Stephanie Rodgers

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

Tag: diet myths

  • The enduring myths of fat and weight loss

    A great summary of our society’s myths about fatness, weight loss and health from Big Fat Science, just as we hit the peak “starting a diet for the New Year”…

  • The despair of “obesity battlers”

    A few tweets I made this morning after seeing this lamentation on Radio NZ’s website: https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/669985558492397568 This is an idea I’ve had rattling around in my head for a while…

  • QOTD: Beware that latest “diet breakthrough”

    A must-read article at io9: I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss. Here’s How. Other than those fibs, the study was 100 percent authentic. My colleagues and I…

  • The personal impact of fat-hatred

    I woke up yesterday looking forward to a relaxing fourth-day-of-a-long-weekend. And one of the first things I saw on Twitter was an article which panickedly declared that   And I…

  • 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…