Despite this correlational link, there is little direct evidence showing that obesity causes these conditions (Bombak, 2014). Support for Health at Every SizeĪ large body of evidence suggests a correlational link between obesity and numerous chronic health conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and arthritis (Kearns et al., 2014). This article explores the research supporting and refuting HAES and offers strategies to encourage healthy behavior change among clients who struggle with excess weight. Bacon presents data supporting the idea that behaviors, not weight, are most important in the development of poor health. The HAES movement is largely credited to Linda Bacon, Ph.D., who introduced the concept in her book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, which refutes the idea that overweight and obesity cause adverse health outcomes (Bacon, 2010). Recognition of social, emotional and spiritual factors in addition to physical factors related to health and happiness (Robison, 2005).Eating in response to internal body cues.Ineffectiveness and danger in dieting for weight loss.Acceptance of natural body diversity in weight and size. One such theory is called Health at Every Size (HAES), a weight-neutral approach built on the following principles: As national obesity rates have continued to rise, so too have various, often opposing, theories on the health implications of excess weight.
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Whitmore was also nominated for, and won, a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. It is only the third film to have its entire credited cast (Whitmore) nominated for an Academy Award, the first two being Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 1966 and Sleuth in 1972. Appearing at The Snug TheatreJune 3 - June By Samuel Gallu A Gem. James Whitmore was nominated for Best Actor by both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes. Give Em Hell, Harry is produced with the permission of the estate of Samuel Gallu. Although the play has been regularly revived, it did not make its New York debut until July 2008 at St. The play then went on to a six-city tour, during which it was videotaped for film on the stage of the Moore Theatre in Seattle, using a live editing process called Theatrovision. Its Appremiere was hosted by Truman's daughter Margaret and attended by President Gerald Ford. The play previewed in Hershey, Pennsylvania, followed by its official opening at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. I just tell the truth about them and they think it's Hell." Subsequently, "Give 'em Hell, Harry!" became a lifetime slogan for Truman supporters. During the speech a supporter yelled out "Give 'em Hell, Harry!". In Bremerton, Washington, Truman delivered a speech attacking the Republicans. Give ‘em Hell, Harry was conceived by playwright Samuel Gallu as a one-man production that highlighted episodes in Truman’s personal and political adventures. The title comes from an incident that took place during the 1948 Presidential election campaign. As he investigates his young patient's troubled past, Alex enters the shadowy worlds of fringe psychological experimentation and the sex industry, and then into mortal danger when lust and big money collide in Southern California. 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Perennial bestseller and acknowledged master of the psychological thriller, Jonathan Kellerman has created his most riveting and memorable work to date in the Alex Delaware novel about a troubled and elusive young woman whose brutal murder forces the brilliant psychologist-detective to confront his own fallibility. Book has some rubbing and scuffing to boards. After getting her International Baccalaureate Diploma, Alice is studying English Language and Literature at University. She was raised trilingual and has a basic understanding of Russian, read and spoken. Later on, she moved back to Europe, where her family moved around a lot. Something that won’t let them leave alive.Įchoes is a thrilling adventure about confronting the impossible, discovering love in the most unexpected places, and, above all, finding hope in the face of the unknown.Īlice Reeds was born in a small town in Germany but spent her first eight years in Florida, USA. And soon, the most chilling discovery: something else is on the island with them. No plan to follow, no hope to hold on to.Įach step forward reveals the mystery behind the forces that brought them here. Fiona and Miles, high school enemies now stranded together. ECHOES is a heart-pounding and addictive love story.” -Mia Siegert, author of Jerkbait Personal life Ĭondie was born in Cedar City, Utah. Condie is also on the board of Go Jane Give, a non-profit Utah-based organization that organizes donations to refugees. She is also a member of the Yallwest Board, which is a non-profit California-based organization aimed at making books accessible to local children. She is the founder and director of the WriteOut Foundation, a non-profit 501 (3) (c) foundation that runs writing camps for rural teens. Summerlost was a finalist for the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. 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Galgut deploys every trick in the book he's heart-swellingly attentive to emotional complexity. ‘The most important book of the last ten years’ Edmund White Confident, deft and quietly powerful, The Promise is literary fiction at its finest. In this story of a diminished family, sharp and tender emotional truths hit home. And as the country moves from old deep divisions to its new so-called fairer society, the lost promise of more than just one family hovers behind the novel’s title. The narrator’s eye shifts and blinks: moving fluidly between characters, flying into their dreams deliciously lethal in its observation. After years of service, Salome was promised her own house, her own land… yet somehow, as each decade passes, that promise remains unfulfilled. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest everything the family stand for - not least the failed promise to the Black woman who has worked for them her whole life. The Swarts are gathering for Ma’s funeral. The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. A masterpiece of a family in crisis from twice Booker-shortlisted author Damon Galgut I read everything I mean everything! All kinds of books, even encyclopedias. The ability to create pictures and emotions with words is such a miracle to me. I've been a writer all of my life - it is who I am. She also has earned 7 more PEARL awards since Dark Prince. Since then she has been published by various publishing houses including Leisure Books, Pocket Books, and currently is writing for Berkley/Jove. Her debut novel Dark Prince received 3 of the 9 Paranormal Excellence Awards in Romantic Literature (PEARL) in 1999. All of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestselling list as well. Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author multiple times over with her portfolio including over 90 published novels, including five series Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, the Sisters of the Heart Series, Shadow Riders and Torpedo Ink. This strain then possibly drifted across the Atlantic as America joined the war eventually surfacing in Camp Funston in Kansas. Mustard gas victims with compromised lungs certainly became extremely susceptible to the new strain possibly as early as 1916 but never identified as such at the time. An alternative theory is that gas victims in the base hospitals mutated avian flu within their lungs from the waterfowl living in the wetlands around Etaples. Spinney argues believably that either the virus originated in China, where waterfowl borne viruses have mutated in the years since as Bird Flu, and travelled with the CLC across the US to Europe, potentially drifting into Kansas on the way. Alongside were troops of the Chinese Labour Corps (CLC) recruited from rural China for labour support activities on the front. Notorious for a mutiny amongst British and Australian troops in 1917 Etaples and its infamous ’Bullring’ training grounds held thousands of troops going up to the frontline as well as a dozen hospitals with 23,000 beds for casualties returning from the Ypres salient. Discussing how it emerged in Kansas Spinney highlights the differing views but two key theories seem to coalesce around the British base depot at Etaples to the rear of the British Sector of the Western Front. |