Obesity
America’s Fattest Presidents
A 2013 article at this link ranks the weightiest of our leaders. Of course, former-President Trump is not included. This official 2020 health report puts him at 244 pounds, making him, by my calculations, Number Three.Number Two, Grover Cleveland, tried many times to lose. His personal physician, Dr. John Gibbs, was fond of a new German treatment.
Read more in this book, which is partially available via Google Books.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Mar 19, 2022 -
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Category: Government, Patent Medicines, Nostrums and Snake Oil, Nineteenth Century, Twenty-first Century, Obesity
The Obesity of Emperor Maximus
The things you learn from perusing old comics!
Source (page 19).
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 04, 2019 -
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Category: Addictions, Eating, Body, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical, Obesity, History, Historical Figure
Khrushchev vs. Lachaise
2018 NOTE: Here is the basis for the ongoing series whose latest entry is today.
Original article behind CHICAGO TRIBUNE paywall.
Upon reading this article, I immediately wondered what statue was at the center of the controversy. Finding out took a little google-fu. Eventually, I hit upon the complete catalogue of works shown, in PDF form. Below is the relevant section.
I did not even bother to google any of the other statues after seeing Gaston Lachaise's "Standing Woman."
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 12, 2018 -
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Category: Art, Criticism and Reviews, 1950s, Russia, Obesity
Chubbettes
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 02, 2014 -
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Category: Fashion, Advertising, Children, 1950s, Obesity
Miz Caramel Vixen: Giantess Car Crush Video
Whatever gets you off, I guess.....
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jun 28, 2014 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Public Humiliation, Performance Art, Infantilism, Obesity
Playking Athletic Belt
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Wow, a sports girdle for fat boys! And in the last panel, it seems to have had the power to change Fatty's hair color as well!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jun 09, 2014 -
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Category: Sports, Children, 1950s, Obesity
The Big Ballet
One only hopes that the current ill will towards Russia does not prevent the 2014 tour of The Big Ballet.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 28, 2014 -
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Category: Dance, Russia, Obesity
Miss Fat and Beautiful
Posted By: Paul - Tue Feb 25, 2014 -
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Category: Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Contests, Races and Other Competitions, 1960s, Europe, Obesity
Perfection Is Not Timeless
Miss Elsie Scheel was proclaimed the perfect female specimen in a 1912 New York Times piece. At 5'7" and 171 pounds, how far from ideal would she be proclaimed to be today? Perhaps some of the hysterics over the 'obesity epidemic' are a matter of perspective and cultural norms. On the other hand, she was a blue eyed blonde, so that preference holds.
Posted By: patty - Sun Dec 30, 2012 -
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Category: Obesity
How To Lose Weight in 60 Seconds
Posted By: Paul - Wed Aug 08, 2012 -
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Category: Body Modifications, Stop-motion Animation, Obesity
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