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Highlights from JunkFoodScience:

Oct 04, 2007 15:47

Highlights from JunkFoodScience:
Written by Sandy Szwarc, RN, BSN, CCP
Sandy is a registered nurse with over 27 years in neonatal intensive care and pediatric emergency triage, medical outreach education and preventative health communications. She’s also a certified culinary professional, food editor, book author and winner of the international 2004 ( Read more... )

health, news, appearance, maddie, bitching, weight

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jcheshire October 4 2007, 21:11:11 UTC

Scientific American's entire September 2007 issue was focused on this. I encourage listening to this episode of their weekly podcast.

aerlewis October 5 2007, 17:42:15 UTC

At which point I take issue with the BMI charts. AGAIN ( ... )

jcheshire October 5 2007, 17:53:15 UTC

Ugh. I'm so sad to hear Maddie's already dealing with that. Perhaps it's time to show her the power of Photoshop and how girls don't really look like those anorexic people?

aerlewis October 5 2007, 17:59:19 UTC

Heh. I'm thinking that a good portion of it is all of the little women in her classes. I won't say girls because so many of them are FAR too disinterested in being little girls and are allowed to be small women instead. The kinds of stuff that our parents wouldn't have let us get away with is NORMAL today. The attitudes, the dress, the mannerisms, the conversation for god's sake!

There's another portion of it that were addressing, and that all of the weight loss and sexual enhancement commercials on TV. We try to pause and skip as many of those as possible. It's truly ridiculous.