Growing Up Indian in a Diet Culture World - ASDAH
Priya Payda talks about growing up in an Indian family surrounded by diet culture and the influences that contributed to the development of her eating disorder.| ASDAH
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by Angel Austin, founder of Sacred Space for Fat Bodies The 2022 ASDAH Conference, with the theme, “Intersectional Liberation: What is Required of the Health at Every Size® Framework?”, is in the books! Held on Saturday, June 11, it was the most highly attended conference in ASDAH history. It’s been a year of growth and… Read More »ASDAH 2022 Conference: Wrap Up and Reflections with Angel Austin The post ASDAH 2022 Conference: Wrap Up and Reflections with Angel Austin appeared firs...| ASDAH
To Our Valued Fat Liberation & HAES® Communities: In our last communication to you, we stated, “Though confronting the patterns of harm in our community is difficult, we grow and strengthen because of it. We have great hope for the future of HAES® and ASDAH and that is because of our incredible community.” As anticipated… Read More »Where do we go from here? The post Where do we go from here? appeared first on ASDAH.| ASDAH
To our valued Fat Liberation & HAES® Communities: Six months ago, Dr. Lindo Bacon reached out to the ASDAH Leadership Team about their intent to write a revised Health at Every Size® Book. What transpired has caused a great deal of harm and a heavy burden of emotional labor for our team. While we have… Read More »Holding Lindo Bacon Accountable for Repeated Harm in the Fat Liberation & HAES® Communities The post Holding Lindo Bacon Accountable for Repeated Harm in the Fat Liberation & ...| ASDAH
To our valued Health at Every Size® community: Recently, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) completed a review of Health at Every Size® interventions as part of their Adult Weight Management Guideline that included many fatphobic and weight biased recommendations. One of the proposed recommendations is: 4.6 For adults with overweight or obesity, it… Read More »A Letter to Our Health at Every Size® Community on the Proposed Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ HAES® Recommen...| ASDAH
To the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Adult Weight Management Evidence Analysis Library team: We are writing to you as the leaders of the Association of Size Diversity and Health, the organization that holds the Health at Every Size® and HAES® trademarks. After reviewing the recent proposed recommendation 4.6 of the Adult Weight Management Guideline… Read More »An Open Letter to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics The post An Open Letter to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics ...| ASDAH
By Brie Scrivner, PhD, Former Board Member-at-Large and ASDAH Education Blog Coordinator (2020-21) Welcome to the third of this series where I sit down (have a Zoom call) with members of the ASDAH Leadership Team. We are moving forward and excited about the year ahead. When I joined leadership as Board Member-at-Large, summer 2020, I was… Read More »Meet Your Leadership Team Series: Interim Projects & Operations Leader The post Meet Your Leadership Team Series: Interim Projects & Operati...| ASDAH
By Brie Scrivner, MA, Board Member-at-Large, and ASDAH Education Blog Coordinator Welcome to the first in a new series where I sit down (have a Zoom call) with members of the ASDAH Leadership Team. It’s been a big year for change and everyone has been hard at work on the strategic plan for ASDAH moving… Read More »Meet Your Leadership Team Series: Education Committee Chair The post Meet Your Leadership Team Series: Education Committee Chair appeared first on ASDAH.| ASDAH
by Danielle B. Grossman, LMFT ‘Binge eating is about using food to numb emotions and stuff feelings.’ ‘Anorexia is about control.’ ‘Disordered eating and eating disorders are about acting out self-hate with food.’ The narrative that eating disorders are rooted in psychological issues and that people act out with food and ‘use’ eating disordered behaviors… Read More »Eating Disorders Are An Active Trauma, Not A Maladaptive Coping Strategy The post Eating Disorders A...| ASDAH
Oona Hanson discusses the challenges of addressing weight stigma in the pediatrician’s office. Doctors care about their patients and want the best for them. Pediatricians in particular are deeply invested; the care kids receive now can affect their health for decades after graduating to other providers. The “obesity epidemic” drumbeat, however—codified by American Academy of… Read More »First, Do No Harm: The Importance of Removing Weight Stigma from the Pediatrician’s Office Th...| ASDAH
Priya Payda talks about growing up in an Indian family surrounded by diet culture and the influences that contributed to the development of her eating disorder.| ASDAH
