Is being overweight really a bad habit? A few weeks ago, I read a featured article on Yahoo.com entitled “Making up for Bad Health Habits.” My eyes closed and opened again repeatedly in disbelief when I saw “Being Overweight” as the #5 bad health habit listed in this editorial along with “habits” like #3 Smoking [...]

In the News: Call overweight people ‘fat” instead of ‘obese’, says British Public Health Minister, Anne Milton. Her reasoning: “The former nurse said larger people were less likely to bother to try to lose weight if they were told they were obese or overweight than if the doctor was blunt and said they were ‘fat’.” [...]

Did you know that May 6th is International No Diet Day(INDD)? I was very excited to learn about this observance on Sheryl Canter’s Normal Eating blog last year. Canter wrote that Mary Evans Young, the creator of International No Diet Day, indicated that the “goals for INDD are to celebrate natural body diversity, promote positive [...]