CALL FOR PROPOSALSCome Speak—connect with friends and colleagues! DUE: DECEMBER 21, 2017LINK: https://sizediversityandhealth.org/content.asp?id=241 ASDAH is seeking proposals for the 2018 ConferenceAugust 3-5, 2018 – Portland, OR Uniting Against Oppression:Navigating the Learning Curves in… Read More »ASDAH 2018 Conference: Call for Proposals
by Sandra Cruzen In December, the Blog Committee announced our decision to “open up” the blog and ask for submissions from our readers who are HAES advocates/practitioners/activists, but who may… Read More »The Gift of Obesity
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA I recently listened to a panel that took place in February 2014 at AcademyHealth’s National Health Policy Conference. The panel was entitled “Community Health &… Read More »We Only Think We Understand Health Inequities
by Deb Burgard, PhD Masters, Ryan, et al., (2013). “The Impact of Obesity on US Mortality Levels: The Importance of Age and Cohort Factors in Population Estimates.” American Journal of… Read More »Death Threats, Death Anxiety, and Dying While Fat
by Joanne P. Ikeda, MA, RD In the early 1990’s, it became apparent to me that we had no successful treatment for obesity. I came to this conclusion because I… Read More »A Dietitian’s Road to HAES
by Barbara Altman Bruno, Ph.D. I promised many months ago to write a column for ASDAH’s blog. I have thought about the subject not just for these many months, but… Read More »What’ll It Take?
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA There are a number of very real direct “costs” to individuals, communities, and societies resulting from the current “war on obesity.” The direct consequences of… Read More »Opportunity Costs
From time to time the Health At Every Size® Blog shares HAES Matters “roundtable” posts with our readers. The questions that appear in this HAES Matters post are based on questions generated by participants… Read More »HAES® Matters: A Health At Every Size® Model for Our Children
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA A well-known bioethicist named Daniel Callahan recently advocated for the intentional infliction of weight stigma. He has written an article in The Hastings Center Report… Read More »On Ethics
by Fall Ferguson, JD, MA Sometimes I feel that I am witnessing the beginnings of a paradigm shift away from the war on obesity and toward a more diverse and… Read More »Reading the Signs