Recently, many in the embattled anti-fat community have felt their oppression rights particularly oppressed by the findings coming from a Dutch study on the true cost of obesity. This study suggests, using little more than logic and mathematics, that as obese people are likely to die younger and faster than thin people, they end up […]
We at the Institute apologize for the lack of an update yesterday. Though, being that we are thin, we can expect you will have inferred that this was because we were so busy and not because we were lazy.
We are still very thin and very busy today, but showing the effective time-management skills that allow […]
The BMI, or Body Mass Index, is an oft-misunderstood concept in the scienterrific community.
The number one misconception we must address about the BMI is the mistaken notion that this simple number somehow determines how much an individual is worth as a person, his or her value to society, and overall fitness as a human being.
This […]
Dr. J, a regular contributor at CalorieLabs.com, the same site which broke the important news stories that Disney wants your kids to grow up fat and that you can join MediFast NOW and get two weeks of MediFast food free, poses an interesting question in a recent post:
Do obese people litter more?
The answer, of course, […]
How many times has this happened to you? You meet a fat person, or encounter one on the internet, and when you try to helpfully explain their problems to them and maybe even give them an easy to implement solution, they interrupt you with a lot of really bad facts—often for no better reason than […]
Ever since the Institute first opened its cyber-doors way back in January of 2008, we’ve received almost three e-mails from literally two readers, some of whom doubtlessly wondered, “What all this talk about ‘good facts’ and ‘bad facts’? How can a fact be bad?”
We here at the Institute look at three simple criteria before judging […]
Good Fact: It is exactly as easy to lose weight as it is to update a blog.
This good fact comes to us from a special correspondent, noted dietitian, and celebrated theologian by the name of “alx7958,” who also reminds us that there are no fat people in heaven. While such spiritual matters are normally beyond […]
We hear a lot about “self-esteem” these days, but what is it? More importantly, what does it mean to you as a person?
Like anything else that ever existed anywhere in the entire world, the answer depends on whether you are thin or fat.
In thin people (sometimes known as “people of value”), the presence of self-esteem […]
