Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Tag: health science

  • The despair of “obesity battlers”

    A few tweets I made this morning after seeing this lamentation on Radio NZ’s website: https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/669985558492397568 This is an idea I’ve had rattling around in my head for a while…

  • QOTD: Beware that latest “diet breakthrough”

    A must-read article at io9: I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here’s How. Other than those fibs, the study was 100 percent authentic. My colleagues and I…

  • The personal impact of fat-hatred

    I woke up yesterday looking forward to a relaxing fourth-day-of-a-long-weekend. And one of the first things I saw on Twitter was an article which panickedly declared that   And I…

  • QOTD: Linda Bacon on bariatric surgery

    Content note: surgery, complications, fat-hate Because completely coincidentally, a number of surgeons who perform bariatric surgery (“stomach stapling” to your unmedical layperson) are suddenly in the media clamouring for public…

  • QOTD: Diets don’t work

    From Anne G Mirer, MPH: Even with outcomes for which weight loss could be beneficial, the benefit will be temporary if and when the weight comes back. Quickly or slowly it will…