Some of us like to laugh at websites like thisiswhyyourefat.com, or watch programmes like Britain's Fattest Man (yes, that's a show. Look for an American knock off coming soon, I'd wager) but this is also the time of year many people make resolutions to "lose weight". Cheap 1980's style infomercials or glitzy advertisements featuring B list yo-yo dieting celebs stalk the land like two giant...
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Isabelle Caro, a Marseilles born actress and model who became an international symbol for her struggle with anorexia, has died after spending about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease. She had recently returned to France from working in Tokyo. Anorexic since 13, in 2006 Isabelle fell into a coma when her weight dropped to 25kg. She fought the eating disorder and announced...
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It;s now a little more than 3 months since I halted my starvation project. I've regained 30 lbs, some from bulging thigh muscles from all the cycling I'm doing and some from other not-so-firm bulges, the result of my body panicking and storing fat in case I decide to be an idiot and starve myself again. A bike store near me called Bike Doctor equipped me to speed my recovery and help me...
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You know, the sand is running out of the hourglass, so I want to look back and say "See, I did that. That was me. I was reckless and I was wild, and I fucking did it." ~ Jamie Lee Curtis as Helen Tasker in True Lies I recall reading a blog post, years ago, by a young man who was so excited to see the new Star Wars: Episode I movie when it was about to be released. He also talked about his...
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You don't have to look very far to see someone who will say anything to avoid being responsible for their own actions. In some cases it's that person ordering a supersized meal at a fast food restaurant as part of their dialy routine, who claims "genetics" are responsible for their weight problem. In some cases it's a friend or loved one who announces diets or New Year's weight loss...
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Going to the gym can be a chore, but once you've done an hour or so the thrill of having burned off 1000 calories and feeling toned and in good shape feels wonderful. But for an anorexic it's dangerous. Getting inside the mind of an anorexic is hard to describe, but the combination of an excercise machine - with its fancy buttons and programmes, its timer and its calories burned tool is a...
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It's September, and for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that means one thing - winter's coming. Ok, so it means more than one thing, but the fact is that the cold weather will be here before we know it. One of the challenges of eating right during the winter is, oftentimes, convenience - there's no food in the house, and we don't want to brave the cold weather to get something from the...
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The other day on Twitter people were talking about the so-called Lemonade Diet. Originally made popular in 1976 by Stanley Burroughs, this out-dated diet was re-released and re-popularized in 2005 with a new, more modern look in the form of Peter Glickman's book Lose Weight, Have More Energy, and Be Happier in 10 Days. The book includes information on the obesity epidemic, toxins in foods,...
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Until relatively recently in human history, salt was a precious commodity. Urban legend has it that Roman soldiers were given money specifically to buy salt or were paid with salt, thus the word 'salary,' from the Latin salarium, and it's why we say someone not good at their job isn't worth their salt. Obviously if you had to fight barbarian hordes to buy substantial quantities of the stuff,...
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Wait, what? Oh, right. Your pants lie to you. For years we males have been baffled by women's sizing systems. I mean, how someone can be a size negative one and still occupy three dimensional space makes as much sense as a left handed hammer. "Not us" we told ourselves. "Our pant sizes are just waist circumference in inches, by inseam in inches." As it turns out, that's...
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