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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 , Eating Disorders , The World , Weekly
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!?
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
Interesting experiment
2008-03-06 23:15:00 Okay, so we all know (or should know) BMI is a faulty and largely inaccurate indicator of body fat or as The Rotund puts it, BMI is crap. Recent studies have indicated that it isn’t how much fat you have that contributes to weight-related health problems as it is where fat is stored, something which has ... More About: Health , Interesting , Diets , Experiment , Nutrition
A note to marketing companies
2008-03-06 15:37:00 Dear marketer: The-F-Word.org is an eating disorders awareness and education site - not a “diet blog” or a “diet and fitness blog” or a “weight-loss site.” The site is staunchly anti-dieting, and does not promote weight loss as a means to improved health or wellness. I am not interested in your latest diet scheme ... More About: Marketing , Companies , Diets , Note
Profting off the fat of the land
2008-03-05 15:43:00 The blog On the Whole has linked to and commented on an AP story in which doctors from the U.S. and the U.K. dispute the whole obesity fearmongering epidemic. Since this story will most likely get very little, if any, national media, some of the points made bear repeating here: “The obesity epidemic has ... More About: Health , Nutrition , Land
Wanted: Blogs related to eating disorders
2008-03-04 15:40:00 I’m working on a short research paper - which I plan to submit for publication - about the role blogging plays in eating disorder recovery. I have a few eating disorders related blogs in my blogroll, right, but I’m looking for more blogs to include in my research. Do you have a eating ... More About: Blogs , Eating Disorders , Related , Disorders , Wanted
A ?Biggest Loser? worth cheering for
2008-03-03 17:56:00 I admit it, I?m a sap. My first major in college was criminal justice until I realized that most police officers don?t start bawling whenever someone yells at them. I managed to declare my wedding vows with strength and inner fortitude until upon delivering his, Brandon?s lip slightly quivered and I lost it. ... More About: Worth , Loser , Biggest Loser
Binge eating disorder in the news
2008-03-02 21:17:00 The fabulous Morgan of the blog Fatgrrl makes the news rounds again, this time by a much more compassionate and talented interviewer at the Star Tribune. Morgan, if you recall, appeared on Fox’s The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet about a week or so after my appearance to speak on binge eating disorder. ... More About: News , In the News , The News , Eating , Binge Eating
Disfigured the movie
2008-02-29 18:26:00 I’ve just heard about the independently-financed film Disfigured, showing now at select film festivals in the U.S. The timing is somewhat strangely ironic considering how I am in the midst of formulating a blog post on the intersection of fat rights and eating disorders (to be posted soon). Here’s a synopsis taken from the film’s ... More About: Movie , Eating Disorders , The Movie
How to accept a compliment
2008-02-28 12:00:00 Last week I went to cover a story on a newly opened, locally-owned café. Walking in to the color-splashed restaurant, I was greeted by the aging proprietress with, ?Are you Rachel? You are just so cute!? Later that day while on a different story, another man told me I am ?just as cute as ... More About: Accept
An eating disorder by any other name?
2008-02-27 18:29:00 This week marks National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. My husband and I will be participating in a candlelight vigil and walk Thursday night to help raise awareness about the disease, but I haven’t anything special planned here on the blog to commemorate it. While I applaud NEDA’s efforts in popularizing the week-long awareness ...
Think Tank Recap
2008-02-26 15:46:00 I don’t have time right now to post the details of the Feb. 23 Think Tank - see BFB for an overview. I have uploaded some of the photos from the event and post-event dinner. More photos after the jump. More About: Recap , Think Tank
Think Tank available on Twitter
2008-02-23 14:29:00 Somewhere along the Indiana/Illinois border we gained an hour, but sleep-wise, it feels like we’ve lost two. I say this as I sit cross-legged in the comfy hotel chair, mussed hair standing every which direction, trying to find the closest el station to take us to the anticipated Think Tank today. For those of you ... More About: Twitter , Think Tank
Jenny Craig signs on American Idol hopeful Temptress Brown
2008-02-22 17:19:00 Kirstie Alley announced this week she will step down as spokeswoman for diet-scam Jenny Craig this week to start her own diet-scam business amidst rumours and speculation that the company has fired her for regaining too much weight. But the weight-loss mogul is in no need of new spokespeople to shill their snake oil ... More About: Health , American Idol , Diets , Brown , American
Chicago FA bloggers make the news
2008-02-20 17:38:00 The Chicago Tribune’s Redeye ran a feature story on fat acceptance bloggers today, featuring none other than the fatosphere’s very own Kate Harding on the cover. Paul from Big Fat Blog was interviewed (and put in a plug about COFRA), and Colleen of the blog Pretty Pear had a whole sidebar piece on plus-size fashion. ... More About: News , The News , Bloggers , Make
Note to Elle magazine: Anorexia is not ?hot?
2008-02-20 17:18:00 I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve heard anxious, insecure women say, “I wish I could catch a little anorexia!” as if the most fatal of all psychiatric diseases is something you can casually and socially contract, like the common cold, and just as easily recover from. Now this tripe is being regurgitated in ... More About: Magazine , Elle Magazine , Note , Anorexia , Elle
Fish oil and Jesus
2008-02-19 18:38:00 He was dark and swarthy, an older man with a broad chest and sensuous, long-lashed eyes. He spoke to his mama in rapid-fire Spanish and had a wardrobe that rivaled Clinton Kelly?s. I was smitten from the moment I saw him in my world history class. He laughed each day I trudged into class, wearing three ... More About: Jesus , Fish , Eating Disorders
Update on Polly Williams
More articles from this author:2008-02-18 04:52:00 …nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight – Got to kick at the darkness ’til it bleeds daylight ~Bruce Cockburn Many of us have felt deeply disturbed by the recent death of Polly Williams , one of the four women with an eating disorder featured in Lauren Greenfield’s recent documentary, Thin. There has been much speculation on how ... More About: Update 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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