Today’s Never Say Diet is about the size discrimination issue that probably makes me the most mad: When doctors compromise the care of their overweight or obese patients because they just can’t see past the fat. Since I’ve started writing …

Even though, I know, you just got all horrified and squirmy when you read that subject line. Don’t get me wrong, I still worry that bathroom scales are mostly used for evil. But how is it any better when …

Another day, another study tying what you weigh to how much you’ll get paid. Here’s why I’m over this trend. …

Lately, women have been talking about dressing rooms like they are the secret killing room in my basement. (Kidding. I don’t have a secret killing room in my basement. Or do I?)

Anyway, I think dressing rooms can be …

Breaking news: That’s so pageant! Is the new phrase I’m trying to make happen, ever since I listened in on the Miss USA press call on Tuesday and Bravo’s Andy Cohen (who apparently, everyone loves? All the entertainment journalists on …

I use the F word a lot when I’m writing about body image, and every so often, my iVillage editor gently takes it out of my copy and replaces it with something softer, like “overweight” or “portly”* because she doesn’t …

Oh sigh. How often have you sat, head in hands, waiting for Apple and Chocolate Cake to fight each other…to the death?

In other news, today’s Never Say Diet post is about why I hate the term “yo-yo diet” and …

And note that I’m saying “health food,” as in things labeled as such (Low-Fat, Light, Lean, what have you). Not healthy food — because to my mind, truly healthy food also makes your stomach happy.

Now that we’ve got that …

My take on MyPlate, the government’s new food pyramid. It’s not perfect — and the meat/soda/processed food lobbies are a big reason why. But I do think it’s a total body image win. Read why on Never Say Diet…

Because, good news: If you have a body, and you’d like to put a bikini on it, then you already have a bikini body. Yogurt commercials and cellulite creams, be damned.

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