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The-F-Word
http://www.the-f-word.org/blog
Myriad factors shape our relationship with food. The-F-word strives to provide a platform to explore the circuitous relationship between women, food, power and body image.
Recent Posts
Black college to fat students: Take fat class or don’t graduate
An historically black college in Pennsylvania is preventing more than two dozen seniors from graduating not because of their academic standing or disciplinary measures, but for the simple fact that they are fat. Inside Higher Ed and the Associated Pr...
How to survive Thanksgiving when you’re in eating disorder recovery
Thanksgiving is perhaps the holiday that inspires the most amount of anxiety and fear in the hearts of those (Americans) with eating disorders, especially those of us with bingeing disorders like bulimia or BED who know we can eat the feast twice ove...
Binge eating disorder subject of LA Times special series
In conversations and debates on eating disorders, binge eating disorder (BED) is often the odd disorder out, even though BED is estimated to affect about 10 percent of the U.S. population, eclipsing both anorexia (one percent) and bulimia (four perce...
Oprah to mauling victim: Blind? Disfigured? At least you won’t get fat
You’ve heard of the Connecticut woman who was mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee, right? Charla Nash, 65, was visiting a friend last February when her friend’s pet chimp attacked her, tearing off her nose, lips, eyelids and hands before...
Is Newsweek’s cover of Palin in short shorts sexist?
Even I was kind of shocked by Newsweek’s cover this week of Sarah Palin — not for the image used, which on first glance seemed both puzzling and irrelevant, but for the blatantly biased headline of “How do you solve a problem like S...
Taking the diet out of “diet foods”
I'm sitting at my favorite local indie coffeehouse staring at a large plate of cottage cheese and fresh fruit atop a bed of leafy greens paired with a side of steaming spiced apples and wishing I had my camera because the presentation is as much arti...
This is a fantastic blog. It has helped me to gain control over my own eating disorder. It helps people to accept themselves as they are. Not to have their entire self worth be wrapped up in how much they weigh.
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