Skip to content

Tag Archives: fat

More on parents and food anxiety

Utne has a good piece on the parental role in setting children up for eating disorders. I agree with the position that childhood is ground zero for preventing adult obesity and eating disorders. While there are so many causal factors, attitudes towards food set up early in life may be the most important factor of […]

Parents and food anxieties

One of the things that stands out to me when thinking about my childhood is my parent’s attitudes towards my eating habits. You don’t remember theĀ multitudeĀ of meals in your life, save for the highly emotional ones. The ones associated with an important life event – an engagement dinner. A particularly good meal – my first […]

Fat body vs. mind

I have now had a weight problem for thirty years. But what is the problem, really? I have found that it is not so much the weight itself, having had ups and downs and thinner and fatter periods in my life. There were times when you could say that I did not have a problem […]

Why you are fat

I think you’re fat. And, this is why you’re fat.

Where are the fat men?

I rarely see a truly fat man running for exercise. It occurs to me that either: Fat men don’t run Men who run aren’t fat Clearly more fat men should run.