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"No Fat Talk" Week: Cutting Fat Talk from Our Verbal Diets

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

October 26, 2009 - 6:00am

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"Fat Talk" is a ritual with a special prominence between women, in groups or pairs, and makes it more difficult to have a rational, emotion-free relationship with diet and exercise. And that's why we need to get rid of it.

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Weighing in on the Surgeon General’s Weight

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

July 28, 2009 - 7:00am

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We are so focused on weight as an indicator of health that we ignore the fact that thinness is not equivalent to being physically fit nor is a higher-than-average weight necessarily an indicator of being "unhealthy."

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