HealthNotDiets Digest, Issue 38, 2019
October 19 - October 24, 2019
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Articles & Blogs
Food Rewards Backfire: What Parents Should Do Instead
by Leslie Schilling
“when we give children a reward of food, without realizing it, we teach them food is something to be earned.”
Dax Cowart, Who Suffered for Patients’ Rights, Dies at 71
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/obituaries/dax-cowart-dead...
300 Pounds and Running, This Marathoner Celebrates Slow Athletes
by Ragen Chastain
“his club is a place where slow runners and walkers will feel supported, train and run races together, hold space at the back of the pack, and be at the finish line for each other.”
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/300-pounds-and-running...
Blood pressure pills 'work better at bedtime'
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-50122964...
Eating disorders: Over-65s unable to access some clinics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/health-50087460...
When the Body Breaks Its Silence
https://catapult.co/stories/when-the-body-breaks-its-silence...
Being Kind to Yourself During a Tough Time
https://blogs.psychcentral.com/weightless/2019/10/being-kind-to-yourself-during-a-tough-time...
Publication is not enough, to generate impact you need to campaign
Dumb luck, nurturing, hard work: how class does not always dictate fate
Dear Problem Patients
by Brianne Benness
“I want you to know that getting more exercise or eating a better diet or improving your sleep hygiene might help you feel better but it might not make any difference at all for you, and that isn’t your fault.”
https://medium.com/@bennessb/dear-problem-patients-4370285f762c
Kidney disease has made me fear what folks will assume about me
by Jarvis DeBerry
“the fear is always there that I will be looked down upon and blamed for my poorly functioning kidneys.”
Fat Girl Working: A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles in the Workplace
by Fluffy Kitten Party
“The modern office can be a minefield for fat employees. From work-sponsored Weight Watchers meetings to water cooler chatter about keto, how the f**k do you survive? How do you advance? How do you thrive? How do you, ahem, get that bread?”
https://fluffykittenparty.com/2019/10/19/fat-girl-working...
The Feminist History of Fat Liberation
by Sarah Simon
“Fat liberation’s roots are in the 1960s, when the emergent Fat Acceptance Movement aimed to celebrate fat bodies and remove stigma from fatness in a long-term and meaningful way.”
https://msmagazine.com/2019/10/18/the-feminist-history-of-fat-liberation...
A Strange New Culprit Behind Eating Disorders
by Olga Khazan
“The diagnosis of an eating disorder tended to happen soon after the infection took place, such that the girls were at their greatest risk of developing one within the first three months after being hospitalized for an infection"
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/10/infections-eating-disorders...
Children presenting to homeless shelters unable to chew or swallow solid food
by David Raleigh
“In hotels, families have no access to cooking, refrigeration or (food) storage facilities, so they cannot cook or prepare lunches, and that’s really debilitating, and, it is de-skilling parents and knocking their confidence”
https://amp.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/children-presenting-to-homeless-shelters...
We Found Over 700 Doctors Who Were Paid More Than a Million Dollars by Drug and Medical Device Companies
by Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber & Ryann Grochowski Jones
“Our findings suggest that pharmaceutical promotion should be met with healthy skepticism”
Research & Clinical Practice
Self‐report dieting and long‐term changes in body mass index and waist circumference
by Sares-Jäske, Knekt, Männistö, Lindfors & Heliövaara
"during the follow‐up, BMI and WC [waist circumference] increased more in dieters than in non‐dieters, suggesting that dieting attempts are ineffective in the long term among the general population."
Sares-Jäske L, Knekt P, Männistö S, Lindfors O, Heliövaara M. Self-report dieting and long-term changes in body mass index and waist circumference. Obes Sci Pract. 2019;5(4):291–303. Published 2019 Mar 26. doi:10.1002/osp4.336
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC...
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