People love to talk. Blah, blah, blah. When it comes to body image, weight, size, obesity, waify models and women, everything gets lumped up together into a convenient black and white argument where fat is bad and thin is good. Ridiculous.
Thank you, Kyle Smith, of the New York Post, for writing another article to fuel [...]
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As the guest body image blogger for today’s End Fat Talk campaign for Fat Talk Free Week, I really got to thinking about the power of that little size zero in the lives of so many girls and women these days. Such a round number, and yet such a strong dictator of straight lines for [...]
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Tots Stress about Body Image
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Yet another study reveals that we’re messing up our children when it comes to body image even when children are as young as age 4. Go us.
An Australian study performed with 53 children across 4 kindergarten classes revealed that parents and teachers are inadvertently sending messages about the [...]
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Mothers can have it touch these days. Not only must they cope with their own body image insecurities, but they must be a positive role model to their daughters.
It’s not that they didn’t always need to think about being a positive role model—of course they did. However, Moms need to cope with the “you [...]
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All teens deal with struggles in their lives. It takes a powerful teen to admit she has a problem, work through her challenges, and use what she’s learned to help others. This article is the result of an interview with Alex Shabo, a teen who is recovering from an eating disorder and helping others [...]
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All teens deal with struggles in their lives. It takes a powerful teen to admit she has a problem, work through her challenges, and use what she’s learned to help others. This article is the result of an interview with Alex Shabo, a teen who is recovering from an eating disorder and helping others [...]
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Christina Ricci, while promoting her movie Speed Racer, has opened up about her battle with the eating disorder, anorexia nervosa. The former child star said; “I was a teenager going through adolescence and at one point, I had an anorexia phase and then I kind of ballooned,” she said.
RIcci says she no longer cares what [...]
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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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A little round up of some body image information that has come out in the last week:
(1) Popular F-Word Blogger sticks it to Self and basically tells the magazine to take some responsibility.
An article in the LA Times reports that Self Magazine, along with the University of North Carolina, published a survey on Tuesday which [...]
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If you thought that only 20-somethings and popular celebrities worried about body appearance, you might be surprised to hear that even seniors have body image woes. While they may focus on different aspects of their bodies than they once did, many seniors still feel pressure to defy age rather than accept an aging body.
It’s not [...]
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