HealthNotDiets Digest, Issue 40, 2019
November 8 - November 21, 2019
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Articles & Blogs

Facing My Travel Fears: 40, Fat, Black & Vegan
“Sometimes the fear of the unknown can hold us captive to what’s familiar and safe"
https://fatgirlstraveling.wordpress.com/2019/11/14/facing-my-travel-fears-40-fat-black-vegan...

'There's nothing empowering for women about sharing misinformation'
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/there-s-nothing-empowering-for-women...

A global diet—designed to protect the planet—is too costly for 1.5 billion people

Feel the HAES®? What Every Social Worker Needs To Know About the Health at Every Size® Framework
https://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/practice/feel-the-haes-what-every-social-worker...

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-we-fell-for-clean-eating...

Family meals: Challenging the importance of eating together
https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/11/15/1378386/family-meals...

27 Responses to (Never-Ending) Diet Talk
https://humanparts.medium.com/27-responses-to-neverending-diet-talk-8379bd89423b

Here’s Why Gaining Weight Was Actually The Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/body-image-weight...

Eat Like The Ancient Babylonians: Researchers Cook Up Nearly 4,000-Year-Old Recipes
by Maria Goody, Scott Simon and Peter Breslow

Kids will keep developing eating disorders until we address our relationship with food

https://www.womensrunning.com/2019/11/news/why-women-will-save-running...

How Diet Culture Harms Women in Recovery
https://www.thefix.com/diet-culture-harms-women-recovery...

Why, for me, it was worth buying into the celery trend (and a $600 juicer)
“Weight loss is not by any means an indication that a new way of eating is good”
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health-and-wellness/why-for-me-the-celery-trend-was-worth-a-spin...

Ask Yourself This One Question About Exercise
https://medium.com/fearlessly-nourished/ask-yourself...

I Am Forced To Be My Own Doctor Because Of My Weight
https://www.scarymommy.com/weight-sensitive-topic...

Fat Shaming, Internalized Weight Stigma and Late Night Comedy: Not a Laughing Matter

Starving and suffering, these prisoners of war dreamed up recipes for survival
by Farz Edraki, Brett Evans and Sarah Mashman
“The war changed many people's relationships with food, and the POWs were no exception.”
'It would've kept them going': On the verge of starving to death, they dreamed of food
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-10/prisoners-of-war-dreaming-of-food...

Talking to people with body dysmorphia made me question how I see myself
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2019-11-09/ruby-jones-body-image-eating-disorders-dysmorphia...
Research & Clinical Practice

https://www.tandfonline.com...
(sorry, it's behind a paywall but it's a great article if you can access it)

The challenge of keeping it off, a descriptive systematic review of high-quality, follow-up studies of obesity treatments.by Nordmo, Danielsen and Nordmo
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31675146
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