Sandy Szwarc - what a amazing woman!

[James]

For those of you that arent aware of Sandy Szwarc, she is the author of the junkfoodscience medblog. The blog is a critical assesment of the mainstream reporting on science of food, health and medical issues related to size.

I usually check her blog every time a 'chicken-little' style obesity story drops to see what her take on it is. Invariably she brings much needed balance to the anti-fat sensationalism of the mainstream...

anyway, she took a break from her scientific analyses to write this beautiful little piece. I just thought that it was worth sharing here... since the message is so positive..!

an exerpt...

I’ve been following so many of your blogs and livejournals, and reading all of your letters, and wish I could just scoop you all up and tell each of you how wonderful you are.

And that you are beautiful — just as you are.

Each of us has a body that is uniquely different — some are meant to be big and other’s not so much — but we all have fat. That’s what makes us feminine. We’re meant to have round curves, softness and jiggle, supported by solid frames to carry babies and the weight of the world.

Our natural, womanly fat is not a disease and isn’t something we have to feel afraid of, ashamed of, horrified by or guilty about.....


.....I know this world has become an insane place and some days it must feel like you have no choice but to do whatever it takes to fit in. But please — before you are tempted to even step on that scale or do something more drastic like go on a diet (or ANOTHER one), purge, take laxatives or uppers, or go under the knife — stop. There is another way.

 

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[Sandy]

 

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