Category: Books
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Rethinking Thin and Mindless Eating
19 comments on Rethinking Thin and Mindless EatingThis Reason review of both Gina Kolata’s Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss— and the Myths and Realities of Dieting and Brian Wansink’s Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think does something one doesn’t often see in writing about the efficacy of diets: It recognizes that losing 10lbs is nothing like losing 100lbs. In Rethinking Thin, Kolata, a veteran New York Times science reporter, focuses on a…
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Monday Morning Smile?
Last week at work was much more on the stressful side than I wanted. Usually I pack up the week’s worries when I shut down my computer and neaten my office; this week it was Sunday before I really let go of the stress. Tomorrow I go back. So I’m going to include a few things that made me smile this weekend. Chocolate: The Consuming Passion…
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Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere
Part of me wants to read (not skim) Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere and let it marinate over the weekend and then post a comprehensive, reasoned review.
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I’m Fat! So?
I hadn’t re-read FAT!SO? : Because You Don’t Have to Apologize for Your Size in years, but I remembered it was fun, and fun sounded good.
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Fat Acceptance in the News
Obese anti-dieting crusaders lead charge for overweight civil rights – not bad, though as Kate noted she’s co-author of Lessons from the Fat-o-spherewith Marianne Kirby. TV host: Style could boost healthier image – mostly about What Not To Wear but includes a few paragraphs about Dr Linda Bacon’s book Health At Every Size. Club nights for plus-size Valley patrons prove popular – about nightlife promoters in Long Beach and…
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Thankful Thursday
1) Another review of the book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight. “Bacon’s new book on HAES combines her medical background with social analysis and practical tools for learning to eat intuitively and enjoy being active.” 2) Getting enough sleep to wake up without the alarm. 3) Lack of knee pain! 4) iPod makes the treadmill less boring, and the greenery outside…
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Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession
I’m reading Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession. I think the book is trying to be shocking. The first essay is about fat in Nigerian culture (good if you’re female, bad if you’re male). Another is on the Andean legend of the pishtaco, a bogeyman whose objective is to extract fat from the bodies of his victims. But the one that’s boggled my mind is … Don Kulick‘s…
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Google Health News Surprise
“Dieting now makes you gain weight.” This San Francisco Chronicle article isn’t news for the fatosphere. But it is news, indeed, a pleasant surprise, for Google News. “Dieting is the worst thing people can do if they’re interested in weight control,” said Linda Bacon, a nutrition professor and clinical psychotherapist in the East Bay whose book, “Health at Every Size,” was published in November (BenBella Books). “Dieting seems the fastest…
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Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
At the urging of the Lord Peter group, I got Connie Willis’ comedic time-travel novel To Say Nothing of the Dog from the library (and liked it enough to buy it). It starts off confusing (first-person narration by someone who’s time-lagged will do that) but is pretty funny, and full of golden age mystery fiction references. It also contains several homages to the 1889 book Three Men in a…
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Quotes
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all. You can’t let them stop you.” — Rita Mae Brown The above is a quote from the novel Venus Envy. I have it memorized. Some people know Brown for…
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HAES in O Magazine?
…so you’ve probably seen that Oprah has announced that she’s not going to try to be thin, she’s going to work on being healthy. Meanwhile, Linda Bacon sent an email to her mailing list Monday that began: First, I’m happy to report that my book, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, has been very well received. You can check out the reviews link…
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Ruby, The Rabbi’s Wife
Book: Fax me a Bagelby Sharon Kahn. Genre/Category: Amateur detective mostly operating amid her friends and frenemies at her local synagogue. Setup: Fortysomething widow Ruby Rothman is still known as “the Rabbi’s Wife” despite her husband’s death. When Marla, the sister of her nemisis on the synagogue board, is murdered, Ruby’s friend Milt is suspected. Ruby tries to figure out what’s going on – and learns more…
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Yoga Videos & Books I have known
I started doing yoga in college with Raquel Welch’s book on yoga.1 Even then I found yoga relaxing and energizing. It also helped me improve my strength & flexibility. Years later I wanted to try yoga again, but, remembering how I’d had no idea how to modify some poses, I looked for something more tailored to my sort of body. I’d read about the video Yoga for…
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Book Review: Dying to be Thin
Dying to Be Thin: A Fat City Mystery by Kathryn Lilley. Genre/Category: Girl Reporter turns Amateur Detective in a diet center comedy. Setup: 26-year-old Kate Gallagher is an award-winning TV News producer with a camera-ready face but a behind-the-camera (size 16) body. She wants to be a reporter, so when she’s laid off from her job in Boston, she checks into a diet clinic in Durham, NC…
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W00t, w00t I say!!!!
Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, by Kate Harding of Shapely Prose and Marianne Kirby aka The Rotund, is available for pre-order on Amazon. :)
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What’s My Cue?
Remember I posted about Health at Every Size, and one of my follow-ups was that it inspired me to make two changes to my eating habits? Eat foods with more fiber. Plan an afternoon snack. Well, I’ve been doing both of these for a few weeks now. The good: My blood sugar isn’t fluctuating as quickly as it was previously. My planned snacks are more satisfying than…
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Links!
This 2007 interview with Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size (review here). From New York Times writer Gina Kolata, a discussion of various types of medical studies and how to read them (skeptically). The accompanying graphic is cool too. From Noël Figart, The Unfit Person’s Guide to Fitness. I found this to be a useful starting place when I began exercising after a few years…
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