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- If only poor people understood nutrition! - 182 comments
- Eat food. Stuff you like. As much as you want. - 248 comments
- The Body of Marilyn Monroe - 9 comments
- The rules of nutrition. - 93 comments
- "Worthless" foods. - 298 comments
- Dear Fat Nutritionist - You're pretty good looking (for a girl.) - 85 comments
- If I eat more than you, it's for one simple reason. - 12 comments
- Food isn't poison. - 99 comments
- All women are real. - 13 comments
- Dear Fat Nutritionist - Am I making my kid fat? - 20 comments
Articles & Evidence
- A qualitative investigation of dieting, weight loss, and physical exercise, in obese individuals – Nutr J, 2008
- Adolescent beverage habits and changes in weight over time – Am J Clin Nutr, 2009
- Behavior modification in the treatment of obesity: the problem of maintaining weight loss – Arch Gen Psychiatry, 1979
- Benefits and adverse effects of weight loss – Ann Intern Med, 1993
- Biomedical rationale for a wellness approach to obesity – J Soc Issues, 1999
- BMI and all-cause mortality among Japanese older adults – Obesity, 2010
- BMI and mortality: results from a national longitudinal study of Canadian adults – Obesity, 2010
- Body energy homeostasis – Appetite, 2008
- Body image of chronic dieters – J Am Diet Assoc, 2004
- Body weight dynamics and their association with physical function and mortality in older adults – J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2010
- Cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic risk factors in obesity – Curr Opin Lipidol, 2009
- Changes in Energy Expenditure Resulting from Altered Body Weight – NEJM, 1995
- Confronting the failure of behavioral and dietary treatments for obesity – Clinical Psychology Review, 1994
- Decreased energy levels can cause and sustain obesity – J Theor Biol, 2003
- Diet composition and energy balance in humans – Am J Clin Nutr, 1998
- Dieting Does Not Work, UCLA Researchers Report – Newsweek, 2007
- Does physical activity ameliorate the health hazards of obesity? – Br J Sports Med, 2009
- Excess deaths associated with underweight, overweight, and obesity – JAMA, 2005
- Fat Factors – New York Times, 2006
- Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside – New York Times, 2007
- High body mass index does not predict mortality in older people – J Am Geriatr Soc, 2001
- High body mass index for age among US children and adolescents, 2003-2006 – JAMA, 2008
- How effective are traditional dietary and exercise interventions for weight loss? – Med Sci Sports Exerc, 1999
- Identification and characterization of metabolically benign obesity in humans – Arch Intern Med, 2008
- Internalization of weight bias: Implications for binge eating and emotional well-being – Obesity, 2007
- Is the energy homeostatis system inherently biased toward weight gain? – Diabetes, 2003
- Men's preferences in romantic partners: obesity vs addiction – Psychol Rep, 1995
- Modern Science Versus the Stigma of Obesity – Nature Medicine, 2004
- Myths about Diabetes, American Diabetes Association
- New NHLBI clinical guidelines for obesity and overweight: will they promote health? – Am J Public Health, 2000
- NIH Consensus Conference on Obesity: by Whom and for What? – J Nutr, 1987
- Normal Body Mass Index Rather than Obesity Predicts Greater Mortality in Elderly People – J Am Geriatr Soc, 2009
- Obesity, disordered eating, and eating disorders in a longitudinal study of adolescents – J Am Diet Assoc, 2006
- Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic? – Scientific American, 2005
- Obesity: still highly heritable after all these years – Am J Clin Nutr, 2008
- Physical activity energy expenditure has not declined since the 1980s and matches energy expenditures of wild mammals – Int J Obesity, 2008
- Portrayals of Overweight and Obese Individuals on Commercial Television – Am J Pub Health, 2003
- Position of the American Dietetic Association: total diet approach to communicating food and nutrition information – J Am Diet Assoc, 2007
- Reflections on Fat Acceptance: Lessons Learned from Privilege – Linda Bacon, NAAFA Keynote, 2009
- Retention rates and weight loss in a commercial weight loss program – Int J Obese (Lond), 2007
- Science of HAES
- Size Acceptance and Intuitive Eating Improve Health for Obese, Female Chronic Dieters – J Am Diet Assoc, 2005
- The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-related disease – BMC, 2008
- The Determinants of Health – World Health Organization, 2009
- The Epidemiology of Overweight and Obesity: Public Health Crisis or Moral Panic? – Int J Epidemiol, 2005
- The health at any size paradigm for obesity treatment: the scientific evidence – Obes Rev, 2001
- The influence of the stigma of obesity on overweight individuals – Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord, 2004
- The National Weight Control Registry: A Critique – J Nutr Educ Behav, 2005
- The Obese Without Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Clustering – Arch Intern Med, 2008
- The relationship between media exposure and anti-fat attitudes: the role of dysfunctional appearance beliefs – Body Image, 2009
- The relationship between weight loss and all-cause mortality – J Am Geriatr Soc, 2002
- The stigma of obesity: a review and update – Obesity, 2009
- The war on obesity: a social determinant of health – Health Promot J Austr, 2006
- They Starved That Others Be Better Fed – The Journal of Nutrition, 2005
- Weight bias among dietetics students: implications for treatment practices – J Am Diet Assoc, 2009
- Weight change and mortality among older Mexican Americans – Aging Clin Exp Res, 2006
- Weight change, initial BMI, and mortality among middle- and older-aged adults – Epidemiology, 2009
- Weight change, weight cycling and mortality – Eur J Epidemiol, 2007
Beauty
- Athletes of Every Size
- Big Beautiful Women (some are NSFW)
- DEATH FATTIES
- Fatshionista Flickr Pool
- Fuck Yeah Fat Bitch (some NSFW)
- fuckyeahchubbygirls! (some are NSFW)
- Full Body Project
- Happy, Healthy, and Heavy
- hellsyesbethditto
- Here Come the Fat Brides
- hey, fat chick!
- Operation Beautiful
- Shapely Women
- The Adipositivity Project
- The BMI Project
- The Manfattan Project
- Women En Large
Cochrane Reviews
- Advice to reduce dietary salt for prevention of cardiovascular disease, 2004
- Dietary advice for the prevention of type 2 diabetes, 2008
- Dietary advice for treatment of type 2 diabetes, 2007
- Dietary treatment for familial hypercholesterolaemia, 2001
- Effects of low sodium diet versus high sodium diet, 2004
- Exercise for Overweight or Obesity, 2006
- Exercise for type 2 diabetes, 2006
- Interventions for preventing eating disorders in children and adolescents, 2002
- Long-term non-pharmacological weight loss interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes, 2005
Crushes
- Alas! A Blog
- Alfie Kohn
- Attack of the Sugar Monster
- Bad Science
- Big Fat Blog
- Deepti's Solo Show
- Dobledígito
- Ellyn Satter
- Family Feeding Dynamics
- Fat Lot of Good
- Forward – Feminists with Disabilities
- Fugitivus
- Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing
- I Blame the Patriarchy
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
- Junkfood Science
- Kim Brittingham
- Linda Bacon
- List Lust Lost
- Marjorie Ingall
- NCBI ROFL
- Obesity Timebomb
- Overcoming Bias
- Seeworthy.org
- Shapely Prose
- Small and True Things
- Snarky's Machine
- Teaching Tolerance
- The Angry Black Woman
- The Deal with Disability
- The Rotund
- The Science of Food
- this ain't livin'
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Contact Me
If you’re contacting me with general questions or comments, I should warn you that I’m having a hard time responding to all of my email lately. Scroll down for other ways to ask nutrition questions.
If you’re looking to hire me for private nutrition counseling, but have questions or concerns, please contact me at michelle at fatnutritionist dot com. Ditto for media inquiries.
If your email bounces, try this form instead:
If you’re in need of nutritional assistance and don’t want to hire my pansy-ass, please contact a Registered Dietitian in one of the following ways:
In Ontario, call 1-877-510-5102 to ask a question for free.
If you live in a country with universal health care, or if you have a health insurance plan, you can usually get a referral to a RD from your family doctor, and it will either be free or require only a typical copay. Ask your doctor how it works in your area, or contact your insurance company.
You can hire a dietitian in private practice for counseling by searching Dietitians of Canada, the American Dietetic Association, the British Dietetic Association (their search page is called “Dietitians Unlimited”), the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute, the Association for Dietetics in South Africa, the Dietitians Association of Australia, the New Zealand Dietetic Association, and for just about any country — simply do a Google search for “dietitians [your country]” and then, on the website that results, find a link that usually says “Find a Dietitian.”
As always, if you’re looking for advice that will be Health at Every Size-friendly, I recommend seeing a dietitian who is trained in eating disorders. Even if you don’t have an eating disorder, dietitians who are trained this way are more likely to be familiar with HAES principles.
Ideally, I’d recommend finding someone trained in Ellyn Satter’s method (called “Treating the Dieting Casualty” or “How to Eat.”)
If your child is having an eating problem, please contact Ellyn Satter Associates by phone (800-808-7976) or email (info@ellynsatter.com) to get a referral for a dietitian trained in parent-child feeding dynamics. Or talk to Katja! She’s a doctor and I know her and she’s just lovely.
You can also search for Fat Friendly Health Professionals, Health at Every Size Experts, and other professionals in the Health at Every Size Community.
Lastly, you can go here to Ask a Dietitian, but I can’t vouch for whether the advice will be size-friendly.