Love Your Body Day: Interview with Chenese Lewis, Hollywood NOW event organizer
By: Dr. Robyn Silverman
I had the pleasure of interviewing the very beautiful and the very busy Chenese Lewis, actress, radio host, motivational speaker, plus size model– and if that isn’t enough– the creator of the National Organization for Women’s Love Your Body Day event [...]
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Dr. Robyn Silverman
September is an amazing month for action. You can smell it in the air. Back to work. Back to school. Back to…snarky body-bashing comments from “friends,” coworkers, and the girl next door who, as it turns out, isn’t that nice after all.
What are we doing? It’s time to get it together. If women [...]
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Diet Doping: Getting Thin at any Cost
Dr. Robyn Silverman
For many girls and women, “feeling fat” has become a common part of everyday life. Dieting has become normal. Complaining about weight is a social expectation. And doing anything you can to achieve the perfect thin body, acceptable.
A recent online poll of 993 teens and women has [...]
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Ask Dr. Robyn: Does my friend have Diabulimia? Is Diabulimia a “big deal?”
I received a question from Jennifer in NJ whose friend has Diabetes and is currently losing a lot of weight. Jennifer is concerned about whether her friend might have Diabulimia and if her behaviors might be causing a real problem. This video answers, [...]
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Steroid Use in Teen Boys: Continuing the discussion…
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Powerful Parents are certainly a passionate bunch. I guess my article on steroid abuse among teens stirred up some good discussion yesterday in light of the cultural response to body image problems among our youth. Perhaps you were surprised that boys were affected just [...]
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Steroid Use in Boys…furthering the discussion.
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Powerful Parents are certainly a passionate bunch. I guess my article on steroid abuse among teens stirred up some good discussion yesterday in light of the cultural response to body image problems among our youth. Perhaps you were surprised that boys were affected just as girls [...]
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Places around the world (not the U.S.) are finding ways to discourage ultra-thinness and eating disorders in a powerful way.
France:
The Christian Science Monitor reported the other day that you will now we fined (or jailed) if your website or blog promotes ultra thinness or excessive dieting. The promotion of excessive thinness or eating disorders [...]
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Danica Patrick- Sports Illustrated, photographer; Ben Watts
Blog pal, Amy Jussel, of Shaping Youth is calling for my response on the tough topic of Danica Patrick, race car champion.
And a personal invitation for our own Dr. Robyn Silverman at Kiss My Assets, (our newest body image expert) to share her input too (see her new body [...]
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Yesterday’s New York Times highlighted some new research on fat and feminism. Researchers (Viren Swami and team) out of the University of Westminster in London showed that those women who describe themselves as feminists were more likely to positively perceive a wider range of body sizes than non-feminists. The research was published in [...]
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How can we build up our daughters’ self confidence?
Parents can do so much to help our daughters’ thrive. You’ve read volume 1. Here’s volume 2 of raising strong, confident daughters:
(6) Catch your child “being good:” We often are quick to jump when our child is exhibiting poor behavior, however, when our child is making [...]
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