered for an answer that would make sense and not rely on erroneous dieting thinking. I liked the taste of lower fat milk just fine, unlike, say, non-fat cookies. So, all other things being equal, I finally settled on a stammered answer something along the lines of, “Why not?” But embedded in there is the real question I should have been asking: Between different fat levels of milk, are all other things really equal? Keep Reading
NuVal Nutritional Scoring System
| November 30, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Think About It |
I’ve been seeing billboards around town advertising NuVal, a new food rating system for grocery stores. Joshua and I looked up what exactly NuVal is and then a couple of days later happened to shop at a grocery store using the system. There are some things that seem really positive about the NuVal system and also things that make me hopping mad. Keep Reading
What We All Want In a Baby
| November 12, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Pregnancy and Birth |
In a thread on a parenting message board I belong to, people were stating whether they hoped they were having a boy or a girl. One person said, “We all want a certain gender, but we also just want a baby that’s healthy,” and that whole sentence really rankles me. Keep Reading
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