Posts by Danielle
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You suggest that the use of only men in studies done in the previous century was somehow a sexist or cultural bias held by the medical research community.
I'm afraid, Dyan, that the concept of sexist bias in medical research is not my idea, has nothing whatsoever to do with Junk Food Science, and has been a rather well-discussed and researched tenet of feminist medical history for at least 30 years. Perhaps you could take this issue up with feminist medical historians? There are a fair number of them.
Danielle, you are not in a position to have any relevant opinion on the value of a study like this unless you are conversant with at least the basics of endocrinology, biochemistry, clinical chemistry, histology, physiology, cardiology and epidemiology.
I am really trying to maintain politeness here, Dyan, but, um, sheez. I even used references. Frankly, I don't think my viewpoints are particularly extreme, I don't think what I'm saying is particularly crazy, and I don't think you're likely to hector me into submission any time soon. Sorry.
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..and I was thinking, "Why not Paul instead?"
By hokey, them's fightin' words, Dr Lealand!
Look, one day soon Paul will die, and then we will be able to forget what a giant douchey cheeseball he is (although at least *he* didn't totally abandon his first son, start over with a new one, and then nauseatingly pretend to be the world's best father. I'm looking at *you*, John Winston Ono Lennon), and instead we'll just remember that he has written many, many songs worthy of all kinds of superlatives.
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Dude, I would defend Ringo if I was living in a cardboard box on the street. That is, in fact, just the way I roll.
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Oh. There's a 'like' missing from the last sentence of the first paragraph. I am clearly too incensed on Ringo's behalf to write properly.
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Paul is clearly the best technical musician in The Beatles by a good long stretch (he's a good drummer and some of his guitar solos for the Beatles are really great - 'Taxman', that searing bit at the end of the Abbey Road medley - as well as being a truly innovative bassist). But Ringo is not a *character* FFS. He drummed on most of the songs and again, I urge you to listen to 'Rain' as one example, a track on which he does some very cool fills. It's not he's a member of Milli Vanilli.
Don't mess with my Ringo, man! :)
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the Victoria Hotel on Little Collins Street in Melbourne
I liked that hotel! Are my standards too low? (I paid for one of the 'upmarket' rooms, though.)
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Argh. Dear Zak Starkey and the ghost of John Entwistle: I am sorry for misspelling your names.
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I was at the Who too. Notes:
1. We missed Hello Sailor, but fuck I hate Adam Duritz.
2. Sad not to hear 'I Can See For Miles'.
3. I loved some of the films created for the backdrop. The one for 'My Generation' was particularly awesome - lots of clips of different groups of 20th century youths dancing.
4. I'm not so much of a huge fan of the 70s bombasty Who, but they put some stank on those songs too.
5. Entwhistle's absence was felt. Although replacement dude was pretty good.
6. Zac Starkey is an almighty badass. Although I got into a small debate with the guy next to me who felt the need to dis Ringo while complimenting his son. 'Oh, Ringo was never really a drummer, he was always more of a character.' Actually, no. Listen to 'Rain' and hush it up, friend.That's all I got. :)
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But since nobody here is blaming anybody for anything (right?), responding with rants makes me wonder whether obesity as a health issue can be talked about at all.
I think Ben's posts about how sneaky and duplicitous The Fatties are with their food intake were pretty insulting and judgemental in a couple of different ways. Particularly (as Dyan noted) since people can and do become obese without eating much at all.
I also happen to think that some blame actually exists: in the diet industry, in the food industry, in urban planning and in the way we do work, to name but a few.
Yeah, but for some reason we don't talk about that stuff so much. Which is a bummer.
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Christ. I'm using interweb conventions so archaic that people have no idea what they are! I feel old.
the emphasis does seem to concentrate on the health effects rather than any blame
I think that can quite often depend on the medical professional you're dealing with at the time. There are some American studies (a couple are in the Journal of Obesity Research, 2003) which discovered that many GPs had underlying negative attitudes to their obese patients, associating them with laziness, stupidity, and worthlessness, and that obese patients' treatment for anything else (cancer screenings, say) was more likely to be delayed or put off, either because doctors were more likely to blame everything on obesity even if the illness was irrelevant to that condition (I have actually seen this happen to someone I know!), or because patients tried to avoid their doctors altogether and put off their own preventative medical care.
Obviously, that's really really really not good. If you dread going to the doctor, and the doctor thinks you suck because you're a fatty, yet because you're a fatty you *should* (oops, I did it again) be going to the doctor more than other people (I am kinda dubious about this point, but whatev), there's clearly a self-defeating spiral of crapola in the making...