Dr. Sharma, an Edmonton, Alberta-based obesity researcher (and I think bariatric surgeon?) posted a short but excellent entry about the pernicious effects that weight-loss reality shows like The Biggest Loser promote negative and incorrect attitudes about the obese ( Read more... )

http://lindywest.net/work/entry/hello_i_am_fat/

It's great!!! Via willowing's FB. In response in part to comments like this from Dan Savage's often excellent column:I am thoroughly annoyed at having my tame statements of fact-being heavy is a health risk; rolls of exposed flesh ( Read more... )

A recent conference on nutrition has sparked an intense and interesting debate on the value of low-carb diets to treat obesity. It has drawn in heavy hitters such as Dr. Robert Lustig and Gary Taubes, and gone on to implicate others throughout the nutrition blogosphere such as Stephan Guyenet ( Read more... )

Elisa Zied is a nutritionist whom I just located through the great blog on obesity called Weighty Matters, authored by an Ottawa-based physician and obesity specialist named Yoni Freedhoff. Through this article on food addiction on Zied's personal blog, I discovered this other post on the topic on a different website. From that post comes the ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

The beautiful actress and model Portia deRossi (now known as Portia deGeneres after legally adopting her wife Ellen deGeneres' name last week), appeared on Oprah yesterday to promote her new book Unbearable Lightness and to speak candidly about her battles with anorexia and bulimia. Near the outset of the show, she told a heartrending story about ( Read more... )

Chapter 7 of Roth's Women Food and God begins to deal with the practical application of her approach. She begins by outlining how the way we eat reveals what we truly believe about ourselves here on earth.In the moment that you reach for potato chips to avoid what you feel, you are effectively saying, "I have no choice but to numb myself. Some ( Read more... )

After a bit of digging in my LJ archives, I found that I last wrote about Geneen Roth nearly 4 years ago, probably after I'd been referred to her early book called Breaking Free From Emotional Eating by my psychotherapist. In that entry, I outlined Roth's so-called "eating guidelines" and also discussed an audio lecture series I'd been listening to ( Read more... )

I'm reading a book right now which is making me consider not eating meat more seriously than ever before. It's called Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer, and it's really, really well-written. Also extremely compelling and thought-provoking. I'd like to write at some length about the topic and this book once I'm finished, but this morning's ( Read more... )

I was just corresponding with grammardog about this topic when my mom sent me an e-mail from the Dr. Daniel Amen, who is a psychiatrist that's been doing a bunch of research with brain scans related to various psychiatric and other medical disorders. In the article she forwarded, Amen refers to a book called The End of Overeating by David Kessler which I ( Read more... )