tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post4359987584160888945..comments2024-02-14T14:47:58.061-08:00Comments on Word Salad: It's All Their FaultColeslawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06813319585807128092noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-56472688927473611482012-01-09T07:17:14.755-08:002012-01-09T07:17:14.755-08:00Sorry, I know you got it, I was just still so anno...Sorry, I know you got it, I was just still so annoyed about the stupid article that I couldn't resist grumbling some more about it. "Smoke a pack of cigarettes a day," indeed-- and then they have the nerve to say they know what they're talking about now.Amaryllisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-8300774164798592032012-01-08T07:56:17.802-08:002012-01-08T07:56:17.802-08:00Well, that was my point, Amaryllis, and perhaps no...Well, that was my point, Amaryllis, and perhaps not made too clearly. By framing the problem in terms of errors <em>women</em> made, not errors that their medical advisors made, these nutritionists have poised themselves to make the same errors again:<br /><br />urging draconian measures on women without any actual evidence that those measures would work;<br /><br />posing as the experts who are not to be questioned;<br /><br />not asking themselves how grounded in evidence the advice they are about to give is.<br /><br />That's what happened in the 1950's, and that's the set of errors they refuse to learn from, because they are looking at the problem in the wrong way. IMO, anyway.Coleslawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06813319585807128092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-30996219512073947132012-01-05T19:49:06.456-08:002012-01-05T19:49:06.456-08:00I think I read a version of that same story in my ...I think I read a version of that same story in my local paper. And the story is about what "women" did, because it's also about what certain nutritionists want women to do now, in order to make fat people extinct:<br />- Obese women should not have babies. Period.<br />- Women should eat a healthy diet (whatever that means this week) and exercise to stay at their "ideal" weight for as long as a year, before even thinking of daring to get pregnant.<br />- All new mothers should take at least a year off work to breastfeed their babies.<br /><br />And, as one expert was quoted, "We need to be really aggressive about this." What she means by "aggressive," I shudder to think.<br /><br />Nor is there any guarantee that any of this would "work." Healthy diet, exercise, and breastfeeding are all good things, but obesity seems to be More Complicated Than That, and from what I understand as a non-scientist, the relationships between genetics, teratogenic factors, and social issues which may be related to an adult's body size, are still very poorly understood.<br /><br />But when all else fails, it's always safe to blame the mother.<br /><br />Huh. Sorry to ramble on, but that article really annoyed me.Amaryllisnoreply@blogger.com