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Faqt people are stupid3/28/2023 ![]() Some might argue that a politicized fat or fat positive character might initially seem far-fetched or even, perhaps, entitled or greedy. Where Mindy Lahiri, Titus Andromedon, and even Parks and Recreation’s Donna Meagle are fat characters shown as successful, funny, insecure, talented, loved, and flawed, their body size is rarely, if ever, mentioned – and certainly not as a positive or even neutral aspect of them. So while there’s clearly some forward momentum toward showing fat people to be fully realized, three-dimensional characters, I still yearn for a character whose fatness is part of them. ![]() This means that I still gravitate towards shows that feature people of color, fat people, queers, and femmes in my curation – and why shows like The Mindy Project and The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, for example, remain important to me.ĭespite their (many, many) shortcomings, outside of Mindy Lahiri and Titus Andromedon, there are so few other places I could see a fat femme of color portrayed at all, but much less as a legitimate love interest. Our culture has attempted to convince us that this is what humor and entertainment look like, and it can be hard to extract joy and humor in television’s other aspects.Ĭritical television engagement remains an important aspect of my personal-political practice, and my inclinations are, of course, colored by my own positionality as a fat, queer, femme of color. The lightness of sitcoms allows me to unwind and participate in this pastime without sacrificing my peace of mind.īut sitcom-watching can become frustrating when having to navigate the complicated experience of acknowledging the sadly inevitable racism, anti-Blackness, misogyny, transmisogyny, ableism, fat hatred, and other forms of dehumanization and subjugation. Television watching is a favorite pastime for folks around the world, and as much I can briefly enjoy the high-intensity dramas many of my peers engage with, I find they often become overwhelming and ultimately operate to stress me out when I mean to relax. It will make you look lean, and it can keep your brain keen.A person sits on a couch holding a glass in one hand, and the other hand to their forehead. The takeaways for us humans (our body fat shares very similar traits to that in mice): Burn fat. Researchers discovered that fatter mice had higher levels of interleukin 1, and that it secreted into the part of the brain that controls short- and long-term memory and spatial navigation (the hippocampus) from the bloodstream, and fitter mice with low levels of body fat had very low levels of interleukin 1 in their systems. The results showed that the lipo’ed mice performed better in the cognitive tests, while the results of the souped-up fat mice dropped. To make sure that the reduced cognitive abilities were body-fat related, they performed something similer to a liposuction on some mice and added fat pads to skinner mice and tested again. The fatter mice, however, took noticably longer to figure this out. Researchers tested the mice as follows: “We used a treadmill training paradigm in which mice were exposed to daily training sessions or an immobile belt, with motivation achieved by delivery of compressed air on noncompliance.” What they found was that the mice with less body fat quickly realized that it would be better to comply with the testing rather than get an express delivery of compressed air. Interleukin 1, which comes from fat cells causes inflammation. All the hard work you’re putting in the gym and kitchen to stay lean might be doing much more than ensuring you’re ready for beach season–it might keep your brain fit as well.Ī research study tested mice with varying levels of body fat has revealed that fatter mice are slower mentally because of the secretion of a chemical called interleukin 1 that seeps into the brain from the bloodstream.
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