ISAA is looking for your support

The ISAA is looking for your support to help with their hosting fees. The deadline is middle of July and they need to raise $125. Donations can be made by PayPal and other methods listed below.

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BFB blog ends this month

Paul McAleer of Big Fat Blog announced this month the discontinuation of the sites blog. He will no longer be writing for it but the forums will continue. Other sites part of BFB will also be stopped.

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United Airlines new policy causes outrage

NAAFA has come out against the latest policy change from United Airlines. Their press release states that, "NAAFA believes United's policy change will add yet another way to discriminate against already marginalized fat people and be counter productive to United's and the airline industry's economic future". Indeed with the current economic climate, airlines will want to put as many people as possible on flights to increase profitability.

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NAAFA: United Airlines' Plans Discriminate Against People of Size

For Immediate Release

April 17, 2009

Oakland, CA - NAAFA, a civil rights organization working to end discrimination against people of size strongly urges United Airlines to reconsider their new discriminatory policy of charging passengers of size for two seats.

United Airlines has stated that they have implemented this policy as a result of receiving 700 complaints last year, which is equal to 1/1000th of 1% of the passengers traveling on their airline. (63,000,000 passengers traveled United in the same period).

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Another airline introduces policy to charge obese more

United Airlines new policy forces larger passengers who do not fit in to a single seat to purchase another seat if there is not a free one next to them. They will go as far as upgrades to business class or getting bumping to another flight. This goes in to force as of Wednesday.

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Acai berry blogs under investigation

Flooding my inbox for the last 2 or 3 weeks have been emails for an amazing weight loss product called Acai Berry. The blogs promoting this are currently under investigation by the FTC. California, Connecticut, New York and several other states are conducting investigations which have been instigated by a multitude of complaints.

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Naomi gets to model after serious stroke at 15

Naomi Durden suffered a stroke at the age of 15. Most Doctors had dismissed a full recovery but now she is looking at a modeling career. In 2004, with good health, Naomi suddenly collapsed.

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Another podcast availabe from the ISAA and PODWOM

The International Size Acceptance Association has a new podcast on their website, PODWOM. This edition of Podcast With Out Measure features an interview with Joan Poznick, producer or "are you smarter than a fifth grader" and good and healthy eating.

Check out the PODWOM site for many more podcasts and links to the PODWOM blog site and ISAA main site.

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Too much water kills woman on diet

Most diets recommend drinking water, however Jacqueline Henson from Huddersfield drank 4 litres within 2 hours and on the 14th of November last year she died. The inquest in to her death has revealed that while watching TV, she consumed two bottles containing two litres of water each. Later on she complained that her stomach was 'solid'.

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Obese parents to be paid to walk to school?

The obese in the UK may be paid to walk their children school, if new proposals go ahead. The Government is looking to invest $50 million to 'encourage' walking to school to help combat obesity. However the scheme may be open to abuse as few checks are planned to ensure that those in the scheme have actually walked.

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