From news@news.ox.ac.uk Mon Jul 8 11:10:40 1996 Received: from MIT.EDU (SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU [18.72.1.2]) by bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU (8.6.13/2.3JIK) with SMTP id LAA15669; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:10:37 -0400 Received: from eros.Britain.EU.net by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03588; Mon, 8 Jul 96 10:00:40 EDT Received: from oxmail3.ox.ac.uk by eros.britain.eu.net via JIPS with SMTP (PP) id ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:01:42 +0100 Received: from news.ox.ac.uk by oxmail3 with SMTP (PP) with ESMTP; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:01:34 +0100 Received: (from news@localhost) by news.ox.ac.uk (1.2/8.6.12) id PAA05001; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:01:31 +0100 To: soc-answers@britain.eu.net Path: news From: sharon@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Sharon Curtis) Newsgroups: soc.support.fat-acceptance,alt.support.big-folks,soc.answers,alt.answers,news.answers Subject: Big Folks Sports and Activities Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Followup-To: soc.support.fat-acceptance Date: 8 Jul 1996 14:01:30 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory Lines: 881 Message-Id: <4rr4bq$4s6@news.ox.ac.uk> Reply-To: sharon@comlab.oxford.ac.uk Nntp-Posting-Host: client36.comlab.ox.ac.uk Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) about sports and activities for large people. Discussion on these topics goes on in soc.support.fat-acceptance and alt.support.big-folks. Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU Archive-name: fat-acceptance-faq/sports Posting-Frequency: monthly to *.answers, bi-weekly to soc.support.fat-acceptance and alt.support.big-folks Last-modified: June 12th, 1996 Version: 1.0 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Sports and Activities for Big Folks This document contains information about exercise and fitness for fat people. It includes information about various sports and activities, and clothes and equipment for them, as they relate to fat people. To make it clear, this is not a missive from the lifestyle police trying to get all fat people to exercise, but a source of information for the fat folks who do want to exercise. If you don't find what you're looking for here, try one of the related FAQs (see question B1 for a complete list). In particular, try the Fitness Resources FAQ for a list of clothing, equipment et cetera. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes from Last Version [remainder of text deleted by folder-shrink.pl]