Spontaneous Impressions

I have to wonder, while i continue to read posts about the various news articles about fat that misrepresent, twist, and skew their stories about research concerning fat. I’m sure everyone in the fatosphere has already heard and read the much talked about article about how growth spurts “cause” obesity, and if you visit junkfoodscience seen Sandy’s post about how the study in question wasn’t even done on humans!

What happened to responsible, ethical journalism… Was it ever there?  Is the need for readership the only strive, or is the media concerned with the quality and factuality of accurate reporting. Did this so called journalist stop to think of the further panic that such a statement would make, leading many unsuspecting histeria ridden parents to not adequatley feed their children? To teens so consumed with self-image turn to eating disorders and unhealthy relationships with food…  Did they take into consideration the fall out of writing in a way in which to decieve readers that this study was human related?

I haven’t read the article myself, but way too many times have i seen irressponsible reporting being done in the name of anti-obesity.

I just wish that our societies would stop and think about their actions for once, and actually critically look at what’s being sad. I’m sick of my mother rolling her eyes at me when i cite new studies that show that fat people have less severe strokes and survive them more often than our skinny counterparts. I’m sick of being accused of encouring being to become overweight… I’m not. What i am trying to encourage is being ok with being fat, or thin, or “normal”. It’s about knowing that you were built the way you were and being ok with it. With living up to your standards and not someone else’s. It’s about feeling good in your own skin because let’s face it, it’s all we have.

Society’s beauty standards will change, and everything else changes, but we ourselves in physical form have only one body and it’s about accepting and being happy with it.

It’s also seeing and acknowledging that the media doesn’t have our interest at heart. They’re more concerned with money as is much these days. I wonder when i have kids how will i go about teaching them to think critically. How do you teach that there is value in the media, but to take it with a grain of salt, and to see for yourself if what they’re saying is accurate.

Media should be interested in factual stories, giving the reader all the facts, and not their version. It should be impartial unless it’s clearly told that it’s an opinion piece.