Fat Skunk Put on Diet

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal on September 30, 2009 at 1:07 pm

A skunk named Mr. Bumble was turned over to the RSPCA when his owners could no longer handle him. The skunk, who loves bacon sandwiches, weighed in at 14 pounds! Mr. Bumble is now at Tropiquaria Animal Park in Watchet, England and is on a weight-loss regimen.

Park owner Chris Noisier told the BBC: “We’re now working on dieting him down to what he should be and clearly bacon butties are not a normal part of a skunk’s diet in the wild.

“We’re putting him on the vegetarian option at the moment. It’s very much like a human weight watching issue.

“He is getting to meet lots of new people so there’s lots going on in his life and I suspect it’s making up for the lack of his old favourite food.”

Link -via Buzzfeed

 
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Fat Guy Shirts

Posted by Miss Cellania in Fashion on September 29, 2009 at 1:03 pm

Hmmm, this t-shirt outlet might not be the place to buy gifts for loved ones, but if you are a fat guy and proud of it, you’ll find a shirt to love. There are also shirts for big women and for women who love fat guys. Link -via Buzzfeed

 
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Sumo Wrestler Accused of Being Too "Podgy"

Posted by Alex in Funny, Sports on July 12, 2009 at 1:39 pm

Every sport has its bad boy (I’m looking at you, Ron Artest), but sumo bad boy Asashoryu Akinori is special.

After a string of bad behaviors including a brawl in a communal bath, being drunk in public and so on, the sumo champ is being accused of … being "podgy"!

Sumo bad boy Asashoryu, no stranger to public criticism, has been labelled "podgy" in a bizarre attack on the volatile Mongolian.

A popular former wrestler now working as a TV commentator accused Asashoryu of being flabby, even though his 150-kilogram frame is relatively small for the sport.

"He looks podgy," Shuhei Mainoumi told Japanese media. "He doesn’t look as buff. When I got flabby I hated being naked and showing off my body — he looks a bit like that."

Um, maybe this is my naiveté but I thought being podgy is the whole point of sumo wrestling? Link

 
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Personal Trainer's New Year's Resolution: Get Fat!

Posted by Alex in Medicine, Sports on May 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Most people’s New Year’s resolutions usually involve losing weight, but Australian underwear model and personal trainer Paul "PJ" James’s was the exact opposite: he wanted to become fat to better understand his obese gym clients!

Matt Johnston of the Herald Sun has the story:

PJ, 32, has already gone from 80kg to 100kg since making his New Year resolution to boost his flab.

"I have always found it easy to tell clients what to do to lose weight, but it’s hard to tell where a client is coming from and how they are feeling," he said.

"There are health risks, I won’t shy away from that. But I’m trying to do it as responsibly as possible, with regular blood pressure and health checks."

He said his body had tried to reject the fat at first, but he had worked hard to make sure he stacked on the kilos, and was now starting to notice people looking at him differently.

"Especially when I’m trying to train clients and they are doing sit-ups and I’m standing there with a massive gut," he said.

"My gut is pretty big. That’s where most of the weight seems to be going."

Link (Photo: Rebecca Michael) | More pics at Australia-Bodybuilding Blog

 
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Family Too Fat to Work Gets £22,000 a Year.

Posted by Queuebot in Medicine on March 19, 2009 at 9:18 pm

And they want more! The Chawners, who haven’t worked in 11 years, explains why they want, nay, deserve more money! (Photo: Bernard Ashton/Closer)

“What we get barely covers the bills and puts food on the table. It’s not our fault we can’t work. We deserve more.”

The family claim to spend £50 a week on food and consume 3,000 calories each a day. The recommended maximum intake is 2,000 for women and 2,500 for men.

“We have cereal for breakfast, bacon butties for lunch and microwave pies with mashed potato or chips for dinner,” Mrs Chawner told Closer magazine.

“All that healthy food, like fruit and veg, is too expensive. We’re fat because it’s in our genes. Our whole family is overweight,” she added.

Link – via tywkiwdbi

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"Fat Enzyme" Explains Why Some People Never Get Fat

Posted by Alex in Medicine on March 15, 2009 at 4:08 pm

Ever wonder why some people can eat anything they want and never gain weight? UCSF (my alma mater!) researcher Robert Farese and colleagues have found that it may just be the absence of a "fat enzyme":

The enzyme, MGAT2, determines whether dietary fat is used to generate energy or stored under the skin around the waist. The discovery of its role could be the key to preventing obesity, diabetes and heart disease

Scientists found that mice missing the gene for MGAT2 were able to feast on a high fat diet without becoming flabby or overweight.

Mice lacking MGAT2 were also protected against glucose intolerance – a precursor to diabetes – high cholesterol and a build up of fat in liver cells.

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Fat Cats Need Love Too

Posted by Jill Harness in Animal, Funny, Video Clips on February 27, 2009 at 7:05 pm

How you know your kitty needs to go on a diet.

Link Via GiggleSugar

Update 2/28/09: Let’s not forget our article on this very subject: Top 15 Amazingly Fat Cats

 
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Chubby Cars

Posted by Queuebot in Arts & Crafts, Car & Vehicle on January 27, 2009 at 6:40 pm

Artist Erwin Wurm made "obese" objects to comment on consumerism.

Austrian artist Erwin Wurm is a chubby chaser. Well, not so much a chubby chaser as a chubby maker.

And when we say "chubby," we mean "fleshy, volumnous sculptures."

Link - via geekologie

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How To Lose Belly Fat

Posted by Miss Cellania in Food & Drinks, Medicine on January 15, 2009 at 12:12 pm

To paraphrase Animal Farm, “some fats are more equal than others”.

While putting on weight in general can have negative effects on your health, abdominal weight gain (visceral fat) is particularly unhealthy. Since visceral fat is buried deep in your abdomen, it may seem like a difficult target for spot reduction. But this fat is actually quite sensitive to exercise and calorie reduction.

In addition to diet and exercise for reducing overall fat, eMedExpert Blog has five tips for reducing belly fat in particular. Link -Thanks, Karen!

 
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Plastic Surgeon Runs Car on Fat

Posted by Jill Harness in Everything Else, Fashion on December 29, 2008 at 8:50 pm

This is a story too gross to make up. A plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills is in trouble for modifying his engine to run on liposuctioned fat. Several ex-patients are suing Dr. Craig Bittner because they did not agree to having their excess used for his benefit. Apparently this isn’t the first time something like this has happened or else California wouldn’t already have a law on the books banning people from using human medical waste to power vehicles.

Whatever happened to appreciating the search for alternate fuel sources?

Link Via Consumerist, Photo by dotbenjamin [Flickr]

 
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