So, as I said in my previous post, I’m fermenting quinoa (and barley) into an alcoholic beverage known as chicha. Here’s what it looks like so far:

Slightly blurry photo (impressionist.) That stuff on top is foam (and plastic wrap.)
I’ll probably have to put up some money to get people to drink it, myself included. [...]

A quick rundown on why I have no friends at school:
1. My partner for the food demo project suggested we do quinoa.
2. I wanted to do lard, as you may recall. He said, “What could you even make with lard?” and I was like, “PIE.” It is the word to end all words.
3. He [...]

I was asked, indirectly, to respond to the question “Why do you think you’re healthy?” Definitions of health are important to me, as I’ve spent a lot of time in school and at my job considering what it means to be “healthy,” and watching how those definitions play out in real life. This is what [...]

I’m writing this because nearly every day someone finds my blog by typing the question ‘how can I eat normally?’ into a search engine. This is, to me, equal parts sad and inspiring.
We’ll start with a definition: Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT), which is what a clinical dietitian practices to address a specific disease or condition, [...]

It is sad that this even needs to be said, but given the fact that we essentially live in a health meritocracy, let me be the first to announce:
You are under no obligation to be healthy.
And, as an addendum: even if you were, eating “well” and exercising wouldn’t guarantee your success. There. I’ve said [...]

On Monday, I presented the PSA and the rest of my social marketing campaign to my classmates and professor. I barely slept the night before, I was so nervous. I seriously entertained fantasies of being pelted with things and booed out of the room for ‘promoting obesity,’ or something. At the very least, I expected [...]

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__p.addParam(’allowfullscreen’, ‘true’);
__p.addParam(’allowscriptaccess’, ‘always’);
__p.addParam(’seamlesstabbing’, ‘true’);
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With a special appearance by Maria Callas. See if you can spot her.

Thank you!
And: WARNING! I’ve decided that I will try to host the finished PSA here for everyone to see. I’ve emailed people whose pictures were included (and whose pictures were not already linked from comments or included in Kate Harding’s BMI Project) to get their permission.
But if you DO NOT want your picture to [...]

ATTENTION FAT PEOPLE. Or not-fat people. Rather, attention people of all shapes, sizes, nationalities, colours, sexes, and assorted wonderfulnesses.
I am creating a (fake) Public Service Announcement for one of my courses. I am a nutrition student, and the course is about communicating nutrition messages to the public. My project is to create a social marketing [...]