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How can you nourish something you hate? Collective Shout colleague and Managing Director of BodyMatters Australasia Lydia Turner has written an important piece for Healthy Weight Week highlighting...
View ArticleOne wanted a bigger bum. One wanted bigger breasts. Both are dead.
Two young women dead thanks to the fetishisation of female body parts British woman Claudia Aderotimi was only 20 when she died last week after travelling to the...
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 ArticleNothing tastes as bad as Lorna Jane co-opting pro anorexia slogan for ad...
Connecting beauty and self-denial: a dangerous approach to health and fitness Eating disorder experts are questioning an image on Lorna Jane’s Facebook of a young woman in exercise gear...
View ArticleIs obesity socially contagious and should we ditch our ‘fat’ friends?
Yesterday dietitian Susie Burrell made the extraordinary claim that obesity is socially contagious in an opinion piece titled ‘Wanna get skinny? Might be time to ditch your fat...
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 ArticleSupport calls for a Senate inquiry into dieting industry
We need change. We need it now. And we need your help to get it. Please join us in our crusade. We are in the midst of a...
View ArticleFat is not a feeling: Why I’m pressuring Facebook to remove body-shaming ‘I...
Fat talk perpetuates and normalises body shame Rebecca Guzelian How does it make you feel when someone close to you tells you they feel fat? As a woman...
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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