Starve yourself thin, what’s new about that?
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Blogging Against Disablism Day – link round up
Link round up for blogging against disablism day.
Quick Hit: Hey it’s about HAES
Health at Every Size, for children too.
Quicklink: Ashley Judd’s call to action on The Conversation about women’s looks
Great analysis from actor Ashley Judd in the Daily Beast regarding media speculation about her “puffy face” last month.
Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. asks who’s benefiting most?
Pink cancer marketing globally diverts generous people’s donations away from the organisations doing most of the work towards organisations who are just better at marketing – the filmmakers determined only 15% of monies raised in North America go to research prevention, and 5% to research environmental causes of breast cancer. Does this sound like the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
Conflict of interest, what conflict of interest?
Diet promoter suggests grading students based on their BMI.
2857 days of not waking up with intrascapular pain
This post is part of our Summer Slowdown repost series: in March 2004 I had breast reduction mammoplasty surgery.
Quick hit: Not as easy as calories in =/= calories out
New study shows it is not as easy as calories in =/= calories out for people trying to maintain long term weight loss.
Today in WTF?
Today in WTF?
Quick Hit – 15 Interesting things about vaginas
15 interesting things.