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Tag Archives: Obesity

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 […]

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

A mathematician tells it straight: you are fat because there is too much food about. And thus, you eat too much.