I went to the bookstore on my lunch hour and picked up my nutrition book. It is Understanding Nutrition, Ninth Edition by Eleanor Whitney and Sharon Rolfes, copyright 2002.
The first chapter I flipped to, of course, was “Weight Management: Overweight and Underweight” just to see what they’d have to say. Here are some [...]

According to Health Canada’s Vitality program, the way to lead a health life is to do the following:
-Eat well by following Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating,-Be active by making physical activity a part of your everyday life, and-Feel good about yourself. “This means believing in yourself. The best way to do that is [...]

I was bumming around on the NAAFA website because it’s a good source for information. In regards to this organization, I have been somewhat ambivalent. I agree with the overall goal, but there are lots of things I disagree with as well, and I don’t want my own personal goal (to seek the [...]

Continued.
Say a reporter unearths a little-known study that says butter is bad for you. Wow! What a headline. It makes a great story, it sells papers and gets TV viewers. Of course, it’s only one study, and maybe it was done a long time back, but it’s still a professional source. [...]

If you don’t already know, I’m going to be the one to break it to you…and you can trust me on this. Diets are stupid.
The word ‘diet’ has become terribly perverted from its original, life-affirming definition. In the original sense, diet meant: “food and drink regularly provided or consumed; habitual nourishment.” [...]

I meant to track down and post this months and months ago, but never got around to it. I figured I would offer it here for anyone interested, and for future reference (if the need arises.)

“In 1928 pediatrician Clara Davis wondered whether kids, free of Mom’s intervention, would instinctively figure out the best foods [...]

On a whim, I looked up my Chemistry grade online. It hadn’t been posted as of yesterday. Then, there it was: a glorious C minus. Which means, technically, I made it into the nutrition program for September.
Oh, God, thank you so, so much. Thank you for not letting me give [...]

I found a fascinating PDF file* on the internet regarding certain myths about dieting/nutrition. One of the myths mentioned was the oft-quoted “98% of diets fail” statistic. This paper makes a valiant effort to show why the number is a myth but, in my opinion, falls short.
Why? Because they claim the number [...]

I thought I would put up links to some of my favourite nutrition/body image books so people can read reviews about them, or see how to buy them if they’re interested. Some of them are out-of-print but available in really cheap used editions. Cool.

Women Afraid to Eat by Frances Berg, Licensed Nutritionist, founder [...]

So, I tracked back to one more reference citing the “95-98% of diets fail” figure. It is a letter written by one Aldebaran, a person, I think, who was involved in the organisation known as the Fat Underground in the 60s or 70s. This was a rather radical (in both senses of the [...]

I’ve been thinking a LOT about exercise. My body ACHES for it. And now that my biology class is over, I will soon have time to do some fun activities. Yay! Only I need new running shoes, very very badly, and I’m loath to spend over $100 on them. But, [...]

I tracked down one of the sources listed in the “Dieting Continuum” paper for the “95-98% of all diets fail” figure. The book is The Obsession by Kim Chernin, a very good book, in my opinion. I remembered it mainly as a personal memoir, but it actually does have credible sources listed and [...]

“Dear Leslie DiMaggio and other Jenny Craig members,
“…I tell you, if I masturbated into a pillow every time I saw a 400 lb person eating, I’d have a lot of sticky pillows! You fat bastards are sure fucking fat! I know you always say that they can’t stop eating, but you know what shitface? I [...]

In the past, people have commented on how my position on weight is ‘extreme,’ or how the real answer to the question of fat probably lies in between my view (that fat and thin people are equal in health and worth) and theirs (that losing weight is healthier/worthier.) I vowed in the past to [...]