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Aspiring size zeros become diet heros
2008-01-16 16:19:00 When I first heard about the BBC documentary “Super Skinny Me,” in which two journalists embark on extreme diets in efforts to whittle their bodies down to a catwalk size 0, I knew the show would eventually become pro-ana fodder for girls and women seeking out the recipe for a ready-made eating disorder. Now ... More About: Diet , Eating Disorders , Heros , Size
Blonsky shines; Queen-Sized disappoints
2008-01-15 18:27:00 I know I shouldn?t expect much from Lifetime television, I really shouldn?t. But with the launch of the surprisingly body-affirmative show How to Look Good Naked and the hyped-up Lifetime premiere of Queen -Sized, starring the non-fat-suit-wearing Hairspray darling Nikki Blonsky, I thought the station might be moving in a more positive direction. And after reading ... More About: Eating Disorders
Followup on eating disorders research project
2008-01-15 16:45:00 I received an email from Louise Pratt, communications officer of the King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, about my mention of the institute’s new eating disorders awareness site at www.eatingresearch.com. I had mentioned some of the institute’s eating disorder research projects and Pratt was kind enough to clarify that the projects are open to ... More About: Research , Project , Eating Disorders , Disorders , Eating
Radio producer needs some help
2008-01-11 21:01:00 I received the following request via an email discussion list I am a part of. It sounds like an interesting project and I’m reposting the request here in case anyone is interested in participating. Send submissions and/or questions to Sarah at sarahryahm at yahoo dot com Hello all. I’m a radio ... More About: Radio , Producer , Needs
The world in weight: The weekly round-up
2008-01-11 16:59:00 A weekly round-up of weight-related topics in the news: The Daily Mail reported last week on the rising numbers of eating disorders across Great Britain. Official statistics show eating disorders there have become so widespread - stats show a 40 percent increase in anorexia since 1990 - they are putting serious strains on hospital services ... More About: Health , World , Weight , Nutrition , Eating Disorders
My Secret Police
2008-01-09 16:48:00 ?Then I was reminded of the proprietor of a Vietnamese restaurant in Quebec who used to be head of the secret police in Da Nang - and it occurred to me I was thinking about all this stuff to keep from thinking about something else… Isn’t that just what secret police are all about? ?Get Up ... More About: Police , Eating Disorders , Secret
Make Me a Supermodel: A ?Model? show?
2008-01-07 17:22:00 Fans of America?s Next Top Model will see a few twists with Bravo?s new reality show Make Me a Supermodel, premiering Jan. 10. Hoping to set itself apart from the competition, the show, hosted by supermodels Tyson Beckford and Niki Taylor, includes both male and female models and lets viewers decide who wins the ... More About: Fashion , Show , Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders: Eating 101
2008-01-04 16:58:00 One Jewish Dyke has posted a very personal and honest blog entry about her recent experiences battling ED-NOS that you should go read. She has already taken what may be the most difficult step for many with an eating disorder to make: the decision to seek out help for her problem. Yet like ... More About: Eating Disorders , Disorders , Eating
Dear Abby: Your prejudice is showing
2008-01-02 21:12:00 I don?t know why I continue to read advice columnists like Ask Amy or Dear Abby , I really don?t. It could be the voyeur in me or maybe reading the problems of others reassures me that my life can be much worse. All I can offer in defense is that they?re good for ... More About: Prejudice , Dear Abby
New Year?s Resolution: Change the world, not my body
2007-12-29 23:03:00 In just a few days, thousands of people everywhere are about to make their New Year ’s resolutions. A New Year?s resolution is a noteworthy concept ? start the year off with a change for the better. So how did the tradition evolve into a subconscious exercise in self-flagellation? Lindsay over at Babble ... More About: Body , World , Change , The World
The Skinny on Starbucks
2007-12-28 21:00:00 Ordering coffee at Starbucks can be challenging, what with the gazillion of choices available ? a tall non-fat double-shot vanilla latte with whip, anyone? Now the brewing baron is making ordering easier for perplexed patrons with its new ?Skinny ? platform. The new lingo ? the word ?skinny? ? saves you from having to say nonfat Latte ...
I am blogger, hear me roar
2007-12-28 18:49:00 So, while I was on holiday hiatus, I was “roared” at by Harriet at the blog Feed Me! Many thanks, Harriet. Roar etiquette directs me to do two things: list three things I believe are necessary for powerful writing, and then send roars out to another five of my favorite and fearless writers. ... More About: Blogger , Book Reviews , Hear
Belated holiday greetings
2007-12-27 17:16:00 And a very belated Merry Christmas to readers of The-F-Word! The husband and I took a delicious several days off work and the world generally, hence the gap in usually routine posting madness. I hope everyone had a wonderful and stress-free holiday. Christmas, for me, is a time to literally shower those I love with gifts, ... More About: Holiday , Book Reviews , Administrative , Holiday Greetings
The real elephant in the room
2007-12-21 19:28:00 If Paul Campos were running for president, I?d consider backing him. Seriously. If Campos used an ounce of the methodical reporting, rational examination of the numbers and plain ole? common sense he uses to deconstruct stereotypes and discrimination against fat people towards, say, the American economy, the nation would be much better for it. In his ... More About: Real , Room , Elephant
Angelina Jolie: It?s grief, not an eating disorder
2007-12-21 02:08:00 The tabloids and even some so-called reputable media outlets have been rife the past year with speculations that Angelina Jolie has an eating disorder - The National Enquirer even went so far in May as to diagnose the star with anorexia nervosa. But in a portion of an interview posted by Digital Spy, the ... More About: Eating Disorders , Eating
Losing weight, losing myself
2007-12-20 16:49:00 Fillyjonk at Shapely Prose has linked to and commented on a personal essay submitted to Newsweek’s My Turn feature. The article is titled ?My Secret History: I may be thin now, but that doesn’t mean I share your opinions about fat people,? written by Megan Northrup. In the article, Northrup recounts a lifetime of ... More About: Personal , Weight , Eating Disorders , Losing Weight , Weigh
New research on anorexia as brain disease
2007-12-17 15:59:00 A study published this month in The American Journal of Psychiatry sheds new light on the anorexia-by-super-thin-models controversy. A team of psychiatrists, led by Walter Kaye, of the University of Pittsburgh, conducted the study, which suggests that the brains of anorexia sufferers behave differently to those of the rest of the population and that certain people ... More About: Research , Anorexia , Eating Disorders , Disease , Brain
Rewarding what really matters
2007-12-13 22:51:00 Neither my husband nor I have an iota of fashion sense, but we?re both addicted to Project Runway. Last night?s episode, ?What?s the Skinny,? challenged the designers to re-style the favorite but now-too-big outfits of 12 women, all of whom have lost a significant amount of weight. Each woman introduced herself along with ... More About: Fashion , Matters
It’s official: Janice Dickinson is crazy
2007-12-12 22:49:00 Perhaps Botox ought to come with a warning: Caution, may destroy part of brain capable of making rational decisions. Blogs and media sites across the nation and beyond are all hashing and rehashing the latest debacle starring the Queen of Crazy , Janice Dickinson - see here and here. In case you’ve been living under a rock, the former model-turned-scary-reality TV star weighed in on the much-criticized bikini photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt in an episode of The Today Show: “These are unflattering camera angles on her,” said Dickinson, 52. “You want to see someone who’s fat? I’m sorry, Tyra. Tyra Banks is fat. This girl is not fat.” Seriously, with women like this, who needs the patriarchy? With the latest brouhaha still raging, I settled the remote last night on an “all new” episode of Dickinson’s Oxygen reality show, in which Dickinson conducts an open call for new models. After signing a model who clearly has self-harming issues, Ja... More About: Official
A note to my husband
2007-12-11 17:42:00 Dear honey, For Christmas this year, I do not want health cooking cookbooks nor do I want a consultation with a nutritional therapist wherein I am weighed, measured, and otherwise poked and prodded to determine my daily caloric intake and diet plan most conducive for weight loss. Okay, so the spa package might be ... More About: Health , Note , Nutrition , Husband
Pay attention to the (business)man behind the curtain
2007-12-10 18:01:00 The husband and I caught the tail-end of a Book TV discussion this weekend with Shannon Brownlee, a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of the newly published Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. I have not read Brownlee?s book, only reviews of it and the synopsis ... More About: Business , Attention , Sine
Reminder: Stories of Our Bodies
2007-12-08 18:32:00 I’ve had a warm response to my call for Stories of our Bodies . Just to let everyone who submitted a story know, I am in the process of reading them all and will get back to you shortly. I’m also trying to decide on the best format in which to present these in ... More About: Pop Culture , Reminder , Remi
A sense of perspective
2007-12-08 02:36:00 You wouldn’t think I’m a pacifist, considering I’ve managed to piss off both the Dan Savage loyalists and the pro-anas all in the same week. For this, my husband has warned me to never insult the Trekkies. I’ve received some pretty hurtful, insulting, and all-around ugly comments in response to both the Savage Love debacle ... More About: Personal , Sense , Perspective
A case for pro-ana/mia sites
2007-12-07 05:45:00 While perusing my website referral logs, I noticed a link from a site that sounds as if it could be a pro-ana site. I don?t care to give the name or link to the site for obvious reasons. In order to view the forums included on the site?s messageboard, you first had to register and ... More About: Health , Sites , Nutrition , Eating Disorders , Case
Fat hatred abounds in advice columns
2007-12-06 17:19:00 It seems fat-hating advice columnists are on a rampage this week. First Dan Savage, now Ask Margo. If you, like me, had no clue who Ask Margo is, here’s a primer: Margo Howard is the daughter of Eppie Lederer, who wrote an advice column as Ann Landers for more than 40 years. Howard ... More About: Advice , Columns , Hatred
Dan Savage: Pot, kettle, black
2007-12-06 05:37:00 Dan Savage ’s follow-up note last week promising to revisit the issue of a spouse who no longer finds his fat spouse attractive initially gave me cause for optimism. His advice, reaffirming spousal weight-gain, really disappointed me, but I had hoped readers would help him see the error of his ways and he’d set things ... More About: Pop Culture , Black
Totally irrelevant but exciting news
2007-12-05 18:46:00 Okay, so long-time readers might remember my husband and I were married this summer on Mackinac Island, Mich. July 25. Yes, yes, I did all the nauseating wedding gushing, from making a wedding announcement page to an online wedding photo gallery. Anyway, my mom just called me to let me know she saw ... More About: News , Irrelevant
Newsflash: It?s fitness, not fatness
2007-12-05 17:19:00 A study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association reinforces what I, and other followers of the Health at Every Size movement, have been saying all along: It’s fitness, not fatness, that’s key to good health. Researchers, led by Dr. Xumei Sui of the University of South Carolina and Columbia, studied ... More About: Fitness , Nutrition , Fatness
B & Lu: If you design it, they will come
2007-12-04 17:44:00 Being the fashion-unsavvy simpleton that I am, I had never heard of B & Lu until Kate started singing their praises. But, according to an article in the StarTribune, it appears as if I’m in the minority. In eight years, the company has gone from one order a day to bringing in almost ... More About: Design
Memo to Santa: Girls want Bob, not Barbie
More articles from this author:2007-12-03 05:45:00 New marketing research by toy manufacturer Martin Yaffe gives some cause for celebration. The company put this year?s top Christmas toys to the test, with seven out of 10 girls opting to play with toys designed for boys over the traditional girls? alternatives. All disgust at the perpetuation of gender roles aside, here?s ... More About: Girls , Eating Disorders , Santa , Barbie , Memo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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