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New Eating Disorders Feed and Group
2008-04-30 15:41:00 The fabulous FatFu (of the famed Notes from the Fatosphere feed), has helped me set up a eating disorders feed I call the Eating Disorders Digest. I’ve also set up a Yahoo! Group called Eating Disorder Studies for activists at all levels to discuss the medical, social, and cultural studies on eating disorders, and ... More About: Feed
Follow the money trail
2008-04-29 22:03:00 This originally arose as a comment to the discussion over at Shapely Prose on the recent study which claims you cannot be fat and fit. There’s another dedicated discussion on the subject at Feed Me!. I decided to repost my comments here, too. The study in question, of course, is this one referenced in ... More About: Health , Money , Nutrition , Trail
The Body Electric
2008-04-29 19:39:00 Responsible car owners practice routine and good maintenance measures. We take our cars in to the shop when the check engine light appears or when we hear a ping in the engine. We keep our cars filled with the fuel it needs to function and get its oil changed regularly. We try to avoid those things that will damage the body work or facade of our cars. We take pride in our cars and treat them like the valuable commodities they are. Can the same be said of how we treat our bodies? More About: Body , The Body , Electric
10 Questions for Kristin ?Lou? Herout
2008-04-28 19:04:00 ?Voluptuous women needed… for student photography project (no worries, no nudity). If you?re in your 20?s, got real booty, boobs or hips, please help me out!? So read an advertisement posted by communication graduate student Kristin ?Lou? Herout last fall throughout buildings on her Northern Illinois University campus. The 23-year-old graduate student and ... More About: Questions
Teen Vogue removes pseudo pro-ana forum
2008-04-25 23:36:00 In my case for pro-ana/mia sites, I mentioned the pseudo pro-ana boards over at Teen Vogue ’s messageboard. The magazine, of course, is owned by media mogul Condé Nast. The board carries the well-meaning title of “Fitness,” but as I, Jezebel and now Teen Vogue ’s editors have realized, it’s devolved into a forum where ... More About: Forum
One girl at a time: Changing aspirations, instilling confidence
2008-04-25 16:11:00 I’ve always liked Christina Ricci as an actress, and after reading a Blackbook interview with her, I like her as a woman, too. Says Christina: ?I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified. It?s like the highest form of flattery for teenage girls. The culture we live in right now seems ... More About: Time , Girl , Changing , Confidence
Rethinking fat stereotypes
2008-04-24 17:44:00 Fatness isn?t always caused by inactivity and a scarfing down of Twinkies. As anyone who has struggled with weight will attest, weight loss and gain aren?t always simple matters of ?choice.? Here are some other reasons besides gluttony and sloth why one may be fat. More About: Personal , Health , Diets , Stereotypes , Nutrition
Fitness for all, not just fat people
2008-04-23 20:08:00 When I began making a concerted effort to deal with my gym phobia two months ago and become more active, my litmus was not weight loss or even inches lost. No, my goal was far less common: To run up the three and a half flights of stairs to my graduate class without huffing ... More About: Health , Fitness , People , Exercise
Self Magazine not so selfless
2008-04-22 17:20:00 Sixty-five percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 45 report having disordered eating behaviors, according to the results of a new survey by SELF Magazine in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An additional 10 percent of women report symptoms consistent with eating disorders such as anorexia, ... More About: Diets , Eating Disorders
The Weekly Digest: Related topics in the news
2008-04-22 16:33:00 I’ve got lots of blog post ideas and not enough time to write them. Here’s a few quick hits of related topics in the news. A new study reveals the obvious: one’s social environment affects eating disorder development. A study of high school students showed a small, but significant clustering effect in ... More About: News , Health , In the News , Pop Culture , The News
Let them eat cake!
2008-04-20 20:28:00 About a year of so before I began the diet that would turn into an eating disorder, I took the introductory Wilton cake decorating classes at a local crafts store. I have never been particularly domestic, but the idea of cake decorating really appealed to my artistic side. With visions of iced roses ... More About: Cake
Easy money
2008-04-19 17:52:00 I have come to the conclusion that it takes no skill whatsoever to label yourself a public relations firm and begin collecting money in exchange for shoddy service and poorly-written articles. I encounter PR folks regularly as a journalist. I get press releases about subjects that have absolutely nothing to do with what ... More About: Money , Easy
Mental health talk on NPR?s TOTN
2008-04-17 20:50:00 NPR’s Talk of the Nation is currently addressing the issue of mental health services on college campuses in the wake of the Virginia Tech shooting (audio available later this evening). They’re continuing the conversation tomorrow on how colleges and others can identify and help those with mental health issues. With estimates placing some ... More About: Health , Mental , Mental Health , Eating Disorders
Going once? going twice? survey reminder
2008-04-17 15:42:00 The feedback to my survey for bloggers who write about eating disorders has been fantastic. I’ve had about 270 people take the survey, although not all completed it. The survey is rather long - 40 questions - but very few of the questions are fill in the blank so I think you can ... More About: Survey , Reminder
Joy and sorrow, an anecdote
2008-04-16 18:08:00 My university?s wellness center is celebrating this week as Body Acceptance Week. While perusing the center?s website, I happened across its Dimensions of Wellness. I?ve always insisted mental health ought be considered in our perception of health and wellness, but the center includes other aspects that I and too many others may not ... More About: Eating Disorders , Sorrow
Attention Brit women with eating disorders
2008-04-16 14:00:00 Taken from the British eating disorder organization b-eat’s website: The British TV production company betty is making a one hour documentary on eating disorders as part of the BBC Learning campaign about body image & mental health issues. The film will seek to raise awareness that anorexia and bulimia are not conditions that just affect teenage girls. ... More About: Women , Eating Disorders , Disorders , Eating , Attention
Have an eating disorder? Try our starvation diet!
2008-04-15 16:40:00 Another diet company has joined the ranks of discredited and disreputable diet mongerers: LighterLife. If you remember, diet book author Kevin Trudeau recently came under Federal Trade Commission crosshairs and diet-monger Heidi Diaz, founder of the much-aligned diet scam Kimkin’s, has also been in court to answer claims of false advertising. And in January, the ... More About: Diets , Diet , Eating
More on Chicago Tribune nonsense
2008-04-14 01:17:00 Another update to a troubling issue I blogged about Friday, that being the very serious suggestion by Chicago Tribune writer Julie Deardorff that more Americans ought to develop an eating disorder. To save scrolling, Deardorff dismisses the eating disorder orthorexia as a term coined by people who ?feel guilty that they aren?t eating better ... More About: Nonsense , Chicago Tribune
More on the fat discrimination study
2008-04-13 23:59:00 Time picked up on the recent Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity study in which it was revealed that weight discrimination is more prevalent than discrimination based on sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity, physical disability and religious beliefs - article here. “If a person perceives he is being discriminated against,” said study co-author Tatiana ... More About: Study , Discrimination
Chicago Tribune: We should all be orthorexics
2008-04-11 18:26:00 Every so often the media makes a big deal of certain eating disorders which have been commonplace for decades. Several months ago, diabulimia was the topic du jour, then it was drunkorexia and now it seems to be orthorexia. According to the blog EWHAED, 20/20 has expressed interest in doing a segment on ... More About: Health , Chicago , Eating Disorders , Chicago Tribune , Tribune
The French take on anorexia
2008-04-10 14:00:00 The Associated Press reports that French fashion industry representatives have signed a government-backed charter pledging not to encourage eating disorders and to promote healthy body images. The government-backed document asks signatories to promote “a diversity of body representations” and “not to show images of people that could help promote a model of extreme thinness.” While ... More About: Anorexia , Eating Disorders , The French
Miss Plus Size Elite slams fatfighter MeMe Roth
2008-04-09 21:55:00 Hoorah to Miss Plus Size Elite Jenna Vaught! The blonde bombshell dropped a bombshell of her own on reining anti-obesity zealot MeMe Roth on The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet (h/t to Joy Nash). Vaught appeared with the same guests I appeared with back in January, Roth and Dr. Jennifer Ashton. I ... More About: Meme
Health tips for people with an eating disorder
2008-04-09 19:21:00 My co-blogger Charlynn over at the Disordered Times recently discovered she has osteopenia, a precursor to osteoporosis, as the result of her eating disorder. She is 26 years old and she has the bones of a woman more than twice her age. Charlynn gave some great advice to others who may also be ... More About: Health , People , Tips , Eating Disorders , Eating
How again is being fat socially acceptable?
2008-04-08 21:11:00 Being fat isn?t a piece of cake regardless if you?re a man or a woman. But it seems as if fat women have a heavier load to bear. This is not to say that fat men do not suffer size discrimination ? they do, but at much higher weights than women do. I ...
Marya Hornbacher discusses new memoir
2008-04-08 18:21:00 If you missed the Diane Rehm show this morning, Marya Hornbacher was on the second hour discussing her new book, Madness: A Bipolar Life. Hornbacher, of course, is the author of the widely acclaimed eating disorder memoir Wasted and later authored a great fiction novel, too. From Publisher’s Weekly: Hornbacher, who detailed her struggle with bulimia ... More About: Book Reviews , Memoir
She who orders the smallest salad ?wins?
2008-04-07 16:50:00 I admit it ? I like to read the gossip scoops on MSNBC brimming with the latest Britney Spears debacle or rumor of an impending George Clooney marriage. But in reading about the recent lunch of pals Katie Holmes and Victoria Beckham, I have to wonder if sharing the details of their food choices ... More About: Eating Disorders , Salad , Orders , Wins
The tyranny of (airbrushed) perfection
2008-04-06 21:09:00 Readers here are probably familiar with the awful and scary Faith Hill photoshopping controversy that circulated the blogosphere recently. And of course, many of us have seen Dove’s Evolution video, which chronicles the transformation of an ordinarily pretty woman to billboard supermodel in under 60 seconds. But you’d think a celebrity like Keira ... More About: Fashion , Tyranny , Eating Disorders , Perfection
Perspective
2008-04-04 17:45:00 Gone from mystery into mystery Gone from daylight into night Another step deeper into darkness Closer to the light ~ Bruce Cockburn About a decade ago I was certified as an emergency medical technician. I later completed a semester of paramedic school, which is basically akin to accelerated medical school. I never wanted to pursue emergency medical ... More About: Personal , Perspective
?From forlorn fattie to fashion model? and other 1950s-era sage advice
2008-04-03 17:14:00 While looking for an old paper yesterday, I stumbled across some notes I made while researching women’s magazines in the 1950s for articles and advertisements related to women, food and body image. I thought I’d share a few snippets here from the notes I made. Many of these would be hilariously funny if ... More About: Advice , Diets , Fashion , Pop Culture , Model
Healthy eating 101
More articles from this author:2008-04-02 14:00:00 The Sacramento Bee has republished the National Eating Disorders Association’s 10 Tips on how to promote healthy relationships with food to kids (and adults). I think it deserves a reposting here, too. 1. Eat when you are hungry. Stop eating when you are full. 2. There are no “good” or “bad” foods, so eat ... More About: Health , Healthy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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