Growing Up Indian in a Diet Culture World
Priya Payda talks about her upbringing in one of few Indian families in a small Canadian town, surrounded by diet culture. She discusses how cultural and familial influences contributed to the...
View ArticleFirst, Do No Harm: The Importance of Removing Weight Stigma from the...
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...
View ArticleEating Disorders Are An Active Trauma, Not A Maladaptive Coping Strategy
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...
View ArticleMeet Your Leadership Team Series: Education Committee Chair
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....
View ArticleMeet Your Leadership Team Series: Interim Projects & Operations Leader
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...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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...
View ArticleA Letter to Our Health at Every Size® Community on the Proposed Academy of...
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...
View ArticleHolding Lindo Bacon Accountable for Repeated Harm in the Fat Liberation &...
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...
View ArticleWhere do we go from here?
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...
View ArticleASDAH 2022 Conference: Wrap Up and Reflections with Angel Austin
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...
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