Children’s Channel Host Controversy (from BodyImpolitic)

There is a smart and thoughtful post that I must call out today from Body Impolitic on the BBC’s young children’s channel’s new co-host, who was born with a shortened arm.  Tantalizing snippet: What should the BBC executives have said to Burnell? “Sorry, dear, we’d love to hire you, but you don’t have two arms?” Heh. [...]

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Adventures in Adding Fatz to my Diet

Diet – not like a diet (like SlimFast or Weight Watchers) for weight loss.  I mean diet here as simply what I eat… which is whatever I want as per Intuitive Eating. My boyfriend keeps telling me lately that I’m not eating enough food.  Not because he sees me restricting or using eating disordered behaviors, [...]

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Question About Broken Bodies & Famine Response

Commentor Tara had the following feed-back regarding my last post: I am confused. Your body probrably has hundreds of thousands of Calories stored as fat, so why would it keep telling you that it needs more and doesn’t have enough? Is your body broken. One would assume that if your body was in need of [...]

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If It Was That EASY, No One Would Be Fat

MSNBC has a health article claiming that weight loss is most effectively achieved via calorie restriction.  The dreaded “calories in – calories out” phrase is peppered through-out.  Eight hundred and eleven participants were put on four different diets to see if low-fat or high-protein, etc. even matter in weight loss.  This study says the type of [...]

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Happiness With What IS (Awesomeness from WellRounded)

There is a beautiful post at WellRounded today about happiness and our cultural ideal of unattainable perfection.  A teaser tidbit: No diet will slim you into that perfect body to allow you to do all those things you wish you could do.  No amount of wishing you were something else; of looking for something more, [...]

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Acts of self-love beget acts of self-love

(Many thanks to Rita Loyd for allowing me to use her artwork for this post.  Love this piece!)   In August of last year I decided to join a local gym with my husband.  I decided I wanted more movement in my life and I had heard some really good things about a local gym so [...]

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Child Abuse Permanently Alters Brain

 Something neat from the BBC.  [Research] suggests that experience in childhood when the brain is developing, can have a long-term impact on how someone responds to stressful situations. But study leader Professor Michael Meaney said they believe these biochemical effects could also occur later in life. “If you’re a public health individual or a child psychologist [...]

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Weight Watchers LOL & Diet Peer-Pressure

Interesting stat given that in the long-term the overwhelming number of people who go on diets (“lifestyle changes”, etc.) a. don’t keep they weight they lose off and/or b. gain back more than they have lost.  I get the feeling the stat should really say, “96% of members are all whooo hoooo, I’m gonna lose [...]

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Mo’Nique is BEAUTIFUL (Why Is Leg Hair a Headline?)

Stop the presses!  Mo’Nique didn’t shave her legs.  OMG!!!  WHERE IS MY HELMET?  I CANNOT FIND MY HELMET!!!  teee heeeeeeeee Ummm… yeah… this deserves scrutiny.  Right?  Grrrrr.  I’m not sure if Perez is making his comments in a positive or negative way yet.  Maybe he doesn’t know yet either.  But, usually when he spells HOT with [...]

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Placebo for the Masses?

I love House.  Sure, the lead character is some kinda psycho, but the show often makes me think… and I love that.  The last episode was about a priest with some mystery disease killing him.  House (main character) has conversations with the priest about faith and religion.  House is a die-hard atheist and likes to [...]

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