Thursday, 18 October 2007
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Mission Statement Match-Up Game
I'm aiming to compare and contrast the mission statements of a variety of organizations that aim to serve people who are fat (or in their words are "suffering from obesity").
So, here's a written test of sorts: Can you name the organizations based on the mission statement included below? Just give it a guess.
Here are the organizations:
Keep track, and let me know in the comments how you did. And which ones you like best. And which ones are the most ironic.
The Adipositivity Project
American Obesity Association
Center for Health and Weight
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's State-Based Nutrition and Physical Activity Program
International Size Acceptance Association
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Obesity Action Coalition
The Obesity Society
Shaping America's Health
The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University
Try to match them to the following statements. Scroll down for answers and links to these organizations.
(If I had time I would try to add html targets, IYKWIM -- is that a real acronym?)1. To provide leadership for the development of science-based solutions to weight related health problems, with a focus on children and families.
2. To promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen.
3. To prevent and treat excess weight and obesity, and to facilitate a better scientific understanding of weight management.
4. To promote size acceptance and fight size discrimination throughout the world by means of advocacy and visible, lawful actions.
5. To act as an agent of change, move society to re-conceptualize obesity as a disease and to fashion appropriate strategies to deal with the epidemic.
6. Promotes research, education and advocacy to better understand, prevent, and treat obesity and improve the lives of those affected.
7. To conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being.8. Works to eliminate discrimination based on body size and provide fat people with the tools for self-empowerment through public education, advocacy, and member support.
9. To improve the world’s diet, prevent obesity, and reduce weight stigma through creative connections between science and public policy, targeted research, frank dialogue among key constituents, and a commitment to real change.
10. To build lasting and comprehensive efforts to address obesity and other chronic diseases through a variety of nutrition and physical activity strategies.11. To elevate and empower those affected by obesity through education, advocacy and support.
Answers:
1) Center for Health and Weight4) International Size Acceptance Association
5) American Obesity Association
6) The Obesity Society (same as the above, interestingly)
7) Center for Science in the Public Interest
8) National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
9) The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University
10) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's State-Based Nutrition and Physical Activity Program
I have to get going with my day, but caveat emptor, pay attention to which of these organizations are grassroots, which are academic institutions, and which are funded primarily by industry.
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Brilliant post!
Reminds us that anti-fat groups aren't comfortable just coming out and being anti-fat. This seeming opportunity, though, is blunted by the damage they do to the language of fatness by distorting the meaning of a Fat Acceptance vocabulary. Some tells, though. Fat positive groups were the only ones to use the word "fat". Fat negative groups were the only ones to use "obesity". They may try to speak in code, but that doesn't mean we don't have a decoder ring.
I will say, though, what in the world possessed ISAA to point out that their actions would be lawful in their mission statement? Was their some debate about using illegal methods to promote Size Acceptance or was that meant as some slap at some other activists they felt weren't being lawful?
Thanks, Kell and BStu for your comments!
I would say there's a continuum here -- not only anti-fat and pro-fat acceptance, but some that are pro-fat people, genuinely concerned about health, but not exactly fat acceptance. Center for Health and Weight comes to mind, which has Joanne Ikeda, MA, RD and Pat Lyons, RN, MA, on the steering committee, both advocates of sane health policy for fat people.
Hi, WRT2! Got here from Shapely Prose, and couldn’t resist your challenge.
I’m not American, so I haven’t come across any of these mission statements – most of the organisations mentioned I do know or at least have heard of and can put into the right corner of the fat field (or at least I thought so!) Here’s my results: Officially, I got one right, the Adipositivity Project – which I think had the easiest to link mission statement. I kinda count as "right" that I mixed up NAAFA and ISAA, they’re kind of the same I guess, but one’s American, the other one’s international ... I also had three connections between position 3, 5 and 6 – these could be interchangeable as well, I felt. So, between those three, there was another one "right". Kinda. The rest of my guesses was just plain wrong! So, what I found interesting about this "test" is that I could point at the ones that are size positive. The rest not so much – although I did see these were obviously not about fat acceptance. Obviously, these fight-the-epidemic-organisations are either all the same (and could therefore simply merge to one annoying org to spill out propaganda about fat – sorry, obesityHi Dutchy,
Thanks for playing!!!
The mission statement you cited as "to elevate and empower..." is actually for the Obesity Action Coalition, whose real mission, apparently, is to lobby for more insurance coverage for WLS. The CDC's state-based physical activity and nutrition mission is: "To build lasting and comprehensive efforts to address obesity and other chronic diseases through a variety of nutrition and physical activity strategies."
What do y'all think of the phrase "address obesity?" Or "and other chronic diseases?" "comprehensive efforts" You might feel it doesn't need "addressing. But if if read, "To build lasting and comprehensive efforts to address chronic diseases through a variety of nutrition and physical activity strategies" that doesn't sound so bad to me -- sounds like what I would want CDC to be doing.
O sorry, got ik all mixed up!
That’s sick, to "elevate and empower" people by removing parts of their digestive system (don’t mean to offend anyone) to make them less than they were (literaly).
Ah, too bad about the CDC. I had such high hopes – that’s probably why I mixed them up in the first place. Yeah, love the "chronic disease" thing. Coz you know, I feel sooooo sick all the time (not). As for "adressing obesity", it only gets me thinking I want to be left alone! Please *don’t* adress me.Your essay is good! Photograph good-looking! Obviously. Simple language, concise blog! Another kind of style! I like! Thank you for sharing! I wish you good luck!
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