“No one wants to see curvy women,” Karl Lagerfeld, as quoted on the website of news magazine Focus on Sunday.
I just love it when a man tells me what women think. Especially when it comes to my body. Remember “no means yes?” This is along the same lines.
“You’ve got fat mothers with their bags of [...]
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Have you seen this? In the Netherlands, Fitness First, a large privately owned health club group, decided to make an interactive advertisement as a push to get more people in the gym. What do you think? Barbaric and body bashing or necessary to make people more aware of their weight (as if they already aren’t???).
As [...]
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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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Dr. Robyn Silverman
I’ve been talking to some women and girls lately about their “weight secret.” It started because, even though they say they were outraged by the flack Jessica Simpson is receiving over her recent weight gain, some say that would like to be thinner.
Here are a few of the latest weight secrets:
(1) “There [...]
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What is Diabulimia and how do I know if I should be concerned?
Dear Dr. Robyn,
My best friend was diagnosed with Diabetes about a year ago. She was always pretty skinny but since she was diagnosed, she started to put on weight. I know this made her kind of freak out a little even though [...]
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The High Cost of Beauty: Giving up Wealth, Health, and Happiness
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Friday Musings…
In 7th grade, one of my best friends complained that she needed a nose job. “It’s too big!” I thought she was beautiful. But I’ll never forget what she told me; “Every time I look in the mirror, all I see [...]
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Why Girls are Confused…again: Body Size Messages
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Friday Musings…
With so many pictures in the press indirectly suggesting to girls that “this very thin body is what is beautiful,” and messages telling them 101 ways to lose weight, tone up the flab, and be attractive to boys, it’s easy to figure out why [...]
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ADHD and Weight in Children…and other facts about ADHD in kids
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Given the “war on obesity” and the increasing number of children being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the results of a recent study is a real double whammy. According the July issue of Pediatrics, children with ADHD have a 50% [...]
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ADHD and Weight in Children…and other facts about ADHD in kids
Dr. Robyn J.A. Silverman
Given the “war on obesity” and the increasing number of children being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), the results of a recent study is a real double whammy. According the July issue of Pediatrics, children with ADHD have a 50% [...]
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Foe me, this is an issue of “worth” rather than “weight.”
As we’ve covered in the past, A 2001 Harvard School of Public Health study found that for each soda or juice drink a child drinks a day, the child’s odds of becoming overweight increase 1.6 times.
Two angry Moms, Amy Kalafa and Susan Rubin, would [...]
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