Open thread: All things Thanksgiving
I think there exists some kind of cosmic law of nature wherein the weekend passes at an exponentially faster rate than do the weekdays.  I took a much-needed few days off this weekend from both the Internet and work and I’m still wondering where the time went.  I hope everyone survived Thanksgiving and indulged in [...]

The almost-Thanksgiving “What I am Thankful For” post
Happy almost-Thanksgiving to all my American readers.  This post is coming to you a day early because, like so many of my fellow countrymen, I’ll be taking tomorrow off to sleep in before gorging on some Tofurkey and pumpkin pie and then vegging out in a stupified food coma with my closest friends and family.  [...]

Black college to fat students: Take fat class or don’t graduate
An historically black college in Pennsylvania is preventing more than two dozen seniors from graduating not because of their academic standing or disciplinary measures, but for the simple fact that they are fat. Inside Higher Ed and the Associated Press reports that Lincoln University in Oxford, Penn. is threatening the group of 25 students with their [...]

How to survive Thanksgiving when you’re in eating disorder recovery
Thanksgiving is perhaps the holiday that inspires the most amount of anxiety and fear in the hearts of those (Americans) with eating disorders, especially those of us with bingeing disorders like bulimia or BED who know we can eat the feast twice over and then some. We've discussed tips and advice for the holidays here before, but I got a note from the Eating Recovery Center of Colorado this week with even more coping skills for sufferers and caregivers that I thought helpful to share...

Binge eating disorder subject of LA Times special series
In conversations and debates on eating disorders, binge eating disorder (BED) is often the odd disorder out, even though BED is estimated to affect about 10 percent of the U.S. population, eclipsing both anorexia (one percent) and bulimia (four percent). In fact, BED has yet to even be recognized as an official disorder unto itself; it's currently lumped into the ED-NOS category in the DSM-IV.* So, it's nice to see the Los Angeles Times do a four-part special feature on BED in today's paper, covering such basics as what it is, how it's defined, who suffers from it and its triggers and health risks.