The Fat Diaries: It's a Struggle Keeping Out Bad Influences

My kids are finally reaching that age where I’m not involved in every aspect of their life. A few years ago I decided what they ate for breakfast lunch and dinner. I came up with, or at least supervised every activity they pursued. I enforced good manners from the moment they woke up to the …

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Written by Monica Marier on Friday September 30, 2011

The Fat Diaries: The Cupcake Ban Hits the School Front

My kid’s back-to-school night was this week. I was in a bright room of forty adults sitting on little weenie chairs, looking like the little lost five-year olds we sent into the unknown two weeks ago. The teacher stood at the front of the class and talked to us. We went over the new-new-new …

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Written by Monica Marier on Friday September 16, 2011

The Fat Diaries: Taking a Stand Against Immobility

Believe it or not, occasionally I talk about exercise as well as diet in this column. I know it’s kind of the elephant in the room as far as American health goes, and it’d be nice to say that a good diet alone can solve any problem, but that’s simply not the case. I abhor exercise in all forms and …

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Written by Monica Marier on Friday September 9, 2011

The Fat Diaries: Does Junk Food Cause ADHD?

The FDA now blames food coloring. But it amounts to the same thing. Another year, another new food study on ADHD. This time the FDA is looking into food coloring as the link between children’s diet and ADHD. Did anyone else just sigh and say “here we go again, ” or was that just me? …

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Written by Monica Marier on Friday April 1, 2011