Tri Delta’s Fat Talk Free Week

“You look great have you lost weight?”
“You think you’re fat? Look at me.”
“That’s way too tight for her figure.”

We are all guilty of thinking and saying stuff like this–to our family members, to our friends and even to ourselves. We are all guilty of self-criticism when we look in the mirror and notice that the skirt that fit us perfectly and hugged our hips in all the right places last season but doesn’t go past our thighs this season. We have all thought we were too fat, we have all dieted in hopes of becoming skinnier, more attractive, the “thin ideal.”

Women have more pressure than ever right now to look attractive, to dazzle with our appearance, to wear all the right fashions and to strive to look like the women who …

A Personal Perspective on the Debate and Importance of Health Care Reform

While I am normally all over politics and current events, I have been staying away from my usual news channels and publications because of the big debate that has taken over the news outlets as of late–health care reform. As you can tell from the opinion pieces that have appeared in our politics category, there is always an opinion to be had when it comes to legislation that has the power to change the lives of the people in this country.

I recently published an opinion piece of health care reform on my personal and feminist/political website, Menstrual Poetry that highlighted not only why health care reform is so important to the low-income people of this country, but also put my own personal perspective on the issue since I am currently in the middle of trying …

Give Your Body What it Needs: Take Your Vitamins

A few months ago my partner and I, realizing we were both spending pretty much all of our time indoors, in front of computers, decided to start taking control of our lifestyles. Neither of us were by any means healthy; we both work from home, we’re on a shoestring budget, and combined, those two lifestyle attributes very well translate into a growing sense of laziness with a thick coating of apathy. So we began watching what we were putting into our bodies and counting the calories of what we chose to nourish ourselves with and more importantly, beginning to distinguish the difference between throwing calories down our guts in order to survive and to actually nourish our bodies. In addition to changing our eating habits, we began taking walks and we laughed maniacally at my attempts to play basketball; basically, we just …

Calling All Health Experts: You Could Win $200 for Your Health, Fitness or Nutrition Article!

Health Fitness How To is a brand new article directory exclusively for health, fitness, and nutrition articles. To spread the word about their new site, they are running a great contest that could put an extra $200 in your pocket.

All you have to do is write an article related to health, fitness, or nutrition and submit it to Health Fitness How To. All article submissions will be judged on content quality, the average number of daily visitors your article attracts, an if you have linked back to Health Fitness How To on your own website or blog. Make sure to review the article submission terms before submitting your article to the contest, otherwise it may be rejected and that wouldn’t be good, especially since you’ve taken all that time to write a high-quality, expert article and all.

So, what …

China Bans Actors from Playing Medical Experts in Ads for Drugs

China has recently banned actors and any “non-accredited personnel” from appearing in advertisements for drugs. This recent ban is part of China’s broadcast watchdog, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television’s agenda to clean up the country’s famous advertising industry that has been an ongoing battle in recent years.

Fake drug and food quality scandals are plaguing the country and this specific ban went into effect after numerous scandals broke out over the past two months regarding the health of Chinese people in several provinces due to fake drugs marketed by non-professional medicinal personnel.

A Chinese internet user late last month exposed 12 fake “experts” selling medicine under various disguises and named on television stations in Shandong province which sparked an online uproar over false endorsements. Earlier this month Chinese police arrested at least five people in connection with a fake diabetic …

Get Some Flu-Fighting Foods in Your Diet

I have been sniffling and coughing off and on for a week now and it seems that no matter what medicine I take or how much time I spend “taking it easy” in bed or snuggled up on the couch with bad TV and great movies, the runny/stuffy nose and coughing comes right back a few days later. No matter where you live, for the past month, people everywhere have been suffering bouts of the flu in its many forms and January and February are the seasons that make up what we call the “flu season.”

Whether you’ve already been hit with the flu or not, it is important to get nutritious flu-fighting foods in your system. Whether you’re fighting the flu or warding against it, no one is safe from getting the flu, especially if you work in an office or retail environment …