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Healthy Weight Loss Lessons Learned at Green Mountain

August 31, 2010

Today’s post is by Rebecca Scritchfield, RD, a dynamic young RD who we had the pleasure of meeting and working with last week at Green Mountain.  This is just one of her posts she wrote on her blog Balanced Health and Nutrition about her experience here.  Be sure to scroll down to watch one of [...]

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Are Fat Camps for Kids a Good Idea?

August 3, 2010

Summer is drawing to a close so the topic of today’s post might seem a little late.  But as ABC continues its new show Huge about life at a teenage fat camp, I thought it would be a worthwhile discussion.  Oh, and I also wrote a long post about it yesterday on the blog for [...]

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Honor Your Emotional Eating

July 20, 2010

Today’s post is by Jennifer Joyce, who is currently a staff participant at Green Mountain.  Like so many of us, Jennifer spent too much time taking care of others, then resorting to the comfort of her best friend food at the end of the day. Only when she made peace with the fact that food [...]

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It Happened This Week: Brown Rice, Self Control and Bad Advice

June 25, 2010

Consumer Reports sings the praises of brown rice.
Reality check: College Candy’s blog looks at some of the bad weight loss advice out there.
The Sydney Morning Herald makes a “fatuous argument over slim women” and the endless feedback loop concerning body politics.
Check out this truly inspiring guest post on Mizfit, about trying to [...]

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It Happened This Week: Dethroning Dessert, Strapless Bras, and A Biggest Loser Tells All

June 18, 2010

Diet blog wonders if doctors can fight obesity by teaching patients to cook.
Lane Bryant announces a social networking site for plus-sized women. Would you join?
Golda at Body Love Wellness has an exclusive three-part interview with Biggest Loser finalist Kai Hibbard about why the show gave her an eating disorder. This [...]

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It Happened This Week: Athletes with Diabetes, Al Roker, and Shorts for Every Body

June 11, 2010

Endurance cyclists John Anderson is debunking the myth that people with type 2 diabetes are “fat and lazy.”
Psychology Today talks about Al Roker and the promise and peril of gastric bypass surgery. Surgery only fixes the external problem, not the internal one.
Already Pretty talks about shorts for every body. “Whoever said that certain body types [...]

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It Happened This Week: Beth Ditto and Body Image from a Man’s Perspective

June 4, 2010

Honoring Health defends intuitive eating, and explains why it’s NOT another diet!
Family Feeding Dynamics has tips on how to answer the question, “Mom, what’s a diet?”
William Leith has a bold–if a bit long-winded–article on women and body image in the Telegraph…from a man’s perspective. What do you think of his take?
It sounds simple, [...]

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Margot Magowan on Dieting, Blogs, and Raising Healthy Kids

June 1, 2010

We recently discovered ReelGirl, a blog by writer and commentator Margot Magowan. She also co-founded the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, which provides professional training for young women. We decided to pick her brain about raising three daughters, her favorite blogs, and why dieting bored her to tears.
How do you instill a healthy body image [...]

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College Weight Gain? Try Our Young Women’s Weight Loss Camp this Summer

May 18, 2010

As students across the country cram for finals and stay up all night drinking coffee and eating cold pizza for breakfast (Surely, I can’t have been the only one!) I’m reminded of the unique challenges that  women in their late teens and early twenties face when it comes to maintaining a [...]

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It Happened This Week: Food as Medicine, Andie Mcdowell, and the Pill

May 14, 2010

Diet blog has an inspiring post about getting fit…one step at a time. In time, the writer went from wheezing around the block to training for her first half marathon.
Sherry Mayrent, aka Fat Lady on a Bike, blogs about why she felt  our new Food as Medicine program was right for her, and how she’s [...]

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