ED Bites

I have a few friends, many of whom are far, far smarter than I am. One of my friends is a pediatrician and asked me an interesting question today. With her permission, I’m posting it here to get your broader input on the issue: For starters, I blogged about the study my friend was referring [...]

I’ve never really liked the terms “overweight” and “underweight,” at least how they’re used by the medical establishment. But for the longest time, I really couldn’t put my finger on why. Part of it, I knew, were the way that these terms have so much judgment attached to them–that if you’re not “normal” weight, you’re [...]

It seems you can’t go anywhere without seeing “healthy eating,” anti-obesity, weight loss messages. They’re literally everywhere. Besides the magazines in the grocery store checkout lines, Pinterest boards, and mass media, children are receiving lots of these messages in school. More and more schools, it seems, are limiting sweets that can be brought in for [...]