![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100325/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_avoiding_breast_cancer
But I would like to point out a few things to these researchers:
1. Fat women are less likely to get regular cancer screenings because they do not enjoy being called liars, lazy and stupid on a regular basis.
2. Their proposal relies on "staying thin." What if you were never thin in the first place? Are you just fucked? What IS thin anyway? Size 12, 10, 8, 0?
3. What does having the money to eat healthy, living in an area with access to healthy foods, and having the leisure time to exercise all imply? It implies that you have enough money to not live somewhere with obscene levels of pollution in the air, ground and water. You know, pollution that has an even stronger corrollary to things like cancer than being fat does. Somewhere it's safe to go for a walk.
Sigh.
But I would like to point out a few things to these researchers:
1. Fat women are less likely to get regular cancer screenings because they do not enjoy being called liars, lazy and stupid on a regular basis.
2. Their proposal relies on "staying thin." What if you were never thin in the first place? Are you just fucked? What IS thin anyway? Size 12, 10, 8, 0?
3. What does having the money to eat healthy, living in an area with access to healthy foods, and having the leisure time to exercise all imply? It implies that you have enough money to not live somewhere with obscene levels of pollution in the air, ground and water. You know, pollution that has an even stronger corrollary to things like cancer than being fat does. Somewhere it's safe to go for a walk.
Sigh.
