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Fat Power: Whatever You Weigh is Right by Llewellyn Louderback (full text)

Hardcover , 214 pages Published 1970 by Hawthorn Books " In 1967 Llewellyn Louderback published an article in The Saturday Evening Post called 'More people should be FAT'. This was one of the first, if not the first, pieces of critical writing about fat in the popular media in the US. The article was read by Bill Fabrey, who contacted Louderback, and it helped spawn NAAFA and everything that followed. " Charlotte Cooper on her blog Obesity Time Bomb The First Wave of the Fat Acceptance Movement: "First wave activities consisted of isolated activists drawing attention to the dominant model of obesity and challenging it as only one of several possible models. During the early part of the 20th century, obesity was seen as detrimental to the community, via decreasing human efficiency, and that obese people interfere with labor productivity in the coastal areas of the United States. [11] This kind of political climate was the background of the fat acceptance movement, which originated in the late 1960s. Like other social movements from this period, the fat acceptance movement, initially known as "Fat Pride", "Fat Power", or "Fat Liberation", often consisted of people acting in an improm

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