Talk:Health at Every Size

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Thanks to whoever was anonymously editing this article today! :-) Chartreuse green 18:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem, hopefully that's made it not quite so stubby. I think I've got the hang of this Wikipedia username thing now. --PurpleRavel 13:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I've now gone and done some more edits. Some of the wording was more focused on obesity (rather than size in general) than it needed to be, and I've disentangled some of the research info and hopefully made it look more organized. Also in the research section I think there should be some references for the claim about medication/pharmaceuticals. PurpleRavel 14:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] reverting several edits

I just removed several edits by an anonymous editor. My objections to these edits were as follows:

  • they messed up the formatting for the references, and it was easier to just revert than to try to go through and fix the particular errors
  • the "95% of diets fail" statistic is not well-established and thus not appropriate for an encyclopedia
  • I, too, prefer the word "fat" to "obese". However, when the word is referring to a specific research article that investigated individuals categorized based on a BMI of 30 or above I think it is appropriate. In addition, this article, I hope, will eventually have a objective overview of HAES. Using the terminology of the fat acceptance movement, rather than more popular terminology, detracts from that goal. The research in this area uses the word "obese"; this article should too, imho. Chartreuse green 20:35, 15 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] adding links

I added the links to Laurie Edison & Debbie Notkin at their request. I would note that the studies discrediting "conventional wisdom" on weight continue to roll in, and someone more qualified than I should add something about how weak and arbitrary the BMI stuff is. Rfdutcher (talk) 05:33, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] redirection

I added the Hydroxyethyl starch on the acronym HAES, which formerly redirected to this article. I first made an HAES_(disambiguation) page but didn't manage to link it correctly. Fix it those who want. Jaere 00:40, 3 January 2008 (UTC)