In The News

by Dr Samantha Thomas. Mia Freedman’s appointment as Chair of the Australia’s National Body Image Advisory Group is one of life’s very strange ironies. Let me pose a question. How does someone that writes a blog like Mamamia become the Chair of Australia’s National Body Image Advisory Group?   more...

To weigh, or not to weigh? In an age of fear and media hype about childhood obesity, it’s a loaded question. A parent myself, I understand anxiety about our children’s health. And in an image-saturated culture where ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ seems woefully antiquated, I fully understand how we turn ourselves inside out with worry about how the world will treat our precious charges.   more...

ABC The Drum unleashed. January 22, 2010. By Lydia Jade Turner. This week, another "weightloss" drug is pushed into the spotlight, as a result of the death of a "healthy" 19-year-old girl.   more...

December, 2009. Deerfield, IL. The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), Eating Disorder Coalition (EDC), International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals (iaedp), and the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) have joined forces and are advocating together for a focus on health and lifestyle rather than weight as a measurement of well-being.   more...

by Jean L. Kristeller, Ph.D. Health and Spirituality. A big question that almost all of us face is how we can bring joy and balance back into our relationship with food and eating?   more...

Dieting Does Not Work, UCLA Researchers Report; Laughter the best medicine; Weight swings make gallstones more likely; Girls choose diet of laxatives and pills   more...