Last week I received the following comment on one of my blogs:I am reading all of this in great fear. My beautiful 8 year old daughter is beginning to see herself as "fat", she only wants to sit and eat.

Many eating disorder (ED) web sites and ED blogs contain discussions and tips on how to survive the holidays. I was recently asked to write a brief "tip" for local high school PE Teachers to send home with their students. I share it with you...

I was at a community health committee meeting today where a couple of new people were in attendance. One was an athletic trainer and the other a physician. It became apparent pretty quickly that neither of them were familiar with the concept of "Health...

Over the past few weeks our work for Andrea's Voice has taken us to Pennsylvania and me to Utah. In that time we presented to nearly 1,000 students, professionals, parents and treatment providers. At each of our destinations we spoke of the "fear" that...

Yesterday we celebrated what would have been Andrea's 30th birthday. It so very surreal to think that she has been gone for 10 years and would be beginning her third decade. For us she is forever 19. I started the day with an early, early...

By now I would imagine that you are all aware that this is Tri-Delta's "Fat-Talk Free" week. When I mentioned this at one of our local high schools a few weeks ago the "Why?" question arose. Why attempt to end fat talk (i.e.: Do I look fat in this? She...