This morning, I found myself in a discussion on Twitter with others interested in medical topics as a result of an “Analysis” commentary in the journal BMJ - “Breast screening: the facts—or maybe not.” In the piece, the authors critique a UK leaflet on breast screening, and...

It’s not just girls, boys want to keep up with the latest trends too. We can use lessons from the workplace to help teens with homework. A new study found a link between degrading lyrics and teen sex. Teen obesity is just as deadly as teen smoking. R-rated movies are prompting teens to smoke. ...

I just read a blind item that strongly suggested that Ben Stiller is losing his freakin’ mind. In the blind item posted on Lainey Gossip we learn that Hollywood power player and his very skinny wife share really scary eating habits. And more…. Not that it’s uncommon in Hollywood for ma...

Hi, I am a 20 year old college student with a binge eating disorder. As a type one diabetic I have had an odd relationship with food my entire life and have seen myself slipping into this since I was 16. Upon moving out to go to college things really picked up. I joined this forum a year ago and qui...

  We try not to dwell on the weight fluctuations of celebrities, since our greatest collective fear on this blog is-- shot in the dark-- that someone will point out our own problems with bacon cheeseburgers and failed diet plans. But when the entire internet is worried that Lindsay Lohan is sta...

I recently worked out Maiysha, the Grammy-nominated singer who has also battled a compulsive eating disorder. Through a combination of psychotherapy, diet and exercise, the curvaceous 5-foot-10-inch songstress dropped 60 pounds, slimming down to 160, which I detailed in Sunday's Smart sect...

From time to time, we see articles proclaiming that thin is totally in or curvy is making a comeback. Oftentimes, this proclamation occurs after fuller-sized models (by fuller, we mean a size 4) grace the runway at a fashion show or a curvaceous actress (like Christina Hendricks of “Mad Men...

this is part 2 of this month’s buddhist carnival. part 1 is here. the wild mind and the wise body i like this article by the wild moods that takes the actual here-and-now feelings and sensations of mental illness and uses them to get in touch with mental health … take a second to think about...

Some good stuff from recent days, in no particular order. If you follow my FriendFeed or StumbleUpon profiles, you may have seen some of these already, but several things will be new. And as usual, there’s a ton of good stuff over at Our Bodies Our Blog. Renee of Womanist Musings at Global Com...

More TV predicts unhealthy diet If you need another argument for why your teenagers shouldn’t spend so much time watching television, a University of Minnesota study of 2,000 kids found that those who watched the most television were more likely to follow an unhealthy diet five years later. Those ...