I was taken in by this TED talk: What You Didn’t Know About the Modeling Industry.  Unlike some of the overly scary (but true) stories about how horrible the industry is — it leads to anorexia, fuels major competition and expresses intense age-ism, this story is an honest, thoughtful and raw perspective by model Cameron [...]

According to a recent article in the New York Times, our brains respond to sweet things but not always in the same way.  A research study by the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation and the Yale Diabetes Research Center, explains that there are two types of [...]

I was flipping through the latest Victoria’s Secret catalogue beside my 11-year-old son.  While I was checking out an outfit, my son leaned over and pointed to the model on the opposite page.  ”Wow, she’s so skinny,” he exclaimed with a disgusted look on his face. While I don’t want my children to criticize anyone [...]