January 18 - January 24, 2019 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 & Blogs How to Make Kids Comfortable in Their Own Bodies by Melinda Wenner Moyer "encouraging kids and adolescents to lose weight or criticizing their weight incites negative self-perceptions and disordered eating.” https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/child-body-image-

January 11 - January 17, 2019 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 & Blogs Healing alone: the story of a first-year doctor and a widower in hospital by Isabel Hanson and Safdar Ahmed "The proudest day of Grace’s life was graduating as a doctor. Then she began treating patients" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2019/

January 4 - January 10, 2019 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 & Blogs How 'weight bias' is harming us all by Sara FL Kirk, Angela Alberga, Erin Cameron, Mary Forhan, and Shelly Russell-Mayhew. ”research evidence has firmly refuted the effectiveness of body shaming as a motivator for weight loss. In fact, it has the opposite effect, doi

December 27 - January 3, 2019 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 & Blogs It’s OK That I Don’t Drink. It’s Not OK That You Ask Why. by Beatriz Alegria ”The truth is that you don’t know what is happening in a person’s life when you decide to ask why someone doesn’t drink. A person can be sober for many different reasons....Sober people don