The story has been scheduled to air this coming Sunday, November 8 during the 9 p.m. newscast. It should also be run the next morning during the Tennessee Mornings show (5 a.m. to 9 a.m.).

Watch it and let us know what you think!

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin) & "Hottie" (Jana Stanfield).

Food for Thought:Peggy & Pat chat about the changes at WRFN (now broadcasting at 107.1 lpfm) and the benefits of engaging in enjoyable physical activity. They also critique a recent news report in which physicians promote bariatric surgery as a treatment for Type 2 diabetes, diseasemongering, and the promotion of pharmaceuticals and surgery for cosmetic reasons or convenience. Below is a video clip of the Saturday Night Live commercial parody Peggy mentions during the show.

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Happy Being Fat" (Big Dee Irwin) & "Fit, Fat & Fine" (Candye Kane).

Food for Thought: Today's show featured the recording of a July 8, 2009 teleconference call Peggy had with authors Lynne Murray, Charlie Lovett, Frannie Zellman, Ellen Frankel, Rebecca Fox & William Sherman about creating and publishing fat friendly fiction.

Murray is the author of the Josephine Fuller mystery series. Her new novel, Bride of the Living Dead, will be published by Pearlsong Press. Lovett is the author of the suspense novel The Program. Zellman is the author of the fantasy novel FatLand and editor and co-author of Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society. Frankel is the author of Beyond Measure: A Memoir About Short Stature & Inner Growth and co-author of The Diet Survivor's Handbook and Beyond A Shadow of A Diet. Fox & Sherman are co-authors of the romantic novel Measure By Measure.

The call was one of a series of Pearlsong Conversations Peggy has monthly with various Pearlsong Press authors while wearing my publisher's hat. (See the Pearlsong website for details and links to recordings of previous Conversations.) We continued the discussion of fat friendly fiction in the August 12, 2009 teleconference call.

Email pearlsongconversations @ pearlsong.com if you want to participate in the November 2009 (or any other) call. The teleconference calls are free except for any long distance toll that might apply. November's featured Conversation is with Rebecca Brock, author of the new rubenesque romance novel The Giving Season.

Audio: Listen to and/or download the mp3 recording of today's show here. (Right click on the link and "save as" to download.)

Radio Free Nashville has moved up the radio dial to 107.1 fm. Still low-power fm, but now without competition for the signal. That, and some antenna changes, should increase the broadcast range of the station.

Radio Free Nashville -- and the Health At Every Size show -- can still be heard live over the internet around the globe, as well as over any phone via Upsnap.com and through the iPhone via the Public Radio Tuner App. Davidson County cable tv subscribers can also hear Radio Free Nashville via their television sets' Secondary Audo Programming on channel 10. See www.radiofreenashville.org for details.

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Women's Bodies" (Rebecca Riots), "Beautiful" (Spirit Foundry) & "Unconditional Love" (Tom Benjamin).

Food for Thought: This Wednesday -- October 21, 2009 -- is Love Your Body Day. Pat & Peggy talked about NOW's sponsorship of Love Your Body Day, the 2009 LYBD poster, and the benefits and how-tos of loving your body.

Audio: Listen to and/or download the mp3 recording of today's show here. (Right click on the link and "save as" to download.)

Love Your Body: 2009 Poster Contest Winners

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Great clip from fat studies scholar Amy Farrell's appearance on last night's The Colbert Report. Colbert ended the segment before Farrell could address the stereotyping that all fat people eat excessively, but it was still fun to watch.

I'm looking forward to reading Farrell's upcoming book Fat Shame and her contribution in the new Fat Studies Reader . Both books are being published by NYU Press.

Cosy Sheridan

Food for Thought: Pat Ballard talked about her experience at last weekend's Southern Festival of Books, where she was asked to sign a copy of her book 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are) "in memory of" a young woman who had died of an eating disorder.

Pat and Peggy Elam also discussed recent news reports that new FTC guidelines will require diet advertising to disclose the results consumers can typically expect, rather than showcasing unusual results and adding the disclaimer "results not typical." German women's magazine Brigitte has decided to ban professional models from its pages in lieu of featuring "a mix of prominent women and regular readers in photo spreads for everying from beauty to fashion to fitness." A study of New York City's law on posting calories in restaurant chains (enacted as part of the "war on obesity") found that the postings haven't changed customers' food-buying habits. Arthritis Today reported that a study published in the October issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism "suggests that obesity, by itself, does not inevitably lead to the development of osteoarthritis" -- which, of course, Health At Every Size advocates have been saying for years.

They also responded to last week's reported NASA bombing of the moon by playing the Suchi Waters Benjamin song "Grandmother Moon" at the end of the show -- although only a few seconds' worth of the song made it onto the archived recording.

Audio: Listen to and/or download the mp3 recording of today's show here. (Right click on the link and "save as" to download.)

Click here to listen to and/or download the hour-long mp3 recording of the September 9, 2009 Conversation.

Bagshaw's short story collection At Long Last, Love was published by Dr. Elam's Pearlsong Press in 2007. Bagshaw has also written several novels and contributed to three anthologies. Her free e-serial, Desperate Hearts, can be read online at http://www.desperatehearts.homestead.com/.

Fellow authors Lynne Murray (author of the Josephine Fuller mystery series) and Pat Ballard (Queen of Rubenesque Romances and author of 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are) and the new free PDF ebook Something to Think About) also participated in the teleconference call.

The Pearlsong Conversations began in January 2009 and are being held on the second Wednesday of every month at noon Eastern/11 a.m. Central.

The October 14, 2009 Conversation will feature Frannie Zellman and Lesleigh J. Owens talking about their writing workshops and performances at the recent NAAFA (National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance) convention. Zellman and Owens are co-authors (with Kathy Barron, Anne S. Kaplan & Corinna Makris) of Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, which Zellman edited. Zellman is also author of the novel FatLand.

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style" (Kristie Agee), "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" (Mika) & "Built for Luxury" (Abby Burke featuring the Manly Band).

Food for Thought: Peggy and Pat talk about Health At Every Size and fat in the news while a WZTV Fox 17 news team films the show (and interviews Peggy before, during music breaks, and after). Anchor/reporter Nick Paranjape says the segment should air in November.

We also announced the release of Pat's newest nonfiction book, Something to Think About: Reflections on Life, Family, Body Image & Other Weighty Matters by the Queen of Rubenesque Romances, as a FREE PDF ebook. Download the ebook by clicking on the title in this post or by going to http://www.pearlsong.com/somethingtothinkabout.htm.

Audio: Listen to and/or download the mp3 recording of today's show here. (Right click on the link and "save as" to download.)

Video: Click here for a Youtube music video of Suchi's body-mind-spirit liberation anthem "Freedom," and here for the music video of Mika's "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)."