Posts Tagged ‘fat’
Why must we cure fat and happy pets? Obie the dog gets isoflavones and a treadmill
WE’VE met fat and happy dog Alfie, “rescued” by the RSPCA and put on a diet. Now we meet Obie, a five-year-old, 77-pound daschund from Portland, Oregon.
Nora Vanatta says:
“Ageing owners with failing health were simply loving him with food. They just couldn’t say no to those big brown eyes.”
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Posted: 11th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
‘Fat bloke’s cardboard cut-out cloning experiment’ (video)
ANY more like you at home?
Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Fat people offered chance to be burned to death or drowned
THE Times reports that if all the fat of the world submitted to liposuction the harvested fat would “fill a lake the size of Derwent Water”. Burning the fat would produce the same power as a nuclear power station for 20 years. Know that North Americans make up just 6 per cent of the world’s population, but boast a third of humanity’s fat reserves.
So, fatty, what’s it to be, drowning or burning? Come on, the skinny are waiting for an answer?
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Posted: 18th, June 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Dead woman’s fat sets crematorium on fire
WHEN a large women was cremated in Graz, Austria, her fat blocked an air filter causing the entire venue to burn to the ground.
The woman, who weighed, 440-pounds, overheated the crematorium’s filter system.
Former Graz city fire chief Otto Widetschek says that crematoria need to be adapted to melt the fat:
“In Switzerland, there is now a special crematorium for XXL-bodies.”
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Posted: 7th, June 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Scientists invent glasses that make people shrink
IN the 1980s, the Japanese grew rich on making things smaller. This process was mostly confined to electronic gadgets and poems. But now the country’s boffins are shrinking people. Scientists at University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Information Science and Technology have invented goggles athat trick the wearer into thinking the piece of food on the end of their fork, chopsticks or fingers is larger than it really is.
The goggles are linked to a computer screen that makes the food appear as much as 50 percent larger.
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Posted: 6th, June 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
D’Angelo lives and dies by the six-pack – when men gets body issues
D’ANGELO, the singer formerly known as Michael Eugene Archer, has issues. Amy Wallace reports on what happens when talent turns himself into a himbo and loses his devotion to the prime rib:
D’Angelo felt tortured, Questlove says, by the pressure to give the audience what it wanted. Worried that he didn’t look as cut as he did in the video, he’d delay shows to do stomach crunches. He’d often give in, peeling off his shirt, but he resented being reduced to that. Wasn’t he an artist? Couldn’t the audience hear the power of his music and value him for that? He would explode, Questlove recalls, and throw things. Sometimes he’d have to be coaxed not to cancel shows altogether. When I ask D about this, he downplays his suffering. Watching him pull hard on another Newport, I realize that he finds it far easier to confess his addictions than his insecurities about his corporeal self. Self-destructing with a coke spoon—while ill-advised—has a badass edge. Fretting over what Questlove has called “some Kate Moss shit” seems anything but manly…
A shaven chest owned by man who spends hours in the gym working out in front of a mirror was once considers less than manly…
Posted: 2nd, June 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comment
Vintage weight-gain adverts – when fat was fulfilling
FAT. The Government, the press and the fat hate it. Once upon a time, the fuller figure was a thing of desire. We’ve got a gallery of vintage weight gain adverts for you to enjoy. Scoff it up. Eat for happiness:
Posted: 2nd, June 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comment
Georgia Davis – photos of Britain’s fattest teenager (63 stone)
GEORGIA Davis is so gargantuan that when she suffered as seizure the fire brigade, scaffolding engineers and medics had to rip down part of her mum’s home in Aberdare, South Wales, to treat her. Georgia Davis is 19. She weighs an estimated 63 stone. Rescue worked made a 10ft squre hole in her mum’s home through which they extracted Miss Davis with a crane before rolling her onto a ramp. She was then lowered onto a massive stretcher.
Georgia Davis now at a hospital in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. She is her mother’s registered carer. Says Lesley Davis, for it is she:
“There’s a lot going on right now.”
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Obese man pickets restaurant over failed all-you-can-eat deal
CAN you be too fat to eat? Bill Wisth weighs 350 pounds. He is six-feet-six-inches tall. He likes to eat. So, when a Wisconsin’s Chuck’s fish fry restaurant promoted its all-you-can-eat dinner, he went in sat down, and made ready to eat enough for the 5,000 and leave room for a post-prandial wafer. After pushing 12 pieces into his pie hole, the Chuck’s asked Bill to leave. They sent him home with eight more chunks of fried fish. But Bill wanted more. And then he wanted vengeance. Wisth says he is victim of false advertising. He says he never got to eat all he could. To make his point, he’s taken to picketing the place.
Chuck’s say he has form, and a tab. Bill says Chuck’s does a really great deep-pan pizza (like this one?). The Japanese fisherman says that should Bill tumble into the pizza, they will use extreme prejudice to harpoon him out…
Posted: 17th, May 2012 | In: The Consumer | Comment
Smoking does not cost the NHS money: nor does obesity
SMOKING does not cost the NHS money: nor does obesity. Nor even does booze. So we can tell the health wowsers to bugger off the next time they use that argument upon us.
Read: The Killer Shisha tobacco scaremongering blows up in smoke.
Now it is true that all three impose costs upon the people that do it. Shorter lives for a start. But it’s also true that something that people do voluntarily must also provide benefits to them: and it’s up to each individual to decide which risks they want to take for which benefit.
And it’s that thing about shorter lives which is why the booze, tabs and rolls of sweaty fat don’t increase costs to the NHS. It’s the healthy people who live long enough to spend 5 years drooling into their bibs as they fade away from Alzheimers:
“Until age 56 annual health expenditure was highest for obese people. At older ages, smokers incurred higher costs. Because of differences in life expectancy, however, lifetime health expenditure was highest among healthy-living people and lowest for smokers. Obese individuals held an intermediate position. Alternative values of epidemiologic parameters and cost definitions did not alter these conclusions.”
The lifetime costs were in Euros:
Healthy: 281,000
Obese: 250,000
Smokers: 220,000
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Tricks with fat people – the vanishing pencil
YOU’LL miss the fat people when they’ve all be culled with the smokers or made thin. Here’s what only fat people can do – the vanishing pencil:
Posted: 2nd, March 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Lover Finds Dead Cat Beneath Fat Woman’s Bottom
AMANDA Simmons, aka Mandy Mountain, of Charleston, West Virginia, weighs 55stones. She says that when her lover went to inspect her chub at close quarters he spotted a cat (avoid obvious joke – ed). The cat was dead. Mandy had sat on it.
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Posted: 12th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (16)
Kelly Osbourne Calls Christina Aguilera ‘Fat’ While Everyone Bites Knuckles
REMEMBER when Kelly Osbourne was some kind of (self proclaimed) voice for the disaffected kids of the world. Y’know, those kids who were a bit different or those that got bullied for being fat or ugly.
Well, now she’s calling Christina Aguilera ‘fat’.
It seems everyone has got it in for Xtina at the moment (Christ knows why. Surely people aren’t still irked by her fluffing of the American National Anthem at the Super Bowl?) with Joan Rivers noting that Aguilera looked “stuffed into” a little black dress… and now Osbourne is throwing her *ahem* weight around.
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Posted: 4th, August 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Tom Ford Sucks Up To China By Saying Chinese Shoppers Are ‘All Slim’: British and Americans All Fat
TOM Ford tells Time Out Hong Kong that he is not fan of the big booty boys and gels:
“Americans are too fat. And in London they are starting to get fat too. So I have to say that if we have to talk about race system and nationalism, I find it refreshing that everyone [who is] Chinese is slim.”
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Posted: 8th, July 2011 | In: Celebrities | Comment
War On Fat: Daily Mail Says Welsh People Are Putting Chips In Milk Bottles
DID you know that a six your old had stroke brought on by “the obesity epidemic fuelled by parents feeding children pureed junk food“. (And that’s not the best quote – read on for the best Quote Of The Year).
The busy “Daily Mail Reporter” has facts:
An epidemic of obesity is leading to babies being treated in hospital for weight problems – and children as young as six are suffering strokes.
And:
Some parents encourage children to eat junk food, seeing a family excursion to a pizza parlour or hamburger restaurant as a treat.
A hamburger is treat? Well, yes. That’s good isn’t it?
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Fat Is Contagious, Says Social Science
JONAH Lehrer says fat is contagious. You can catch fat from the fat. The fat are carriers. He’s read the science that says that when we see fat people we eat more:
[T]his research begins to explain how obesity moves through a social network. It turns out that the habits of others shape our own, that we unconsciously regress to the dietary norms around us. Because we’re not particularly good at noticing when we’re sated and full – the stomach is a crude sensory organ – we rely on all sorts of external cues to tell us how much to eat. Many of these cues from other people, which is why our eating habits are so contagious.
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The Truth About Fat British Women
DID you know that UK women are more likely than men to weigh over 30st?
It’s says so in a study that the Sun highlights on its front page.
Of course, what with there only being two sexes, unless by some mad fluke there are the same number of 30-stone-plus men as there are women, one gender will always be ahead in the race to bulk up and stick two gingers up to that austerity-led belt tightening.
And, then, there are more women than men living in the UK, so the chances of their being more 30-stone women than 30-stone men is increased.
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Posted: 4th, February 2011 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Marie Claire Let Maura Kelly Abuse Fat People For Fame And Web Traffic
ROLL over Jan Moir – Maura Kelly is making her bid to become the world’s most odious, pisspoor columnist in her attack on fat people for Marie Claire.
We’ll deliver the best bits of an article that Kelly’s editor allowed to be published.
But before that a few words about Dear Maura Kelly, who realises that so long as you create a name for yourself, your publication will employ you:
Although she’s in her thirties, she’s never been in love before — and has started to wonder if she ever will be. She’s decided to start making dating her job if it’s ever going to happen. Hence, this blog.
Her lack of love is now her livelihood. What else do we know about Dear Maura Kelly?
She rides her vintage Raleigh as often as possible – usually wearing heels, and always wearing her helmet. (She will not be a fashion victim!) Some of the things she loves: indie rock, peanut butter, Fellini films, the Brooklyn Bridge, running (slowly) in Prospect Park (always wearing New Balance sneakers) and The Brothers Karamazov. And definitely her friends, too; her tight circle includes a fashion designer, a hard news journalist, a couple magazine editors, a bike messenger-turned-lawyer, a professor of philosophy and an aspiring screenwriter.
Because Maura Kelly has no-one special to share her life with, she will share it with you, her imaginary friends. (If you want to be real friend and make the list you need a job Maura thinks will reflect well on her, like a vivisectionist or a jihadi who retained as an architect.)
Dear Maura Kelly has been invited to write on a sitcom called Mike & Molly. It’s about two lovers who meet at Overeaters Anonymous. Dear Maura hasn’t seen the show but is still able to review it. It’s called “Should Fatties Get a Room?”
The other day, my editor asked me, “Do you really think people feel uncomfortable when they see overweight people making out on television?” Because I can be kind of clueless — I’m not much of a TV person — I had no idea what she was talking about…
Kelly read about the show. Because Kelly is a proper journalist who does her research.
My initial response was: Hmm, being overweight is one thing — those people are downright obese! And while I think our country’s obsession with physical perfection is unhealthy, I also think it’s at least equally crazy, albeit in the other direction, to be implicitly promoting obesity! Yes, anorexia is sick, but at least some slim models are simply naturally skinny. No one who is as fat as Mike and Molly can be healthy.
Dear Maura Kelly is on a roll, so to speak:
And obesity is costing our country far more in terms of all the related health problems we are paying for, by way of our insurance, than any other health problem, even cancer.
The war on the fat is a big deal in the UK, too. In the country that bangs on about equal opportunities, the fat are still fair game for abuse.
So anyway, yes, I think I’d be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other … because I’d be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything. To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room — just like I’d find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroine addict slumping in a chair.
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Posted: 27th, October 2010 | In: Key Posts, Reviews | Comments (3)
Estonian Clinic Uses Real Life Before And After Women: Fat Is Bad
THOSE before and after adverts just got fleshier and bonier. In Estonia, this health clinic has emplyed two women – one before and one after – to hand out leaflets.
In case you failed to realise that thin in better, the chubbier model has “BEFORE” written on her stomach. Stick the message on her chest and see which one men prefer…
Posted: 15th, October 2010 | In: The Consumer | Comment (1)
Berkshire Woman Hazel Kent Wins Gastric Bypass Case
HAZEL Kent wanted a gastric bypass on the NHS. The NHS said no. Her local primary care trust (PCT) in Bracknell, Berkshire refused to treat her.
Mrs Kent, 40, and a mother of three, then sought a judicial review (which often involves human rights issues and planning decisions). She weighed 16 stone.
She had had a band fitted before. In September 2001 she paid for the operation. Her weight fell from 17-and-a-half stone to 10 stone. But just over two years later the gastric band came loose and had to be removed.
Mrs Kent gained weight. So she asked the NHS to give her a new band, which cost between £8,000 and £15,000 each time.
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Oshine The Orangutan Is The Fattest Ginger In Britain
MEET Oshine, the fattest organutan in all of the Britain. Quite some claim, there, readers.
Oshine has been living as pet in South Africa for the past 13 years. She weighs 100kg, which is, apparently twice what human beings believe she should weigh.
Now Oshine is in the UK, a place where the fat are hated – and the hairy, ginger and fat despised, feared and pitied.
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Posted: 9th, September 2010 | In: Reviews | Comments (3)
Derbyshire Man Too Fat To Work In Case He Falls On Colleagues
BARRY Fowers, of Hatton, Derbyshire, can’t work in case he falls on a colleague and injures them.
Mr Fowers, 51, weighs 30 stone.
Until last October, he worked as an assembler fitter for a Burton-based company.
Says he:
“Because I was having a lot of time off for medical reasons, I was edged towards voluntary redundancy.”
His wife, Shirley, vice-chairman of Hatton Parish Council, adds:
“One of the main reasons he volunteered to take the pay-off was because he was classed as a potential danger to himself. Also, he was a potential risk to his work colleagues in case he fell on them.”
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Posted: 7th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Jon Venables In Put On A High Fat Diet: Pictures
JON Venables is worse than a child killing paedophile. He’s a FAT child killing paedophile. In the tabloids, Venables’ fatness may well be the worst of this crimes. The Sun says:
TWISTED Jon Venables has ballooned to almost 18 stone while feasting on snacks in jail. The killer of two-year-old James Bulger has been spending £40 a week on his binges.
Or as the Sun told us in June:
CHUBBY Jon Venables has been put on a low-fat diet and exercise regime by jail chiefs.
That low-fat diet is said to include “26 choc bars, 20 bags of crisps and six packets of biscuits”.
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Posted: 27th, July 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Dead Fat Man Gets Lipo To Fit In Coffin
SO fat is Cristian Capatanescu, 54, that he can’t get into his coffin. One remedy would be to get a bigger coffin and invite the country’s Olympic weightlifters to carry him.
But in Romania the move is to drain some of Capatanescu’s fat with liposuction.
When milked, half of him can be slipped into a regular-sized coffin and the other half cremated, perhaps at branch of Bucarest Fried Chicken.
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Posted: 16th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment
