The Walking Dread
January 21, 2014 by Deah Schwartz
Filed under Body Image, Weight Stigma
It is Healthy Weight Week. Because I have written about HWW for the last three years (see archives of Tasty Morsels) I won’t spend a great deal of time explaining it here. In a word HWW was developed over 20 years ago by Francie Berg to raise awareness of the damage that diets can cause […]
Dr. Deah ja Vu (5)
January 2, 2014 by Deah Schwartz
Filed under Activism, Body Image
If you are having that strange feeling that you have been here before, worry not…there is a very good likelihood that you have! Every January, for the past 5 years I have posted this video on my Facebook page and blog. Each year I hope it will be obsolete. Each year I DREAM it will […]
Score!!
January 19, 2013 by Deah Schwartz
Filed under Body Image
Happy 20th Anniversary! Twenty Years. TWENTY Years. Two Decades. A Score. An infamous date in the life of Sgt. Pepper and his band. The amount of time I lived before College Graduation. (Your math is fine, I graduated early). The amount of time my son has been alive. For those of us who are parents, […]
2013 Healthy Weight Week Body Image Awards
January 18, 2013 by Marsha Hudnall
Filed under Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Featured, Media Literacy, Prevention, Role Models, Self Esteem, Self-Acceptance, Weight Stigma
Next week is Healthy Weight Week and along with it come the annual Body Image Awards, given to those who are making a difference when it comes to how we think about beauty, weight and ourselves. This year’s winners are: Israel received the Redefining Beauty award for its new law (!) that requires models to […]
It’s Dr. Deah ja Vu All Over Again (4)
December 31, 2012 by Deah Schwartz
Filed under Activism, Activism, Body Image, Empowerment, Fat Acceptance, Fat Talk, Featured, Finding Your Voice, Self Esteem, Weight Stigma
Every January, for the past 4 years I have posted this video on my Facebook page. Each year I hope it will be obsolete. Each year I DREAM it will be the last time I blog about this and I will get flooded with emails, texts (and now tweets @dr_deah ) begging me to, “Drop […]
