by Jon Robison, PhD In Part II of this series (see Part I here), I summarized the traditional approach to promoting health, based on a Mechanistic Worldview and a Biomedical Model… Read More »WHAT’S MISSING? Promoting Health at the Workplace (Part III)
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA My previous blog post (“The Pursuit of Happiness”) explored dimensions of the “thin equals happiness” meme. At the end, I asserted that the meme actually… Read More »The Pursuit of Coherence
by Jon Robison, PhD In the first part of this 3-part series, we traced the roots of our traditional approach to health promotion and health promotion at the workplace as… Read More »WHAT’S MISSING? Promoting Health at the Workplace (Part II)
by Jon Robison, PhD, MS Like many people in this country, I have a chronic “pre-existing condition” which has me paying exorbitant rates for mediocre health insurance and prohibits me… Read More »WHAT’S MISSING? Promoting Health at the Workplace (Part I)
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA My friend and colleague Bill Fabrey (founder of NAAFA and current Board Member of ASDAH) recently used the phrase Healthier At Every Size in an… Read More »Healthier At Every Size
by Jon Robison, PhD, MS On our listserv this month there was some discussion of a recently published article entitled Financial Incentives for Extended Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial.… Read More »Two for the Price of One!
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA Over the last few days, I have been involved in preparing ASDAH’s “Debate the Weight” response to HBO’s documentary series, The Weight of the Nation… Read More »Top 10 Reasons to Be Concerned About “The Weight of the Nation” Documentary
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?