Category: Media
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Things Worth Reading: Epidemics and Safeway’s Wellness Incentives
7 comments on Things Worth Reading: Epidemics and Safeway’s Wellness IncentivesFrom ABC Australia comes Australia’s disordered eating epidemic: [W]e are not in the midst of an obesity epidemic, as it is often claimed. We are in the midst of an epidemic of disordered eating. The solutions prescribed to combat obesity are often the same behaviours we as practitioners are diagnosing in those suffering from eating […]
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“Screening for obesity in kids” is NEW?
Wait – “experts urge screening for obesity in kids“? The tone of the article implies that this is new, that this is something that hasn’t already been done to death, as if kids weren’t being put on diets in grade school 35 years ago. Oh wait, we’re still fat. So what are they proposing […]
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Barefoot Contessa
I came a bit late to the Barefoot Contessa party, but watching The Food Network meant it had to happen sooner or later. Ina Garten was a White House policy analyst before buying a specialty food store and caterer called Barefoot Contessa. Eventually she sold the store and turned to writing cookbooks and magazine columns before […]
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Time for what?
This year I was able to take off one day a week from work in December, along with the time between Christmas and New Year’s. Which means this is my first full work week in over a month. I happened to run across this last night, in Kathleen Norris’ book The Cloister Walk: In our […]
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Drink Coffee, Avoid Diabetes?
This was one headline I was grateful to read this morning. For one thing, the laugh was very welcome! Coffee, Tea Might Stave Off Diabetes More Evidence Coffee, Tea Could Prevent Diabetes From the abstract, this looks to be a review-lots-of-observational-studies study, looking at correlations. The general result? People who drink more coffee, decaf coffee, […]
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Slim-Fast Drink Recall
If you have any canned Slim-Fast drinks hidden in the back of the cupboard, you might want to toss them out. From Slim-Fast: The products are packaged in paperboard cartons and contain four, six or 12 steel cans that are 11 FL OZ (325 mL) each. Individual cans are also sold in certain retail outlets. […]
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Oprah Online: Article on fat acceptance
The Oprah magazine article I posted about earlier, by (mother) Robin Marantz Henig and (daughter) Jess Zimmerman, is online now. So far the comments are good too, but there’s only two of them, so I’d be cautious anyway.
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NYT on The Biggest Loser: “Health Can Take A Back Seat”
From The New York Times‘ article on The Biggest Loser today: Doctors, nutritionists and physiologists not affiliated with “The Biggest Loser” express doubt about the program’s regimen of severe caloric restriction and up to six hours a day of strenuous exercise, which cause contestants to sometimes lose more than 15 pounds a week. At least […]
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What would you put into a Fitness for Life class?
Everyone’s talking about Lincoln college requiring students with a BMI of 30 or larger to take a “Fitness for Life” class. What I’m wondering is, what would you like to see in such a class? Not what is usually in such classes, or what Lincoln is including — what would rock your socks to see? […]
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Oprah Mag printed the words “fat acceptance”
Yeah, I’m kind of in shock too. It’s in the December 2009 issue. The Fat Fight in the “Connections” section, by Robin Marantz Henig and Jess Zimmerman. Actually it’s a pair of articles: the first is by the mother, Henig; the second is by the daughter, Zimmerman. Henig discusses how she tried to be […]
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Losing Weight Doesn’t Prevent Cancer?
From an article on myths and facts in cancer prevention in The New York Times comes this interesting sidebar. Specifically, among things that have not been shown to prevent cancer are: Exercise Fruits and vegetables Losing weight Low-fat diet So why are these so often recommended? “I think it’s wishful thinking,” said Dr. Susan […]
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ADA: Not all fat people get diabetes
From the American Diabetes Association: In a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of the American Diabetes Association, 2,081 Americans were asked questions to test their diabetes knowledge. The results showed that several diabetes myths and misconceptions are common and diabetes remains a misunderstood disease. […] Myth: If you are overweight or obese, […]
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Some Things Worth Reading
Suethsayings summarized the research on long-term weight loss surgery results. Bree at Life on FATS asks if anyone’s been refused entrance to a nightclub for being fat. (I replied over there but thought I’d try “boosting the signal” ;) Anyone thinking of doing NaNoWriMo? I’ve done it in the past, but not this year. Naafa […]
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Fun: Two Lumps: Fat & Furry
The left leg (which has traditionally been the “good” leg) has decided to give me pain and occasionally not want to work. I’m not thrilled with this. I am exercising carefully and taking ibuprofen and trying to not freak out. In the interest of not freaking out, I’m reading They Still Suspect Nothing: Two Lumps Year […]
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NYT: Comparing Fatness and Shortness
Daniel Engber asks in the New York Times Sunday Magazine why the “reduce obesity” drumbeat doesn’t also spawn a “reduce shortness” drumbeat. We’ve long known that stature can serve as a crude measure of public health. If everyone came from a perfect home, the average height across the population would be a function of our […]
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Health At Every Size “whether you’re 100lbs or 500lbs”
The LA Times ran a couple articles on Health At Every Size this weekend. Diets? Not for these folks Do extra pounds always equal extra risk? One bit that from the second article gave me a smile: “You can’t know just based on a person’s size whether that person has good or poor health habits,” […]
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Things That Make Me Go “Hm”
With the fall TV season starting, it might be good to think about which TV shows you actually want to watch. Kate and Marianne point out in Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere that watching TV encourages you to compare your body to the people on TV – who with very few exceptions are underweight and fat-shaming, […]
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