Health At Every Size

July 13, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- The CDC & BMI

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:31:48 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Women's Bodies" (Rebecca Riots) & "Fat Girl" (Creamy Goodness).

Food for Thought: I discussed the Centers for Disease Control's discriminatory new weight-based workplace initiative & NPR Weekend Edition's "Top 10 Reasons Why the BMI is Bogus."

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

July 6, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- Independence & Freedom

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:09:34 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" & "When I Was A Child" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "I Want to Break Free" (Queen), "Even Free" (Kristi Martel), "Let My People Go-Go" (The Rainmakers), "Freedom Now" (Sweet Honey in the Rock), "A Change is Gonna Come" (Aretha Framklin), "The Bathing Suit Song" (Minna Bromberg), "Free At Last" (Jackie Day), "For Free" (Joni Mitchell) & "Suit Yourself" (Kate Campbell).

Food for Thought: In this Independence Day/freedom-themed show I encourage listeners to free themselves from restrictive thinking and programming about body, mind and spirit and catch a healing wave of change. Live large and love yourself -- at all levels.

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

June 29, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- Love Your Body, Move Your Body

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:10:10 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Start the Commotion" (The Wiseguys), "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" (Mika), "Big Fat Blonde" (The Rainmakers), "Fit, Fat & Fine" (Candye Kane), "Wide Clyde" (Blue Lunch), "Built for Luxury" (Abby Burke featuring the Manly Band), "Big Red Caboose" (Kristie Agee), "Fat Bottomed Girls" (Queen), "Big Boned Gal" (kd lang & The Reclines), "Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter" (Squirrel Nut Zippers), "I Like 'em Fat Like That" (Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five) & "Happy Being Fat" (Big Dee Irwin).

Food for Thought: Two poems by Mary Oliver ("Wild Geese" & "The Journey") bracket a music-heavy show that can be used as a soundtrack for a fat-positive body work (or play) out.

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

June 22, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- Soundtrack for a Mind-Body-Spirit Liberation Workout

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:23:12 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "The Voice" (Eimear Quinn), "Women's Bodies" (Rebecca Riots), "Even Free" (Kristi Martel), "Built for Luxury" (Abby Burke featuring the Manly Band), "Big Boned Gal" (kd lang & The Reclines), "Fit, Fat & Fine" (Whole Lotta Love), "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful" (Mika), "Fat Bottomed Girls" (Queen), "I Dance" (Spirit Foundry) & "Suit Yourself" (Kate Campbell).

Food for Thought: I thought it'd be fun to approach today's show as the potential soundtrack for a mind-body-spirit-liberation-oriented workout....remembering that the revolution has to start within. As Gandhi said, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." Live large & love yourself!

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

June 15, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- A conversation with Measure By Measure authors Rebecca Fox & William Sherman

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:13:15 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" by Suchi Waters Benjamin.

Food for Thought: Broadcast of the June 10, 2009 Pearlsong Conversation teleconference call with authors Rebecca Fox & William Sherman (and others) discussing the writing and publication of their new novel Measure By Measure and the importance of fat-positive fiction.

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

Fat Is A Feminist Issue author Susie Orbach to speak at D.C. area health conference August 1, 2009

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:32:04 PDT

The following is a press release from the Association for Size Diversity & Health:

British author Susie Orbach to speak at D.C. area health conference
Fat Is A Feminist Issue author will discuss & sign new book Bodies
Evening event also features "Discover Your Healthy Weight" DVD screening

REDWOOD CITY, CA -- On Saturday, August 1, 2009 the Association for Size Diversity and Health will host special guest speaker Susie Orbach as part of their annual international conference in Washington.

Orbach, most famous for her 1978 book Fat Is a Feminist Issue , will discuss and sign her newest book, Bodies, published earlier this year. The evening event is open to the public, with eating disorders and health professionals especially encouraged to attend.

Bodies brings into sharp relief the startling trend of seeing our bodies as a site of production, something to “work on” rather than something that “works for” us. In the past several decades a globalized media has overwhelmed us with images of an idealized, westernized body and conditioned us to see any exception to that ideal as a problem. Orbach reveals the true dimensions of the crisis, and points the way toward healing and acceptance.

Orbach is an author, analyst and activist, co-founder of The Women’s Therapy Center in London and New York, and co-convener of the website www.any-body.org.

Conversations with Susie Orbach will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, August 1, 2009 at the Dulles Airport Marriott Hotel, 45020 Aviation Drive, Dulles, VA 20166. Tickets are $35. Hors d’oeuvres will be served and books will be available for purchase and signing. Pre-registration is required by July 24.

Also included that evening will be the East coast premiere of The Body Positive DVD “Discover your Healthy Weight,” presented by filmmaker and The Body Positive co-founder Connie Sobczak.

The Association for Size Diversity and Health promotes Health At Every Size principles supporting education, research, and the provision of services that enhance health and well-being and are free from weight-based assumptions and weight discrimination.

For more information or to register visit www.sizediversityandhealth.org or call the toll-free number 877....

June 8, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- Pattie Thomas reads excerpts from Taking Up Space

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:30:32 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Women's Bodies" (Rebecca Riots), "Even Free" (Kristi Martel), "Big Fat Mamas Are Back in Style" (Kristie Agee) & "Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)" (Mika).

Food for Thought: I played 2005 recordings of medical sociologist Pattie Thomas, Ph.D. reading 2 essays from her book (with Carl Wilkerson, MBA) Taking Up Space: "Fat Beauty" & "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier."

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June 1, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show with Pat Ballard as guest

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:13:47 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "I Want to Break Free" (Queen) & "A-Hugging & A-Chalkin'" (Bob Scobey's Frisco Band).

Food for Thought: Pat Ballard, the Queen of Rubenesque Romances and author of the inspirational nonfiction book 10 Steps to Loving Your Body (No Matter What Size You Are), was my guest in the studio today. We talked about her work for the International Women's Writing Guild and the Nashville chapter of the Women's National Book Association, the books she's writing now, and, of course, Health At Every Size.

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

May 25, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- A Conversation with the Fat Poets Society

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:41:41 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" by Suchi Waters Benjamin.

Food for Thought: Today's show consisted of a recording of the May 13, 2009 Pearlsong Conversation teleconference call I had with the authors of Fat Poets Speak: Voices of the Fat Poets' Society, just published by Pearlsong Press. Kathy Barron, Anne S. Kaplan, Corinna Makris, Lesleigh J. Owen & Frannie Zellman talked about the need for fat poetry and the reception to their work, and read selections from their book.

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May 18, 2009 Health At Every Size radio show -- Fat & Happy Music!

peggyelam@pearlsong.com (Peggy Elam, Ph.D.) — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:55:22 PDT

Today's Fat & Happy Music: "Freedom" (Suchi Waters Benjamin), "Fat Bottomed Girls" (Queen), "Built for Luxury" (Abby Burke featuring the Manly Band), "You Need a Great Big Woman" (Candye Kane), "Wide Clyde" (Blue Lunch), "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" & "Built for Comfort" (Howlin' Wolf), "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" (Merle Travis), "Fat Cat Keeps Getting Fatter" (Squirrel Nut Zippers), "Meat on Their Bones" (Kristie Agee), "Mister Five By Five" (Ella Mae Morse), "Fat Boys" (Uncle Bonsai) & "Chubby Man Blues" (Les Kerr).

Food for Thought: We take better care of what we love than what we hate. Live large and love yourself!

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