Some outstanding weekend reading and listening for those who care about the...
First up, Lydia Turner (discovered here first!) in ABC’s The Drum Unleashed today about the failure of “weight-loss” dietary products and the death and injury they cause. Then Julie...
View ArticleMaggie is fat and its all her fault: new diet book for children puts them in...
Because children don’t already feel bad about themselves enough, there’s a new book just about to be released titled Maggie Goes On a Diet. I asked Collective Shout...
View ArticleHow Thinspiration Sites Hurt Us: recovering eating disorder teen speaks out
As a young woman in recovery, seeing others succumb to such behaviours is triggering, distressing and saddening Rebekah McAlinden Three years ago, if you had logged onto my...
View ArticleDolly revives model search: but at what cost?
Sunday Herald Sun, March 25, 2012 This month at Melbourne Westfield Fountain Gate, Elodie Russell beat 500 other teens to be named Victorian state finalist in the new...
View ArticleRejection, pain, bullying, heartbreak: former Dolly model search entrant...
‘I was never as happy or as sure of myself after that. It was just too big of a let-down, because it wasn’t a rejection from a high...
View ArticleThe Biggest Loser – is it making us sicker? MTR in Sunday Herald Sun
Tacky show is not worth the weight REALITY weight-loss show The Biggest Loser claims to be all about health – leading a new “social movement” against the “obesity...
View ArticleHow Biggest Loser fat shaming hurts us: another eating disorder survivor...
Following my Sunday Herald Sun column critical of ‘The Biggest Loser’ last week , I heard from a number of women in recovery from eating disorders, who wrote...
View ArticleHow a chocolate bar helps me stay healthy: eating disorder survivor concerned...
‘A chocolate bar every now and then won’t kill me, but not eating a chocolate bar every now and then will strengthen my eating disorder, which in turn...
View ArticleWeight Watchers accused of contributing to disordered eating and body shame...
An open letter to Weight Watchers International By Sarah McMahon I discovered today that Weight Watchers International is offering free membership for teenagers aged 13 to 17 under...
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