Four for Wednesday: Nutrition, Memoirs, and Relationships

[med_cat]

As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice

General Mills warns of ‘food shaming’; dietitian influencers promote junk foods and discourage weight loss efforts, from The Washington Post

3 new memoirs tell stories of struggle and resilience

‘This American Ex-Wife,’ ‘Everywhere the Undrowned’ and ‘The Manicurist’s Daughter’ delve into the challenges of knowing oneself and one’s family, also from The Washington Post

It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal

I spent 12 years fighting for an equal partnership, when what I needed was a divorce, by Lyz Lenz, in Glamour (yes, she's the author of "This American Ex-Wife")

The All-American Father

When I became a father, I felt a torrent of love, pride, and terror. Now, looking back on the rules of manhood that shaped how my own father raised me, I wonder: did he love me the same way? (from Esquire)

Comments

[shirebound]

"Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice"... That's a very interesting -- and disturbing -- article.

However, it sounds like it would be fun to jump into a huge bowl of plushie Cheerios. :)

[med_cat]

Right? ;) The slide does look fun. And yes, traditional dieting doesn't work very well, etc.--but what these "dieticians" doing is not right either...anyway, the article explains it well.

[minoanmiss]

It may be because I've benefited from HAES but I found that article pretty slanted. [deleted 500 words of commentary] People like to talk about health when they talk about weight loss but they never seem to consider mental health. Anyway. Maybe I'll write about this article in my journal.

[med_cat]

HAES is good but it sounds to me like some of those supposed experts the article talks about are subverting it to further their own aims and stuff their own pockets...no?

And sure, I'd be interested to read what you write, if you decide to do that :)

[minoanmiss]

It's not that the terrible people and the ones who have bad reactions don't exist, it's the way they were foregrounded and their more positive counterparts were vagueified (it's 330 AM, I'll come up with the actual word for my essay. :D)

[med_cat]

I understand what you're saying, and I love the word you've come up with :)

[amaebi]

About the marital domestic labor: yes and yes and yes.