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Enhancing "After" Pictures - Weight Watchers and Surgeons Both Guilty. And...do we have an obesity epidemic, or is our obsession with weight the real disease? Read more.

Due to popular demand, we are leaving Dr. Hessler-Smith's handout, Inward Listening, on the site. This handout was featured in our February '06 E-zine.

A listing of Karin's publications, and on-line articles is now available. Her dissertation abstract, Fat Talk and Related Conversation, is also available.

Karin in the Media

• Starving the Soul, Shape Magazine, 3/06.   
• Disordered Eating Across the Life Span, Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 8/04. Higlighted by the Florida Dietetic Association.
• Foundation for a Healthy Diet, Daily Sentinal, LaMars, Iowa. 4/15/04  
• Health Options, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 16, 2004. Or view the article here.
• Are You Resistant to Physical Activity?, Kenia Penisula Online, Alaska, 2/03   http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/022303/hea_0223030010.shtml
• Are You an Emotional Eater? Learn How to Manage That Hunger , Lamas website http://www.lamasbeauty.com/lifestyle/emotional-eater_print.htm
• Avoiding "Carb Confusion," Satellite Interview, televised nationally, 11/03 http://www.printnewsalerts.com/smt_alert/carbconfusion.htm
• Health at Every Size, Council on Size and Weight Discrimination, 11/02  http://www.cswd.org/HAES.html
• Big News, Radiance Online, Spring 2000 http://www.radiancemagazine.com/spring_00/spring00_bignews.htm

• A commentary on the new obesity guidelines from National Institutes of Health, Journal of the American Dietetic Association. 8/1/99    http://www.highbeam.com/library                                                                             Many dietitians are reluctant to implement the obesity guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This is because of the NIH's reluctance to recognize and admit a number of scientific realities with regards to weight management. These include the absence of an effective long-term safe treatment for obesity, that the pressure on the public to reduce weight has resulted in a new set of problems that are damaging the social and psychological well-being of people, and the need to consider the view that overweight people may be healthy regardless of weight change.                                                                                                                                                                                                    Although dietitians were involved in the development of the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) obesity guidelines (1,2) it would be misleading to imply that all or even most dietetics professionals are eager to implement these guidelines. Many dietitians are concerned about the NIH's unwillingness to recognize and accept the following scientific realities of the current situation with respect to...

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