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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?
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
Who needs terrorism?
2008-03-17 18:05:00 This is a follow-up to the call for action on article featured on the Tampax/Procter & Gamble website www.beinggirl.com. Titled ?What Does the War Have to Do With Your Weight?,? the article ?reassures? young girls that they aren?t alone in their emotional overeating, and provide 9 irresponsible and potentially harmful ?tips? on how to ... More About: Terrorism , Health , Nutrition , Eating Disorders
Firing eating disorder triggers
2008-03-17 05:06:00 Several weeks ago, I wrote a story on a candlelight vigil and walk to commemorate National Eating Disorders Awareness Week organized by a local psychologist who specializes in the treatment of eating disorders (I swear I will post the photos and recap of the event soon). Such specialists are a rarity in Cincinnati, a ... More About: Triggers
Call for action: Site for adolescent teens promotes eating disorders
2008-03-15 18:18:00 A reader alerted Kate Harding to this disturbing article on the www.beinggirl.com website, sponsored by Tampax and parent company Procter & Gamble. It appears that the American president and his grand old party aren’t the only ones catastrophizing and capitalizing on fears of terrorism. Titled “What Does the War Have to Do With Your ... More About: Health , Teens , Action , Site , Pop Culture
The world in weight: The weekly round-up
2008-03-15 17:07:00 A round-up of related topics in the news: Adolescent girls with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are more likely to develop eating disorders than girls without ADHD, a new study has found. The findings have appeared in the current issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Related news story here. The news story doesn’t go ... More About: World , Weight , Round Up , Eating Disorders , The World
The skinny on diet junk-food
2008-03-14 19:00:00 My sister-in-law, the Weight Watcherer, is probably the pickiest eater I know. She doesn’t like vegetables, she doesn’t eat much fruit. What she seems to live on are those ridiculously expensive 100-calorie preportioned diet junk-food snacks. But yet because she’s managed to lose her baby weight and is now back to what is ... More About: Health , Food , Diets , Diet , Nutrition
Health is holistic
2008-03-14 16:55:00 The company I work for held its first health and wellness fair yesterday. What with the company-sanctioned Biggest Loser competition and employee Weight Watchers group, I was hesitant to attend, for fears our large conference room would be bulging at the seams with diet company representatives shilling snake oil weigh-loss cures and medical experts ... More About: Health , Holistic , Nutrition
Weight loss for everyone!
2008-03-12 18:59:00 After I had lost about a third of my body weight on The Diet Turned Eating Disorder, friends, family and co-workers all encouraged me to stop (what they thought was) the diet. “You look great,” they’d gush and then more sternly, “Now stop dieting.” I, of course, took their mostly well-intentioned compliments as indicators ... More About: Health , Weight Loss , Weight , Nutrition , Eating Disorders
Eating disorders in the Jewish community
2008-03-12 16:12:00 Via Big Fat Deal, comes a report on the little known phenomena of eating disorders within the Orthodox Jewish community. Monique’s commentary is in response to related posts at Jezebel and Jewcy on the subject. Jewcy writer Tamar Fox cites an article in Forward about yet another Lurlene McDaniel’esque film banally ... More About: Community , Eating Disorders , Disorders , Eating
You may now love yourself
2008-03-11 17:08:00 Talk of faith-based diets have popped up again recently, both on blogs and in the news. According to these profiteering proselytizers and charlatans of Christ, gluttony is a sin (because all fat people gorge themselves, of course) and thinness is next to godliness. The diet industry is a heartless and manipulative ... More About: Love
Obesity scapegoat wears thin
2008-03-10 17:30:00 I always read advice columnists whenever I’m procrastinating at writing papers, and I came across this rather interesting letter to Dear Abby. Despite a family history of high blood pressure, Dawn Edwards, a self-described “healthy, vibrant mother of one” and “active health-conscious vegetarian,” thought she was at her physical peak. So when she experienced nausea ... More About: Health , Fitness , Exercise , Obesity
PSA from your body
2008-03-10 02:46:00 Michelle has created an awesome public service announcement from your body. Michelle, a nutrition student, created the video as part of a school project promoting nutrition awareness. Great job, Michelle! More About: Body
Reminder to FA bloggers
2008-03-09 23:46:00 Just a reminder… Lindsay of the blog Babble has set up a private message board exclusively for bloggers who write about issues related to fat rights. We already have about 33 members, most of whom regularly participate and contribute to discussions relevant to FA bloggers, as well as other un-blog-related conversations. The board ... More About: Bloggers , Reminder
Lisa Presley: ?I?m not fat, I?m pregnant!?
More articles from this author:2008-03-08 03:45:00 I usually leave the pop stuff to other more pop-culture savvy bloggers, but I was struck by the inherent hilarity in why Lisa Marie Presley felt she had to “show [her] cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack” that she is, in fact, pregnant - AP story on it here. ... More About: Pregnant 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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