MEDIUM // AUGUST 2019
Anorexia has serious implications at any weight, but heavier patients face a pervasive, harmful stigma
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MEDIUM // AUGUST 2019
Anorexia has serious implications at any weight, but heavier patients face a pervasive, harmful stigma
BITCH // FEBRUARY 2019
Mostly white, mostly male, mostly thin food writers and chefs have turned being thin—and eating in the labor-intensive way they think guarantees thinness—into a moral imperative.
Diets, detoxes, and wellness plans give you lots of rules to follow about eating. But you were born knowing how to have a healthy relationship with food.
MEDIUM // NOVEMBER 2018
As locavorism, veganism, and other healthy food trends took off, some of the people who pushed them the hardest suffered the most.
MEDIUM // JUNE, 2018
Our newest eating disorders feed off our cultural obsession with healthy diets.
PARENTS // APRIL, 2018
With my first pregnancy, I did everything right, but I still couldn’t protect my little girl. Here’s how I learned to embrace the imperfect.
CHOICES // JANUARY, 2018
The buff bods filling your social feed might seem like healthy motivation, but you may be shocked by how staged they can be.
HEALTH // OCTOBER, 2017
Still beating yourself up about that third slice of pizza? Get over it. Letting go of food guilt and eating what you want is the healthiest food move you can make.
BUZZFEED // MARCH, 2015
I’d always been self-conscious about my abdomen. When I got endometriosis, everyone else became conscious of it too.
MARIE CLAIRE // AUGUST, 2014
Are BMI charts a load of BS? New research shows that good health may have nothing to do with your body mass index.
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