25 Nov, 2024
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GLP-1 Drugs and Celebrities | Childhood Obesity News

In the old days, meaning the late 60s and early 70s, adherents of the fat acceptance movement could be found at public protests, throwing diet books and pictures of Twiggy into bonfires, as if they were draft cards. Nowadays, writer Shane O’Neill suggests, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance has mellowed into a group […]

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An Eating Disorder in My 40’s? | ANAD

Though I’ve only been medically recognized with anorexia for two years now, I truly don’t know when my eating disorder began. I don’t know where the “line” between healthy and disordered lies…but I have never really had a positive relationship with food.  It was a slippery slope; a slow descent at first. From my earliest […]

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August 1, 2018: 182 Pounds

Yes! August 1st brought me to 182 pounds, which is a loss of 3 pounds for the month of July! I feel amazing, I am so happy that this time I am not white knuckling it through weight loss, just trying to hang on and force myself to lose more. If I never lose another […]

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Why We Disagree With The Film “Fed Up”

Some of you may have seen the documentary Fed Up, which tells us “everything we’ve been told about food and exercise for the past 30 years is dead wrong.” We respectfully disagree. Before we well you why, here’s the premise of the film in a nutshell: Made by director Stephanie Soechtig, executive producer and narrator […]

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What Is the Planetary Diet? A Dietitian Explains

Everybody wants to be healthy. And if you’re like most people, you care about the planet’s health, too. New research shows that one specific way of eating could actually help your body and the earth at the same time.  A recent study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the Planetary Health […]