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Posted by Sheryl Canter, February 18th, 2010 Categories: Social Norms & Bias, Tags: fat prejudice
A few days ago, director and comedian Kevin Smith was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight for being too fat. He’s been speaking out about it, calling it “humiliating” and “the worst thing that’s ever happened to me.” Two days ago on Mardi Gras (aka Fat Tuesday), late night comedian Craig Ferguson made fat prejudice [...]
Editing Note: This post and the previous post originally were one long article.
In my previous post I explained why nutrition information has a role in the non-diet approach – not as a rule, but as information. But with all the contradictory nutrition advice out there, is there really such a thing as “good nutrition”? There [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, October 9th, 2009 Categories: Nutrition (what you eat), Tags: non-diet approach
Editing Note: This post and the next post originally were one long article.
For people who have sworn off weight-loss diets, principles of nutrition can seem like just another set of eating rules to rebel against. The idea behind the non-diet approach is that you can trust your inborn body wisdom to tell you when and [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, September 23rd, 2009 Categories: Lifestyle (what you do), Tags: exercise
I’ve never been especially athletic. I don’t enjoy sports, and I was always the last one to be chosen for teams in gym class. It wasn’t that I was particularly fat or out-of-shape as a child. I was a little chubby, but I was fit from the ballet classes I attended from the age [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, September 15th, 2009 Categories: Nutrition (what you eat), Social Norms & Bias, Tags: fat prejudice, food cravings
I just finished reading Gary Taubes’ book, Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s superbly researched and contains crucially important information, but it’s a hard read – long, dense, meandering, and repetitive. I fear that many people won’t get all the way through it. And while the extensive detail on studies is great, the forest gets a [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, June 23rd, 2009 Categories: Nutrition (what you eat), Tags: compulsive overeating, food cravings
In my previous post, I talked about how eating processed food can make people fat. Processed foods are fabricated in labs, specifically and deliberately to use our body wisdom against us. The weapons they use are fat, sugar, and salt, which trick us into overeating. From the chapter on Stage 4 in Normal Eating® for [...]
What makes people fat are the two main factors that interfere with body wisdom:
Emotional Eating and Compulsive Overeating – Eating when you’re not hungry, to meet emotional needs and cravings.
Processed Food – Processed foods are engineered to pervert body wisdom so people eat more.
Body wisdom is an inborn attraction to the foods that our body [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, June 20th, 2009 Categories: Social Norms & Bias, Tags: myths and facts
An attempt to maintain a lower-than-normal weight triggers emotional eating and eating disorders in millions of people. Being very thin is not healthy, which suggests it’s not normal or natural. From an article about a new Japanese study:
“People who are a little overweight at age 40 live six to seven years longer than very thin [...]
Posted by Sheryl Canter, June 15th, 2009 Categories: Social Norms & Bias, Tags: fat prejudice, non-diet approach
I watched the segment on Good Morning America this morning about the Fat Acceptance movement. I’m all in favor of accepting yourself and loving yourself no matter what your weight. But I was very disturbed by the clear implication that if you stop dieting, you will gain 100 pounds like Marianne Kirby did. This is [...]
We just observed Memorial Day in the U.S., and that means summer with its skimpy clothing is just around the corner. This triggers fat panic in many people, but don’t start thinking about dieting again. Diets don’t work, and there’s another way that does.
We’ll start with the goal: How much should you weigh?
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