About the UK Government’s ‘anti-obesity’ campaign… and it’s implications

Trigger warning: calorie talk. SO the government has launched a campaign to ‘fight obesity’. I have some concerns to this phrasing to start off with, suggesting that they are waging a war on people who are overweight and telling them that they are in the wrong. There are a lot of people who, at this […]

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My anorexia turned into orthorexia (trigger warning: eating disorders)

When I first lost weight due to Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and my stomach problems, I was strangely ‘proud’ of it, due to our strange society priorities where weight loss is apparently a constant goal. After years of a downwards and extremely dangerous spiral that almost cost me my life, I was forced into recovery. I […]

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