You are what you watch.
UCLA School of Public Health released a study this month providing additional details to the link between television viewing and childhood obesity. It demonstrates that the link is not all about the amount of TV watched, but rather, the number of junkfood commercials witnessed by the viewer over time.
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As we’ve been discussing open-mindedness and opening up a few cans of worms this month, I thought I’d bring another baffling issue to light. There has been a great deal of debate about a man, categorized as obese, who was recently a passenger on a plane when a flight attendant too this picture.
According to Kieran [...]
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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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The Avatar Diet: Does this Avatar Make My Butt Look Big?
Dr. Robyn Silverman
Trying to get rid of that belly fat? Looking to thin down those thighs? Want to straighten out your body image and “combat obesity” while looking at your computer screen? It’s time to join the virtual world!
If you were ever wondering if a [...]
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Too Fat to Be Surgeon General?
Discriminatory Claims Circulating Against Dr. Regina Benjamin’s “Fitness” to Be Surgeon General
Dr. Robyn Silverman
There have been some unfortunate derogatory groans about Dr. Regina Benjamin’s Fitness to be President Obama’s pick for Surgeon General. Her weight is throwing opinions of her fitness for the job off kilter.
Case and point from one [...]
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Dr. Robyn Silverman
Jessica Simpson has been spotted ***gasp*** looking heavier than her ultra-skinny Dukes of Hazzard daisy-duke wearing self. Shall we call out the calvary? The farm? Has everyone gone insane?
We just went through this whole thing with Jennifer Love Hewitt– didn’t we?
Media outlets are shouting it from the roof tops– like this one; “Jessica [...]
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Media Exposure Causing All Sorts of Problems for Children
Dr. Robyn Silverman
Well, we knew it was a problem for our kids to be exposed to too much TV– we’ve heard it associated with poor body image and pressure to grow up too fast in previous articles.
Now– more problems. A study has been released that shows that [...]
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Just a few more reasons to turn off (or at least limit) the TV
Dr. Robyn Silverman
A study has been released that shows that children who watch a lot of TV, play a lot of video games, and spend a lot of time surfing the web are more likely to be in for lots of [...]
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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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I’m not sure how many of you know, but I’ve been studying girls, body image, confidence and success for quite a long time. In fact, a good chunk of my work at Tufts University was on how girls feel they “fit in” to a culture that tends to sensationalize thinness and to reject people the [...]
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