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How Kelloggs Manipulates Your Shame

By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight loss marketing, weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
January 20, 2013

You’re not defined by your weight! You’re so much more than a number! Imagine getting on that scale and seeing “Joy” and “Spirit” and “Drive” instead of your weight. Doesn’t that celebrate the wonderful person you are? I’ve just described a Kelloggs commercial. If you’ve seen it, would you find yourself thinking “Wow, isn’t this …

Weight & Fat: Contradictions in Correctness

By Dagny Kight in lifestyle change, weight loss myths, weight-related shame
January 7, 2013

I love the First Lady. I really do. But I read an interview in which she joins in doing something that I think creates an aspect of denial to the difficulty some of us endure in managing our weight. It’s a contradiction with roots in political correctness. In an interview in Women’s Health magazine, Michelle …

The Scourge that is “Biggest Loser”

By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight prejudice and bias
January 4, 2013

Why mince words? “Biggest Loser” is one of the most offensive television shows of all time. It perpetuates truly hateful paradigms in the guise of a sickening insistence that the show “is changing lives.” I could say that the most disgusting scenes are when the trainers are humiliating the contestants and they do that in so many …

bias, reality television, shame

Obesogenicity & Broken Things: Why America Won’t Solve the Obesity Problem

By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight loss marketing, weight loss myths, weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
December 5, 2012

I learned new words yesterday. Obesogenicity An “obesogenic environment” supports gaining weight by promoting indulgent overeating. It’s the opposite of a “leptogenic” environment which would promote leanness or weight loss. An environment’s obesogencity can be measured by the use of ANGELO, the ANalysis Grid for Environments Linked to Obesity. Whatever ANGELO’s rating system is, I think the entire United …

bias, shame, weight loss advertising

It’s Time to Forgive Yourself for Your Weight and Move Forward

By Dagny Kight in weight bias in the media, weight loss myths, weight prejudice and bias, weight-related shame
November 27, 2012

This time of year tends to stir up memories, reminding people of events and experiences in their past, particularly those that involve treatment by family members. This week I came upon three blog posts that were essentially laundry lists of pain. Bloggers wrote out in excruciating detail the torment they’ve endured at the hands of abusers, …

bias, shame

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The Scourge that is “Biggest Loser”

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