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Fat Panic & Inner Beauty (BOOK EXCERPT)

Posted by Sheryl Canter, June 8th, 2009
Categories: Feeling Fat, Feeling Thin, Tags: ,

There’s a post from me with an excerpt from Normal Eating® for Normal Weight on the Fem2pt0 blog. This is in addition to the excerpts already posted on this Web site.
It’s from the chapter, “Beauty: Inner and Outer”, and it talks about how our culture equates physical beauty with value as a human being.

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Magazines Induce Summer Fat Panic

Posted by Sheryl Canter, June 3rd, 2009
Categories: Feeling Fat, Feeling Thin, Tags: , ,

In case there’s any confusion about the source of the idea: “You can and must look like Miss California”, check out this article. It’s a great analysis of a piece by the editor-in-chief of Women’s Health introducing the May issue. We’re so used to hearing these crazy messages, we don’t even notice how crazy they [...]

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What Does It Mean to You to Be Thin?

Posted by Sheryl Canter, April 29th, 2009
Categories: Feeling Fat, Feeling Thin, Tags: ,

What does it mean to you to be thin? Seems obvious at first – you want to be thin so you look good, right? But when you consider the intensity of people’s desire to be thin, you realize there must be more than “meets the eye”. People view the number on the scale as a [...]

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