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Book Reviews

A Love Letter To My Behind

April 14, 2009

Today’s guest post comes courtesy of Dara Chadwick, author of the forthcoming book, “You’d Be So Pretty If…Teaching Our Daughters to Love Their Bodies–Even When We Don’t Love Our Own” She’s got a great blog that we encourage you to check out. Here’s Dara’s “Love Letter to My Behind”: On Monday, I wrote about turning [...]

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It Happened This Week: Diabetes Books, Frozen Goodies and Reality Shows

April 3, 2009

We’re jazzed that sustainability maven Alice Waters has introduced a new line of frozen foods. Each entree comes with an “oven-ready terra-cotta plate rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with salt” and “laden with seasonal vegetables.” Now that sounds like a winner! Link via Civil Eats. Diabetes Mine reviews the Real-Life Guide to Diabetes, recently published [...]

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Women's Healthy Lifestyles: Self-Esteem & Loving Ourselves

November 5, 2008

We've written a lot about self-esteem and self-acceptance over the years we've had this blog.  The issue is that we spend our time apologizing for who we are because we are ashamed or otherwise feel bad about our body size.  But for the last 36+ years, we at Green Mountain at Fox Run have been [...]

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More on Healthy Weights & Reading

October 22, 2008

A couple weeks ago, I posted about research that showed reading books that young girls could identify with helped improve self esteem and might be a good way to reach them with helpful fitness and health information. Emphasis on the helpful, which to us at Green Mountain means health at every size [HAES] messages. For [...]

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For Healthy Weight Loss, Read a Book?

October 8, 2008

According to a women’s health website, Duke University researchers this week released results of a study that showed young girls (age 9 to 13) who were part of a weight loss program fared better after reading a novel that featured a story line about a young large size girl who worries about going on an [...]

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Triggers for Emotional Eating

April 1, 2008

Emotional eating is something we all engage in from time to time. For example, it’s normal to celebrate with food, and sometimes nothing is more comforting than food. Still, it can get the best of us if we turn to food too often. Annette Colby, PhD, nutritionist, therapist and author of several helpful books that [...]

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Requiem for a Fad Diet Author

October 31, 2007

I just learned that the author of the Beverly Hills Diet died a few days ago. There’s nothing in particular I have to say about this, or the diet, that wasn’t brilliantly summed up in a post on diet blog. Briefly, the post talks about formulas for these types of books: pseudo-scientific theories, celebrity testimonials, [...]

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Learning to Cook for Healthy Weight Loss

October 17, 2007

Here’s a bit of weight loss information you might already know about: The research is pretty clear — those of us who eat out more often seem to be destined to have a harder time maintaining a healthy weight. And when it comes to healthy weight loss — fuhgeddaboutit! (Okay, so the Sopranos are over, [...]

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Healthy Eating or Disordered Eating in Teens?

October 10, 2007

We get a lot of questions from our participants at Green Mountain at Fox Run about how to help their children avoid eating and weight problems. It’s a good question. “Since the 1980s, disordered eating has become so common that it affects the majority of adolescent girls,” according to Marcia Herrin, EdD, an eating disorders [...]

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Give Your Daughter the Gift of a Positive Body Image

July 17, 2007

101 Ways to Help Your Daughter Lover Her BodyBy Brenda Lane Richardson and Elane Rehr From birth to her teenage years, help your daughter to develop the confidence, physical strength, emotional maturity and respect for her body. You may even pick up a few pointers on treating yourself more kindly too! This book shows you [...]

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