Children and Body Image: 6 Tips to Help Your Child Cope with “Feeling Fat” in a Thin is In World

Fitting In While Standing Out
Volume 1: 6 Tips to Help your Child Cope with Feeling Fat in a “Thin is In” World
By: Dr. Robyn Silverman
originally printed as one of Dr. Robyn’s monthly columns
in Bay State Parent Magazine
You probably wouldn’t believe it if you had heard it yourself. MaryBeth, a mother of three, [...]

Spring Cleaning on your Body Image

Since February is Love your Body month, it’s time to take inventory on how you’re doing in this department. No, no, not how you’re doing in the weight department– but rather, in the “loving your body” department.
The Curvy Life put out an assessment to put you to the test.
Curvy Angela writes:
The first step in decluttering [...]

What do obesity and Bin Laden have in common?

Run! Run for your lives!
An article came out today out of Sydney on yahoo news saying we’re focusing too much on terrorism and not enough on obesity.
Here’s a quote:
Global terrorism was a real threat but posed far less risk than obesity, diabetes and smoking-related illnesses, prominent US professor of health law Lawrence Gostin said [...]

Stepford Children: Retouching your child’s flaws away

Say ‘Cheese!’ And Now Say ‘Airbrush!’
More photo studios are offering to retouch your child’s flaws away. But is digital perfection good for a kid’s self-image? Newsweek has the whole article on retouching your child’s flaws away. What is it saying to our children?Here’s a quote:”It surprises me so much when [...]

How to Look Good Naked

Looks like we’re making progress! But does it take a man to help women feel good about themselves?
Lifetime has adapted a hit show from over the pond– “How to Look Good Naked” and put it on for a body conscious American audience. The show is a combination of a traditional clothing/make-up/hair makeover and [...]

The Fat-o-sphere out in full bloom

There’s been a lot of information about the “fat-o-sphere” which has been highlighted in the New York Times and well as as morning shows such as Mark and Juliet. Now it is the topic of the RedEye (Chicago Tribune) today.

Here are some highlights:
“Welcome to the so-called fat-osphere, a growing online niche where bloggers and [...]

Study suggests that positive body image predicts health

The medical community has been linking Body Mass Index (BMI) to health for quite some time. However, a new study out of Columbia University provides a different answer: Body Image. In particular, those who want to lose weight are more likely to be mentally or physically unhealthy than those who are happy with [...]

Body Image “Post” Card: What’s your secret?

On my google alerts today, I found something that put a shiver down my spine. It was a card written on the “Post Secret” blog. PostSecret is an ongoing community art project that asks people to mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade card. Todays card was related to [...]

Body Image and Fat Aversion Starts in Young Childhood, Part 1

Bias is Born…Out of the Mouths of Babes
There’s been a lot of talk lately about the “Fatosphere” (a term I’m not really into since it makes this one segment of the internet world seem like a strange alternate universe that “actually” believes everyone, including people who are fat, should be treated equally– imagine that), [...]