Check out the research that supports attuned eating (typically called intuitive eating), as well as the research that no one seems to want to talk about--dieting increases the risk you will gain weight!
Thin Mints Get Chewed Out - It’s Girl Scout cookie season, and the Food Police, backed up by the Cookie Cops have their sirens on full blast. Enjoy an editorial on this "cookie crime"!
Girls Who Weigh Often More Likely To Gain Weight - Teen girls who frequently weighed were more likely to resort to unhealthy dieting measures. Some ended up gaining close to twice as much weight! 12/06. (Especially interesting after reading our Ezine, Daily Weigh-ins and Green Gum!)
The Center for Consumer Freedom regularly exposes The Obesity Mafia. A recent article, Life Expectancy: Another Obesity Myth Debunked, discusses "a deeply flawed study" in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) which relies on "collective judgment" rather than empirical, scientific evidence.
International Obesity Task Force Exposed! - this supposed independent think tank with ties to the World Health Organization has relied heavily on funding from the weight loss drug industry. Original article in British Medical Journal.
Intuitive Eating - the most effective way to manage weight and heal eating problems!
Diets Cause Weight Gain in Children
Parent's Impact on Child's Weight
Negative Ramifications of Dieting Besides Weight Gain
If you are worried that an extra ten pounds will make you unhealthy, you've been duped. If you believe you must lose that 50 pounds to get healthy, you've been duped. We seldom get the whole story about "obesity," dieting, and thinness. Check this out!
CDC Study Overstated Obesity as Cause of Death
What You Do Not Hear about the "Obesity Epidemic"
Fatness Does Not Necessarily Equal Unhealthy
Miscellaneous "Obesity" Stuff
Why discuss all this? So that you can roll your eyes at the insanity of our thin-obsessed, phat-phobic world. So that you can know that you do not need to be stick-woman, or buff-thin-man to be okay. Read on!