Weight Watchers, who are now rebranded as WW, Wellness that Works have launched a new app under this new branding for children as young as eight... as Young. As. Eight. It's marketed as a potential solution to the childhood obesity crisis in America. However, a lot, and by a lot I mean, basically everyone who…
Continue reading ➞ What’s Wrong With WW Kurbo’s Approach to Childhood Obesity?
What does it mean to respect our bodies? If you follow me on Instagram, then you may be painfully aware that I've developed infection action a week before Ride 100. In the end, I realised the right thing to do for my self and my body, was to defer until 2020 and this got me…
Continue reading ➞ What Respecting Your Body Might Look Like
If you are worried about your relationship with food, who do you turn to? Your mates? Your GP? Or maybe you might turn to many of the numerous blogs, instagram pages and podcasts out there #wellness? Turning to influencers to make sense, I mean afterall, they're flawless skin, pert tits, perky bum and six pack…
Continue reading ➞ Beat: The UK’s Charity Antidote to Wellness Wankery and Eating Disorders
At face value the body positivity movement may seem like the perfect antidote to unrealistic body goals, the continuous merry-go-round of dieting and the perpetuation of thin ideals from the fashion, media, fitness, retail, and industry that uses models and their bodies to promote products and ideologies. The incessant nature is that although these images,…
Continue reading ➞ Why Loving Your Reflection is Just Another Unrealistic Expectation
Social Media is bursting with #BodyPositivity #LoveYourself and #ICanSoYouCan to messages seemingly aimed at the average health conscious woman. At face value it seems like a pretty brilliant and groundbreaking trend that's taking over. People are going to fitness events more, we are health conscious now thanks to a decade of public health campaigning. Dig…
Continue reading ➞ Orthorexia is the New Anorexia, and It’s Not Cool
Have you ever thought is strange or inconvenient that you need to eat every single day, multiple times a day? Think about it for a moment. Every day we need to eat. What would life be like if we didn't need to eat every day, multiple times? More convenient? Time saving? Resource saving? Picture this.…
The 10 year challenge shines a light on how much we as individuals have changed but how much has the face of diet culture changed in the last 10 years? In 2009, the same year that I left home to go to fashion school in London, starving yourself skinny was still cool. The severity of…
Continue reading ➞ The Face of Diet Culture: The 10 Year Challenge
