by Deb Burgard, PhD I don’t know what HBO’s series, The Weight of the Nation*, is going to say, but if the previews are representative, you might want to use… Read More »Stereotype Management Skills for HBO Viewers
by Lily O’Hara, BSc, Postgrad Dip Hlth Prom, MPH, PhD (c) The ‘common knowledge’ about body weight is that an increase or decrease in body weight is caused by a… Read More »Uncommon knowledge about changes in body weight–part 1
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA Here are some things I know about joy: I know that joy is abundantly available and yet elusive. It arises in the doing, in the… Read More »Joy At Every Size
by Deb Lemire, President of the Association for Size Diversity and Health Those of us who incorporate the Health At Every Size® approach in our work and personal life continually… Read More »A less traveled road
by Jon Robison, PhD “Good nutrition is getting a bad name — one that smacks of rigidity, guilt-making and extremism… Worse still, some eight out of ten (Americans) think foods… Read More »Food Phobic Nation—A Brief History
by Dana Schuster, MS (*Not my natural inclination) I should start off by admitting that I have been described as suffering from “Pollyanna syndrome” along with a type-A personality driven… Read More »Taking the Health At Every Size® Model to School–A Lesson in Patience* and Perseverance
[as demonstrated by Rock et al. (2010) on weight loss results of the Jenny Craig® program] by Deb Burgard, PhD 1. Publish in a peer-reviewed, respectable journal like JAMA. The… Read More »How to Photoshop a Research Study
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA What do we mean by the “health” in the Health At Every Size® paradigm? Let me be clear: I do not think it’s necessary for… Read More »What do we mean by health?
by Jonathan Robison, PhD, MS Gary Taubes was at it again recently, responding to “The Fat Trap” by Tara Parker-Pope spouting the same old rhetoric about how carbohydrates are poison… Read More »The other white powder – sugar and food addiction
by Deb Burgard, PhD If you have grown up in this culture, you probably associate quite a few things with fatness and quite a few of the opposite traits with… Read More »Can you tell anything at all by a person’s weight?