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Call for action: Hungry Hank board game
2007-12-02 17:58:00 Sandy Szwarc alerted readers this week to a troubling new board game out geared for young children. The game, Hungry Hank , not only reinforces prejudicial stereotypes of fat people, it also teaches children to think like anorectics and compulsive exercisers, writes Sandy. Players come away learning that foods, especially ?bad? foods, make them fat. The ... More About: Action , Board , Game , Call
A brief recap of the historical war on fat (people)
2007-12-01 22:55:00 During the early stages of my eating disorder, I found myself wandering the marbled halls of the Cincinnati Art Museum every Saturday afternoon. There is something so inherently calming in wandering alone amongst such treasures of antiquity. Before long, I noticed what struck me as an uncanny similarity amongst the works of great ... More About: People , Historical , Recap
Call for submissions: The stories of our bodies
2007-12-01 07:49:00 A couple years ago I took an honors seminar on the culture of eating disorders. As to be expected, the class was comprised entirely of women; some were openly eating disordered, and many of the rest, I suspect, were secretly disordered or, at the very least, possessed disordered thinking about food. Our first ... More About: Stories , Call , Bodies , The Stories , Bodie
Designer diets run amok
2007-11-30 15:25:00 Speaking of our distorted ideas about body image, I just stumbled across the wonderfully clever cartoons of Mikhaela B. Reid. Who says feminists don’t have a sense of humor? Click for larger image On the inspiration for the cartoon, Mikhaela writes: Partly inspired by the disgusting facts about the weirdly popular diet drug Alli, but partly by ... More About: Diets , Designer
The world in weight: The weekly round-up
2007-11-30 00:00:00 The (intended) weekly round-up of related F-word topics in the news. As reported in USA Today, consumer test trials are now being conducted on ?smart carts? ? electronics-equipped carts tricked out with computer screens barcode scanners ? which customers can use to scan item packaging to view a display of nutritional information, means of production and ... More About: Health , World , Weight , Eating Disorders , The World
The hijacking of Body Image Month
2007-11-27 18:01:00 It?s always an interesting study in sociology to examine how popular mass media interprets the concept of ?Body Image ? campaigns. Take the celebrity news and gossip show Access Hollywood, for example. Now in its twelfth season of syndication, the popular newsmagazine and half-hour television show has declared November to be Body Image Month . Here?s a ... More About: Pop Culture , Eating Disorders
Eating disorders inspires laughs
2007-11-26 00:57:00 People who know me describe me as a fairly positive and gasp, even perky kind of person. You kind of have to be a ?people person? if you?re going to be a reporter; I mean, who wants to talk to a sour-faced prude, right? When my circle of friends and I first began blogging years ... More About: Eating Disorders , Disorders , Eating , Diso
Another fashion model dies of anorexia - the world yawns
2007-11-23 19:11:00 Another fashion model has died from anorexia-related complications. Israeli fashion model Hila Elmalich died Nov. 14 of heart failure. The corpse she leaves behind is the average weight of a seven-year old child. If you didn?t read about it in the newspapers or hear it on the evening news, ... More About: Fashion , World , Pop Culture , Model , Anorexia
A letter to Dan Savage
2007-11-21 21:16:00 Dear Dan, It?s been a couple years now since my husband turned me on to your deliciously clever and sarcastic column. It was, I thought, the beginning of a long and loyal writer/reader relationship. I remember happy times sipping steamed soy milk while browsing through your books at Barnes & Noble? those ... More About: Pop Culture , Letter , Savage , Sava
Vote for Connie Sobczak and The Body Positive
2007-11-19 19:29:00 Connie Sobczak nearly lost her life to bulimia. But she was lucky. She recovered. Her sister Stephanie did not. She died from eating disorder complications at the age of 36. In memory of her sister, Connie founded The Body Positive , a nonprofit organization that promotes healthy living and body acceptance - ... More About: Vote , The Body , Connie
Sarah Hartshorne weighs in on ANTM experiences
2007-11-18 21:09:00 First, Sarah Hartshorne wasn’t fat enough for plus-size. Then, when after living in a house full of weight-obsessed women, she not-so-surprisingly started to lose weight - a whopping three and a half pounds - judges criticize her for losing said non-existent “plus-sized” figure. Not fat enough for for plus-size and too hefty for regular ... More About: Experiences , Erie , Weigh , Horn
When a photo expresses a thousand feelings
2007-11-17 23:05:00 We’ve talked before of the therapeutic role art plays in recovery for many girls and women with eating disorders. The Miami Herald reports today on another case of art as empowerment, that of 22-year-old Jessica Aron, who uses photography as a therapeutic outlet. Several of Aron’s self-portraits use a measuring tape as a ... More About: Photo , Thousand , Feelings
10 Questions for Gina Kolata
2007-11-16 15:55:00 Gina Kolata is an award-winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and the author of many books, including, “Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead”, “The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine“, “Sex in America”, the best-selling “Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and ... More About: Interviews , Questions , Book Reviews
Site redesign launched
2007-11-16 15:28:00 After a few frustrating nights spent hunched over my laptop finally comes the redesign I’ve been planning for months. I’ve known that I wanted to use the girl in the header graphic for months in the new site design, but just wasn’t sure how I wanted to structure the rest of the site nor ... More About: Administrative , Site , Redesign , Launched
Call for non-stereotypical eating disordered experiences
2007-11-15 17:13:00 A common myth about eating disorders is that only white, middle-to-upper class females in their teen or college years develop them. I’m currently working a piece I’d like to submit for publication on non-stereotypical women with eating disorders. Are you a fat anorexic? Did your eating disorder begin or continue into adulthood? ... More About: Experiences , Call , Eating , Erie , Diso
Online auction benefits eating disorder research
2007-11-14 15:43:00 The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the largest not-for-profit organization in the United States working to prevent eating disorders and provide treatment referrals to those suffering from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder and those concerned with body image and weight issues. Every year they hold an annual auction to help raise money to help ... More About: Research , Auction , Online , Benefits
Online auction benefits eating disorder research
2007-11-14 15:43:00 The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) is the largest not-for-profit organization in the United States working to prevent eating disorders and provide treatment referrals to those suffering from anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder and those concerned with body image and weight issues. Every year they hold an annual auction to help raise money to help ... More About: Research , Auction , Online , Benefits
Fatphobes: Lose weight, save planet.
2007-11-13 20:59:00 I knew when I saw the headline ?Experts Promote the Global Warming Diet? that this would be yet another study co-opted by the anti-obesity establishment to further attack and discriminate against fat people. And I was right. Not even two hours later a troll at IP address 141.76.45.34 and claiming the email of awerwea@yahoo.com left ... More About: Health , Diets , Weight , Lose Weight , Planet
Fatphobes: Lose weight, save planet.
2007-11-13 20:59:00 I knew when I saw the headline ?Experts Promote the Global Warming Diet? that this would be yet another study co-opted by the anti-obesity establishment to further attack and discriminate against fat people. And I was right. Not even two hours later a troll at IP address 141.76.45.34 and claiming the email of awerwea@yahoo.com left ... More About: Health , Diets , Weight , Lose Weight , Planet
Google images speak 20 words
2007-11-13 17:46:00 From Kate, who totally stole it from Fillyjonk and Sweetmachine, comes a photo meme. The deal is, you type the answer to each question into a Google image search, and you pick an image from the first page of results. Here’s my take at it. Lots of images after the jump… More About: Personal , Images , Words , Speak
Google images speak 20 words
2007-11-13 17:46:00 From Kate, who totally stole it from Fillyjonk and Sweetmachine, comes a photo meme. The deal is, you type the answer to each question into a Google image search, and you pick an image from the first page of results. Here’s my take at it. Lots of images after the jump… More About: Personal , Images , Words , Speak
Big Fat Blog Think Tank recap
2007-11-12 21:10:00 The Big Fat Blog Think Tank Saturday was a blast. It was so much fun to finally meet many of the folks whose blogs I read online ? like Kate, Colleen, Paul and Jeani, Tari and Ottermatic ? and others who are all passionate about the same issues I care deeply about. The ... More About: Recap , Think Tank
Big Fat Blog Think Tank recap
2007-11-12 21:10:00 The Big Fat Blog Think Tank Saturday was a blast. It was so much fun to finally meet many of the folks whose blogs I read online ? like Kate, Colleen, Paul and Jeani, Tari and Ottermatic ? and others who are all passionate about the same issues I care deeply about. The ... More About: Recap , Think Tank
Company freely admits fat-based discrimination
2007-11-08 21:12:00 Westgate Resorts, the largest private employer in central Florida, has a real knack for attracting potential employees. The timeshare sales and rental company announced that not only can employees not smoke at work, they can’t smoke off the job, either. The CEO of the company, David Siegel, told TV station Local 6, ?when ... More About: Company , Discrimination , Mina
Company freely admits fat-based discrimination
2007-11-08 21:12:00 Westgate Resorts, the largest private employer in central Florida, has a real knack for attracting potential employees. The timeshare sales and rental company announced that not only can employees not smoke at work, they can’t smoke off the job, either. The CEO of the company, David Siegel, told TV station Local 6, ?when ... More About: Company , Discrimination , Mina
The inevitable media spin
2007-11-08 17:25:00 In case you were planning to celebrate yesterday’s study celebre - showing being overweight is actually ideal - with a box of Krispy Kremes, put down that doughnut… errr fork. Put down that fork: Being fat is still unhealthy Being overweight may not kill you, but it could lead to obesity, U.S. health experts cautioned on ... More About: Media , Health , Nutrition , Spin
The inevitable media spin
2007-11-08 17:25:00 In case you were planning to celebrate yesterday’s study celebre - showing being overweight is actually ideal - with a box of Krispy Kremes, put down that doughnut… errr fork. Put down that fork: Being fat is still unhealthy Being overweight may not kill you, but it could lead to obesity, U.S. health experts cautioned on ... More About: Media , Health , Nutrition , Spin
Kudos to Paul
2007-11-07 22:34:00 Paul McAleer from Big Fat Blog has been featured in Time Out Chicago, with a blurb on his upcoming Think Tank this Saturday. If you’re in or near the Chicago area, I encourage you to stop by Saturday morning. But don’t delay - tomorrow is the last day to register. I will be attending, ... More About: Kudos , Paul
Kudos to Paul
2007-11-07 22:34:00 Paul McAleer from Big Fat Blog has been featured in Time Out Chicago, with a blurb on his upcoming Think Tank this Saturday. If you’re in or near the Chicago area, I encourage you to stop by Saturday morning. But don’t delay - tomorrow is the last day to register. I will be attending, ... More About: Kudos , Paul
And this is what they call the ?obesity paradox?
More articles from this author:2007-11-07 05:26:00 October 16, 2007: Sandy Swzarc reports on “one of the largest, longest and most expensive randomized controlled diet clinical trials in the history of our country” - the Women?s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modification Trial. See her posts here and here. The study showed: There were no significant differences in the incidences of breast ... More About: Obesity , Nutrition , Call , Paradox 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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