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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
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
The Weekly Digest: Related topics in the news
2008-04-01 17:55:00 A roundup of related topics in the news… DIED Fat activist Jeanne Toombs has passed away due to complications of pneumonia. Am active board member of NAAFA, Toombs also spearheaded efforts to assist in the passing of the bill that would add height and weight to the protected classes in Massachusetts. Expressions of sympathy may ... More About: News , Health , In the News , The News , Topics
First ?average-size? girl makes it to Miss England finals
2008-03-31 17:39:00 News organizations and bloggers alike are crowing about Chloe Marshall, the first “plus-size” girl to make it to the finals of the Miss England contest. The national competition isn’t until July, but Chloe’s triumph has already incited comments denigrating her as “overweight” and “unhealthy” and insisting she “shouldn’t be happy with that at such ... More About: Health , Fashion , Girl
Bimbo primer
2008-03-31 01:31:00 CNN Headline news tonight ranted about a site that encourages adolescent girls as young as seven to give virtual dolls breast implants, dress them in lingerie and put them on crash diets. The UK-based ‘Miss Bimbo ’ web site describes itself as a “virtual fashion game for girls” and encourages them to compete against each ... More About: Diets
Reminder: Eating disorder blog survey
2008-03-30 20:40:00 Just a reminder about the ongoing survey of bloggers who blog about eating disorders or eating disorder recovery. The response has been really great so far. I’d like to get input from bloggers suffering from a diversity of eating disorders, from binge eating disorder to compulsive overexercise to emotional and compulsive overeating to purging ... More About: Survey , Blog , Eating , Reminder
Contact info for Sweet Valley High re-release complaints
2008-03-28 17:10:00 Several bloggers have written about the re-release of the Sweet Valley High series, decrying that the “perfect size 6″ twins of the 1980s have now been whittled into a “perfect size 4.” Writes the blog Gawker: It seems kids in the 80s lived by totally fat standards. Also, Sweet Valley High students now have their own anonymous ... More About: Contact , Info , Release
?Liberally coated in doughnut batter??
2008-03-27 16:30:00 If for no other reason than the hilarious quote above, I am posting this great article on plus-size model Crystal Renn. Four years ago, Renn epitomized the size-zero super-wraith model: 98 pounds and about to starve herself even thinner. Now back to a healthy size 16, she’s on a mission - and, ironically, more ... More About: Fashion , Eating Disorders
Memo to MeMe: This is why fat is a feminist issue
2008-03-26 20:28:00 During The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet in which Mo and I appeared alongside the one-woman-anti-obesity-organization-found er MeMe Roth, Roth didn’t quite seem to get the connections between feminism and fat rights or feminism and body size acceptance or feminism and eating disorders or feminism and well, anything else. Her exact words were, according ... More About: Meme , Eating Disorders , Memo , Issue , Feminist
Full circle: Making exercise ?fun? again
2008-03-25 21:23:00 Sanjay Gupta is presented by media outlets as the wonder doctor of all fields, the Doogie Howser neurosurgeon extraordinaire who can just as effortlessly deliver a baby as he can diagnose rare genetic diseases. Gupta is quite accomplished and boasts an impressive array of credentials and qualifications, but considering his career as the medical ... More About: Health , Fitness , Diets , Exercise , Nutrition
Shades of gray and research, too
2008-03-24 21:08:00 I don’t react well to stress, which is to say, I often freak out about and over-dramaticize those situations in which even the minute of forces are beyond my control. It’s the same kind of classic black and white thinking that helped structure and bolster my eating disorder. Like every quarter of my undergraduate and ... More About: Diets , Research , Eating Disorders , Gray , Shades of Gray
Beinggirl pulls article promoting eating disorders
2008-03-24 16:11:00 Thanks to everyone who heeded the call for action and wrote in to www.beinggirl.com site sponsors Tampax and P & G about an article promoting eating disordered behavior to young girls. The article has now been removed, but you can still read the sad and tragic comments it elicited from its young demographic archived ... More About: Promoting , Article , Pop Culture , Eating Disorders , Disorders
Eating disordered bloggers wanted for survey
2008-03-23 16:44:00 Are you actively eating disordered or eating disordered recovered? Do you have a blog in which you address your struggles with an eating disorder? Then I want to hear from you. I’m collecting anonymous data for a study on the role blogging plays in eating disorder recovery. I want to hear from any ... More About: Survey , Bloggers , Wanted , Eating
The artful dodger: Donatella Versace
2008-03-22 20:56:00 Donatella Versace , brother of slain fashion mogul Gianni Versace, is this week’s profilee of Time’s 10 Questions feature. After her brother was killed in 1997, she took over the family business and built it into a global brand - but not for a global demographic. Asked one Time reader: Q. Do you think ... More About: Fashion , Donatella Versace
What is activism? Do I qualify as an activist?
2008-03-21 15:06:00 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead So my last post on “coming out” as a fat rights activists sparked lots of “I don’t consider myself an activist because….” kind of disqualifiers. I probably ought to have ... More About: Activism
Coming out of the fat closet
2008-03-20 20:47:00 Since I am not in the habit of routinely jetting off to New York City to tape a national television show - yes, I know, hard to believe - I found myself in the rather awkward position of explaining to my currently-dieting editor and largely fat family why The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet ... More About: Closet
Pro-fat article in San Diego CityBeat
2008-03-20 00:13:00 Kudos to alternative weekly San Diego CityBeat writer Kinsee Morlan on her fair and sensitive pro-fat article. I am quoted in the article, as are Paul Campos, NAAFA spokesperson Peggy Howell and others working to end size-based discrimination. And let me just say how awesome it feels to be quoted in an article ... More About: Personal , Article
Help out eating disorders research
2008-03-19 03:31:00 I received an email request from Brittan Davis, a psychology major at Baldwin-Wallace College, who is doing year-long independent study under the advisement of Debora Esty, Ph.D., for reader assistance to aid in her research. Readers of First, Do No Harm might remember Dr. Esty as the same doctor who posted a survey for ... More About: Research , Eating Disorders , Disorders , Eating
Who benefits from bad science?
More articles from this author:2008-03-18 13:00:00 A recent article published in the New Scientist this month examines the role anti-depressants play in causing and exacerbating fatness. Article author Paula J. Caplan, an author and clinical and research psychologist at Harvard University, cites the growing popularity of psychotropic drugs - taken by around 50 million Americans - could be potentially causing ... More About: Science , Benefits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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