Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Health

  • The problem with paleo

    Jason Wilson has a fascinating post up at The Guardian discussing some of the problems with the paleo “lifestyle” which is currently very en vogue: The assumptions underpinning paleo have…

  • QOTD: Linda Bacon on bariatric surgery

    Content note: surgery, complications, fat-hate Because completely coincidentally, a number of surgeons who perform bariatric surgery (“stomach stapling” to your unmedical layperson) are suddenly in the media clamouring for public…

  • QOTD: Diets don’t work

    From Anne G Mirer, MPH: Even with outcomes for which weight loss could be beneficial, the benefit will be temporary if and when the weight comes back. Quickly or slowly it will…

  • Telling quote of the day

    [Content note: rape, sexual assault, drug use] From Family First head Bob McCoskrie, on an article about a chemistry exam containing a question about Rohypnol: “There would be a red…

  • Watching our language on mental illness and disability

    [Content note: ableist language] It was probably inevitable that in a post on The Standard about the differences in commentary style between leftwing and rightwing blogs, someone would come along…