BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

And just let me add: 1 in 10 women - of puberty age and beyond - suffering from disorders like PCOS. Just like me. And PCOS makes weight loss almost impossible. But that doesn't mean we PCOSers don't eat healthy! Anyone who spends any time with me knows I am not a candy or carboholic. I am not swimming in ice cream, bread and diet soda either. I eat a lot of vegetables - some of them I grow myself, buy my meat either Kosher or from my local CSA , and enjoy beans, grains and seeds as well as plenty of fresh fruit and flavored seltzer. PETA can go ***** themselves. Oh wait, they just did. PETA: Making women feel bad about themselves by Monica Jean Alaniz The following appeared on PETA’s blog “The PETA Files.” It refers to a new ad campaign put out by the non-profit organization: Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian. For most of us, summer is fading fast, but for residents of Jacksonville, Florida, bikini season lasts all year. What does the Sunshine State’s endless summer m...

DIABULIMIA - A NEW DANGEROUS PRACTICE Some skipping insulin to slim down -- Practice results in grave diabetic complications earlier in life, expert warns Like many teenage girls, Lee Ann Thill was obsessed with her appearance. A diabetic, she was already suffering from bulimia — forcing herself to throw up to lose weight. But it wasn’t enough, and she’d recently put on 20 pounds. Then one day at a camp for diabetic teens, she heard counselors chew out two girls for practicing “diabulimia” — not taking their insulin so they could lose weight, one of the consequences of uncontrolled diabetes. Don’t you realize you could die if you skip your insulin? the counselor scolded. Don’t you know you could fall into a coma or damage your kidneys or your eyes? But that’s not what registered with Thill, who has type 1, or juvenile diabetes. Instead, she focused on this: Skipping insulin equals weight loss. For the next 17 years, diabulimia was her compulsion. “I took just enough insulin to function...