NAAFA Community Voices Blog

Sharing thoughts and ideas from fat community.

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History, From the Newsletter NAAFA Admin History, From the Newsletter NAAFA Admin

NAAFA Chronicles 75: November 1986

CW: Discussion of intentional weight loss and weight loss surgery complications.

The NAAFA Chronicles reflect a piece of fat acceptance/fat activist history. In the November 1986 issue, you will find: discussion from a conference at the NY Academy of Science that diet-based approaches to permanent weight loss are "a disaster" and should be abandoned, updates on WLS procedures and more!

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History, From the Newsletter NAAFA Admin History, From the Newsletter NAAFA Admin

NAAFA Chronicles 58: NAAFA Achievement Awards, Weight Loss Surgery and the Meaning of Fat Activism

TRIGGER WARNING: SOME DISCUSSION OF WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY

NAAFA Chronicles 58: NAAFA Achievement Awards, Weight Loss Surgery and the Meaning of Fat Activism

The NAAFA Chronicles are a piece of size acceptance history and give you a look at what was happening in NAAFA during a specific period. This posting, we are looking at the Fall, 1983 issue of the NAAFA Newsletter that discusses a wide range of information related to fat community.

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