Posts Tagged ‘Pop Culture

Happy 2009, everybody! Welcome to the peak of diet pill advertisement and gym membership discount season. As we all know, at the top of countless peoples’ lists of New Year’s resolutions will be “lose weight,” “eat right and exercise,” or something of that nature, accompanied by quitting smoking and getting out of debt. By March, [...]

Much has been written in the Blogosphere about Oprah’s recent ‘fessing up to her obvious weight (re)gain. But Huffington Post contributor Deborah King’s take on it is perhaps the best I’ve read yet. After struggling with an eating disorder and other addictions in the past, King now works as a health and wellness educator. I [...]

http://www.erosblog.com/2008/07/17/chubby-girl-1962/ (WARNING: Link NSFW) If this woman is one of the “chubbies” or “grumpy lumpies” that this horrible excuse for a human being, George Pesante, then who were the “slim darlings of modern fashion”? He never shares with us what these “slim darlings” actually look like, and thus, all we know about them is that [...]


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This is a blog where a roster of three regular writers and several guest writers comment on the latest news about eating disorders. It isn’t just a news feed, nor a personal journal – it’s a hybrid of both. We discuss the news with our own personal spin.

We aren’t journalists or outsiders looking in. We have eating disorders. We know about this illness because we live it. Some of us are thoroughly active in our eating disorders while some are in recovery. Most are in some state in between.

Nothing is off-limits in terms of coverage. We write about everything from the onset of eating disorders to the long-term consequences thereof. We write about all eating disorders, not just anorexia and bulimia. And we write media reviews, short stories, and whatever comes to mind in relation to current events.

This does mean, however, that we may bring up some sensitive topics — things like abuse, rape, self-injury, etc., so tread carefully. We’ll tag posts with the appropriate warning label whenever possible.

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