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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
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
A fat Howl
2008-02-15 19:32:00 “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness?” ~ Allen Ginsberg I want to talk about hypocrites. No, I don?t mean the suits strolling the halls of Congress or the Bible-waving caricatures of brotherly love. No, not even the trolls who hurl venom through cyberspace with the assumption that humanity ought to be ... More About: Howl
A Valentine?s Day ode to my husband - and myself
2008-02-14 18:37:00 I was inspired by Kate’s sage repost over at Shapely Prose in honor of Valentine ’s Day commercially-induced love mania to share the story of how I never met my husband because I thought I was too fat. It was rather serendipitous the events that culminated in me meeting Brandon. I had taken a week vacation ... More About: Personal , Eating Disorders , Husband
The Today Show: Clueless on eating disorders
2008-02-13 16:39:00 The Today Show aired a segment this week on childhood anorexia, with a feature on a young girl who developed the disorder at the age of 10. With the rise of the anti-obesity and especially childhood obesity scourge, it comes as little surprise that children are developing eating disorders at younger ages and in ... More About: Diets , Eating Disorders , Today Show
In memory of Polly Ann Williams
2008-02-12 18:56:00 Gone from mystery into mystery Gone from daylight into night Another step deeper into darkness Closer to the light ~ Bruce Cockburn I wasn?t going to blog today outside of listing a few quick news hits. I have a 500-page book waiting to be read for a graduate class and lots of work-related stories to write up. But ... More About: Memory , Williams , In Memory
The world in weight: The weekly round-up
2008-02-12 16:39:00 I’ve got lots of blog topics collecting dust in my brain, but no time to write them just now. Instead, here are a few weight-related topics in the news to chew on. Wow. A major newspaper - The Sacramento Bee - has acknowledged body weight may be more a case of genes and metabolism ... More About: World , Weight , Round Up , The World , Weekly
Eat more veggies, win an iPod
2008-02-11 04:00:00 The vegan organization Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is offering a drawing of an Ipod to those who take and pass along its pledge to move towards a more vegetarian diet. I have reservations about some of the goals of the organization and the methods by which its members seek to achieve those goals, ...
New study: Fatness largely determined by genetics
2008-02-07 16:10:00 New research out of the University College London suggests genetics and heritability may account for 77 percent of obesity, while environmental factors make up less than 25 percent. The study appears this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Researchers there followed 5,092 pairs of twins aged eight to 11 years, born between 1994 ... More About: Health , Study , Fatness , Genetics
For shame, Oprah, for shame
2008-02-06 17:49:00 Earlier this week, Fillyjonk offered up a confessional about her messy, cluttered home, opining “I?m sure some pop-psych frauds would love to theorize that my house is messy because two fat people live in it, and we are lazy and can?t take care of ourselves or our surroundings.” Is she prescient or what? Magic eight-ball ... More About: Diets , Oprah , Shame
Strength in numbers
2008-02-06 16:39:00 The ever-astute Harriet commented today on a breaking news story from the Orlando Sentinel on Oprah’s recent weight gain. The story brings up excellent points about the futility of dieting and the fact that, if Oprah with her millions all her money and personal chef and personal trainer can’t lose weight, realistically, who ... More About: Numbers
Morgan rocks M & J Show on binge eating disorder
2008-02-05 18:29:00 Fatosphere blogger Morgan Wiley of the blog www.fatgrrl.com absolutely rocked The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet this morning. Morgan appeared with fellow guest Marie to discuss binge eating disorder (BED), a disorder that has been estimated to be more common than both anorexia and bulimia combined. Also appearing were Dr. Susan Bartell ... More About: Rocks , Eating , Binge Eating
Nothing says ?I love you? like ?Get your fat ass to the gym, honey.?
2008-02-05 03:41:00 As if unwrapping a digital scale instead of say, an iPod for Christmas isn’t disappointing and blatantly offensive enough, now Forbes magazine suggests spouses (and significant others) give their partners the gift of a “longer, healthier life” this Valentine’s Day. And, of course, as readers here are well aware - *cue eye rolling* - ... More About: Health , Fitness , Love , Exercise , Nutrition
Fatosphere in the news
2008-02-04 16:32:00 COFRA has issued its very first press release in opposition of Mississippi’s HB 282, which would discriminate against fat people. If you can, send a link to your local news organization to help spread the word. “As a plan to quell the so-called ?obesity epidemic,’ this bill would have substantial and ... More About: News , In the News , The News , Eating Disorders
In defense of the cupcake
2008-02-03 02:09:00 I recently interviewed my childhood friend Summer, now a pastry chef at a prominent local restaurant, for a profile piece in my paper. Summer?s signature dessert is a flight of cupcakes, featuring five distinct and delectable mini treats. After sampling her vegan chocolate cupcake with cream cheese frosting, it occurred to me that ... More About: Health , Defense , Eating Disorders
Unbelievable? or maybe not
More articles from this author:2008-01-31 23:57:00 As reported by Sandy at the blog JunkFoodScience: It has actually happened. Lawmakers have proposed legislation that forbids restaurants and food establishments from serving food to anyone who is obese (as defined by the State). Under this bill, food establishments are to be monitored for compliance under the State Department of Health and violators will have ... More About: Unbelievable 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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