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How can you nourish something you hate? Collective Shout colleague and Managing Director of BodyMatters Australasia Lydia Turner has written an important piece for Healthy Weight Week highlighting...
View ArticleThe Biggest Loser: sadistic voyeurism in the name of health
Who is really benefitting from this show? I’ve watched a couple of episodes of The Biggest Loser Families and find myself cringing at the extent of degradation and...
View ArticleLooking behind the positive body image platitudes: Triumph’s latest marketing...
Shapewear line to help you be more like the “lucky” slim girls I was recently asked to comment on a ‘story’ about underwear brand Triumph announcing new body...
View ArticleMaggie is fat and its all her fault: new diet book for children puts them in...
Because children don’t already feel bad about themselves enough, there’s a new book just about to be released titled Maggie Goes On a Diet. I asked Collective Shout...
View Article“I felt I had to take action…the diet industry is killing girls”: Lydia...
Clinical director of BodyMatters Australasia and co-founder of Collective Shout, Lydia Turner has a piece on ABC The Drum today defending the position she took in leading a campaign...
View ArticleNothing tastes as bad as Lorna Jane co-opting pro anorexia slogan for ad...
Connecting beauty and self-denial: a dangerous approach to health and fitness Eating disorder experts are questioning an image on Lorna Jane’s Facebook of a young woman in exercise gear...
View ArticleInternational No Diet day: What you can do
Guest post by Body Matters Australasia. Exciting times await us, comrades! As many of you know, BodyMatters recently launched ‘Endangered Bodies Australia’ – the Australian branch of a...
View ArticleThe Biggest Loser – is it making us sicker? MTR in Sunday Herald Sun
Tacky show is not worth the weight REALITY weight-loss show The Biggest Loser claims to be all about health – leading a new “social movement” against the “obesity...
View ArticleHow Biggest Loser fat shaming hurts us: another eating disorder survivor...
Following my Sunday Herald Sun column critical of ‘The Biggest Loser’ last week , I heard from a number of women in recovery from eating disorders, who wrote...
View ArticleExcellent advice on helping a friend with an eating disorder and dealing with...
When I speak in schools, I’m often asked for advice on how to help a friend with an eating disorder (and not just girls – a male student...
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