July 22 - 28, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs 8 Signs Of A High-Functioning Eating Disorder by Lauren Schumacker “asking yourself the question of how much of an impact your eating, food, and body image are having on you in terms of mental energy can be important in helping you determine if you should seek help or not.” https://www.romper.com/p/8-signs-of-a-high-functioning-eating-disorder-9802033 The proposal to weigh kids at school is misguided by Kasey Edwards “If these researchers want to come anywhere near our children, they need t

July 15 - 21, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs Teaching mindful eating from a weight-inclusive paradigm by Lilia Graue “it is not weight, but our cultural fixation on it and the behavioral consequences of this fixation, that most often bring about adverse consequences to health. Stigma, discrimination, shame and oppression harm our physical, emotional and social health.” https://www.fiercelyembodied.com/blog/2018/7/13/teaching-mindful-eating-from-a-weight-inclusive-paradigm An open letter to my daughter's camp counselor by Anna Lutz “wh

July 8 - 14, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs You Don’t Have to Feel Beautiful to Care for Your Body by Renee Engeln “take out a pen and paper (or a laptop) and write yourself a letter harnessing the compassion we so often feel for others but fail to give ourselves. You can show your body kindness, respect, and gratitude without changing a thing about how you look.” https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beauty-sick/201806/you-don-t-have-feel-beautiful-care-your-body Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad

July 1 - 7, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! Articles and Blogs In A World Of Watered-Down ‘Body Positivity,’ The Tess Holliday Self Cover Is A Radical Choice by Lesley Kinzel “Women’s media is one of the worst offenders when it comes to making women feel terrible about themselves, and it often does so under a veneer of empowerment.” https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tess-holliday-self-cover-fat-acceptance_us_5b354781e4b0f3c2219f45be Nobody believes that black people are in pain and it's killing us by Jazmine Joyner “it took me literally passing out in

June 24 - 30, 2018 As always, if you like what you read here, please support the original author by liking/sharing/following/up-voting/subscribing directly to their feed. Happy reading! (please note I'll be taking a week off from compiling the HealthNotDiets Digest next week as I'll be in the wilds of Central Queensland on family vacation (read: limited internet and time haha) but will return during the week after with a catch-up double edition) Articles and Blogs Women with disabilities and chronic illness talk self-love and embracing their bodies by Hattie Gladwell “we spoke to a selection of ladies who live with disabilities and chronic illness, both visible & invisible. They opened up ab