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By Gary Scheiner, MS, CDE Living with diabetes is filled with challenges.  One of those challenges involves paying very careful attention to food.  Is this the right portion size?  Does it have too many calories?  Too much fat?  The wrong kind of fat...

Now comments from an article by writer/journalist Kate Figes, the thrust of which is that girls and women face more challenges today (thanks to male-dominated society and consumerist media) than ever before. It's a typically stupid article and the comments...

Being in the grip of an Eating Disorder or disordered eating behavior is like being in a psychological prison. Caught in a cycle of repetitive and distorted thinking, habitual behavior patterns, shame, guilt, fear and isolation, the sufferer may sink...

With summer in full swing, it’s practically impossible not to stumble upon articles glorifying the unattainable “bikini body”, “thinspo” and “fitspo” images urging you to shed fat at any cost, and friends comparing...

As a teenage girl coming of age in the 1980s, Sara* was uncomfortable with her body. She didn’t like her dark hair, so she tried bleaching it blonde with lemon juice. She was a good athlete, but still heavier than most of her classmates. And there was...