by Jeanette DePatie, MA, ACE This past week, I was horrified to learn that the upcoming season of the television show “The Biggest Loser” will include children. “Well that’s just… Read More »Roman Coliseum—Children’s Edition
by Deb Lemire As proponents of the Health At Every Size® model, it is often challenging to look beyond the hype and fear mongering that surround the “obesity epidemic.”(1) Our… Read More »Can an Obesity Systems Map be an effective HAES® tool?
ASDAH’s banner displayed at the American Public Health Association Exposition in October 2012. On October 27-31, 2012, the American Public Health Association (APHA) held its annual meeting in San Francisco,… Read More »Hurling HAES Pebbles in the Public Health Pond–Our Adventures at APHA
From time to time the Health At Every Size® Blog will be sharing HAES Matters “roundtable” posts with our readers. The questions that appear in the HAES Matters posts are based on questions generated by participants… Read More »HAES® Matters: Dieting, Disease, and Weight (part 2)
From time to time the Health At Every Size® Blog will be sharing HAES Matters “roundtable” posts with our readers. The questions that appear in the HAES Matters posts are based on questions generated by participants at ASDAH’s… Read More »HAES® Matters: Dieting, Disease, and Weight (part 1)
From time to time the Health At Every Size® Blog will be sharing HAES Matters “roundtable” posts with our readers. The questions that appear in the HAES Matters posts are based on questions generated by participants at ASDAH’s… Read More »HAES® Matters: The Skinny on Fat and Thin
by Jon Robison, PhD, MS From time to time I overhear or read about people discussing whether obesity should be considered an Eating Disorder (ED). I have even seen obesity… Read More »Why Obesity is NOT an Eating Disorder
by Lily O’Hara, BSc, Postgrad Dip Hlth Prom, MPH, PhD (c) In Part 1 of this article I addressed some of the less well known contributors to increased body weight,… Read More »Uncommon knowledge about changes in body weight–part 2
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