fatness

Their souls shall delight themselves in fatness, that is, in the riches and most grateful delights.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)

"Our finding that increased body fatness is associated with the earlier onset of puberty provides additional evidence that growing rates of obesity among children in this country may be contributing to the trend of early maturation in girls," said Dr. Joyce Lee, the lead author.

Study: Childhood Obesity Triggers Early Puberty | Impact Lab

How many vauntful attributes are there not in fatness, and how well saith the poet,

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

"All of the discourse about fatness is about pathologizing the individual," she said in an interview, also likening it to the eugenics movement.

Archive 2004-05-01

Canada spends far too much time obsessing over "fatness" - that is, on trying to slim down the obese (24 per cent of Canadians) and the merely overweight (37 per cent).

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed

Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. | clusterflock etc.

Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. | clusterflock

Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. | clusterflock

… Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

quote | clusterflock

Of course there are people for whom compulsive overeating is the source of their fatness, which is as serious a psychological issue as compulsive undereating, despite our cultural failure to regard it thus.

More Fat Princess

So I guess the writer personally observed 22 million children to determine that their fatness is the result of "bad eating habits" -- and indeed, that they're actually fat, as opposed to just growing children whose BMI ranking could change substantially in two weeks' time?

On Problems to Be Solved