HealthNotDiets Digest, Issue 39, 2019
October 25 - November 7, 2019
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Articles & Blogs

Heed the lessons from the pelvic mesh scandal
https://croakey.org/heed-the-lessons-from-the-pelvic-mesh-scandal...

A dietitian's guide to raising a body-positive child
https://www.ksl.com/article/46664162/a-dietitians-guide-to-raising-a-body-positive-child...

Why the Anti Diet Riot Club is the perfect antidote to diet culture
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/anti-diet-riot-club-interview...

Intuitive Eating Is Transformative and Also Not as Intuitive as It Sounds
https://www.self.com/story/intuitive-eating-and-diet-culture...

Seeing a GP during school lunch: Clinic opens next door to classrooms to help students
https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-25/mabel-park-state-high-school-brings-gp-into-the-school...

On Balance
https://angry-chef.com/blog/on-balance...

13 Things Your Plus-Size Guests Want You to Know This Holiday Season
https://www.canweallgo.com/blog/2019/11/4/host-tips-plus-size-guests-holidays...

How to Support Your Fat Friends, as a Straight Size Person
https://humanparts.medium.com/what-i-appreciate-most-from-thinner-friends...

On (Re)Producing The Fat Stigma You Claim To Be Fighting
by Cat Pausé
“this suggested language change is based on the idea ‘obesity’ is a disease to be cured and fat people are not a natural part of the world. This serves to reinforce stigma, rather than prevent it.”
https://friendofmarilyn.com/2019/10/05/on-reproducing-the-fat-stigma-you-claim-to-be-fighting...

Why don't fictional characters ever have their period?

Searching for a happy ending – the impact of the NDIS on people with rare diseases
by Angela Jackson
“more people in Australia have a rare disease than have diabetes"

“Develop a healthy relationship with food – for your sake and for the sake of your family.”
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/articles/how-to-un-diet-as-a-family...

Embracing ugly in a world that’s tried to weaponize it against me
https://racebaitr.com/2019/10/24/embracing-ugly-in-a-world-thats-tried-to-weaponize-it-against-me...

The Cowpea: A Recipe for Resilience
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-cowpea-a-recipe-for-resilience...

“The surgeries are almost always cosmetic and medically unnecessary.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/ct-life-intersex-surgeries...

'One day, tired of all the teasing, I stopped wearing bathers'
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/one-day-tired-of-all-the-teasing...

Body Positivity Is Lost on YouTube
https://elemental.medium.com/body-positivity-is-lost-on-youtube...

Why spacesuit design choices — not women’s physiques — delayed the first all-female spacewalk
by Loren Gush
“Perhaps the fundamental flaw that has hindered women’s abilities to perform spacewalks is a lack of suits that fit them”
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2019/10/21/20920790/nasa-first-all-female-spacewalk...