Is Fat the New Healthy?

Nicole Hughes January 22, 2008 | 9:53 pm EST

An increasing number of women bloggers who self-identify as “fat,” and who pride themselves on their larger figures, are taking the internet “fatosphere” by storm. These bloggers are challenging conventional medical knowledge about the relationship between obesity and poor health, stating that the American “obesity epidemic” is really just hysteria, and that not only are Americans the same size they’ve always been in the past, but that being overweight can actually be good for you. Want to know more? Check out some of their blogs at kateharding.net and therotund.com.