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One Valiant Teen Advocate Emerges From The Abercrombie & Fitch Drama

Greg Archer | Posted 05.23.2013 | Impact
Read More: Anorexia, Body Image, Bullying, Anorexia Nervosa, Mike Jeffries, Eating Disorders, Abercrombie & Fitch, Women and Body Image, Slidepollajax, Shut-Up-Skinny-Bitches, Darryl Roberts, Kirstie Alley, Greg-Archer, Abc, Good Morning America, Protest, Impact News
Greg Archer

The power of one person can affect the many. And if you're doubting it, just turn your attention to Cali Linstrom, the 17-year-old high school student who, this week, addressed Abercrombie & Fitch executives in person in the aftermath of last week's significant protest.

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Ambercrombie & Fitch Headquarters Protest Called Off

Darryl Roberts | Posted 05.17.2013 | Business
Read More: Discrimination, Darryl Roberts, Abercrombie & Fitch, National Eating Disorders Association, Bullying, Protest, Mike Jeffries, Business News
Darryl Roberts

This coming Monday May 20th, a HUGE protest was planned outside of the Abercrombie & Fitch headquarters in New Albany, Ohio.

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Roger Ebert Changed My Life

Darryl Roberts | Posted 04.05.2013 | Chicago
Read More: America the Beautiful, Darryl Roberts, Film, Siskel and Ebert, Roger Ebert, Movies, Roger Ebert Dead, Chicago News
Darryl Roberts

I want to share with you the article that Roger did on me in the Chicago Sun-Times that literally changed my course as a filmmaker.

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A Ride With Bradley Wiggins

Darryl Roberts | Posted 12.17.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Biking, England, Health, Tour De France, Fitness, Bradley Wiggins, Bicycle, Darryl Roberts, Healthy Living News
Darryl Roberts

Shortly after the Tour de France, I was invited to do a long bike ride with Bradley Wiggins in his hometown in England. It was called my Ride with Brad.

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Watch: 'The Thin Commandments' Know What They Are?

Posted 11.18.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: America the Beautiful Movie, Weight Loss, Darryl Roberts, Obesity, Bv-Life, Video, Black Voices News

At first glance, Darryl Roberts is an unlikely advocate for healthy living. By America's standards (and recent "fat" guidelines, as he calls them) Rob...

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Open Letter to First Lady Michelle Obama

Darryl Roberts | Posted 01.01.2012 | Parents
Read More: Healthy Eating, Bmi, Dieting, Michelle Obama, Health, Exercise, America the Beautiful, Weight Loss, Darryl Roberts, Eating Disorder, Childhood Obesity, Parents News
Darryl Roberts

If we could institutionalize your great message of exercise and eating a balanced meal, instead of dieting and focusing on losing weight, millions of people would be empowered to become healthy in a realistic way.

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Children's Book Author, Filmmaker Weigh In On Kids' Dieting Controversy

Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W. | Posted 12.14.2011 | Parents
Read More: Darryl Roberts, Maggie Goes on a Diet, Maggie Goes on a Diet Paul Kramer, Healthy Living Body, America the Beautiful 2, Body Image, Kids and Dieting, Paul Kramer, America the Beautiful 2 Darryl Roberts, Kids Dieting Controversy, Parents News
Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W.

The war on childhood obesity has been waging for some time now, but the battle over the best plan of attack is coming to a head this week. Why now?

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It's Only a Mistake If We Don't Learn

Shannon Cutts | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Darryl Roberts, Mistakes, Fixing Mistakes, Making Mistakes, Mistaken Concepts, Mistaken Beauty, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Shannon Cutts

Our teens are growing up in a world where they have already decided that they are ugly and nothing can sway them from that "reality".

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Ralph Lauren Boycott Ready to Blow Into the Windy City

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Eating Disorders, Fillipa Hamilton, Darryl Roberts, Anad, Ralph Lauren Boycott, Ralph Lauren, Airbrushing, Style News
Greg Archer

In the wake of their gross transformative photoshopping fiasco, indie filmmaker Darryl Roberts is calling for Ralph Lauren to explain and apologize to women everywhere.

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Skinny Reporting Misses the Point of Ralph Lauren Boycott

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Darryl Roberts, Ralph Lauren Boycott, Filippa Hamilton Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren, Airbrushing, Style News
Greg Archer

The images in Ralph Lauren's ads are linked to the promotion of eating disorders. They perpetuate the illusion that only when you achieve "thinness" will you be beautiful, adored and loved.

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Ralph Lauren Boycott: Retaking Beauty

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Healthy Eating, America the Beautiful Movie, Darryl Roberts, Advertising, Anorexia, Eating Disorders, America the Beautiful, Bulimia, Ralph Lauren, Anorexia Models, Anad, Health, Airbrushing, Style News
Greg Archer

While touring with "America The Beautiful," Darryl Roberts says he has met more than 100,000 young women, the vast majority of whom have eating disorders or think they are ugly.

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Miss Indiana Joins Ralph Lauren Boycott

Greg Archer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Eating Disorders, America the Beautiful Movie, Darryl Roberts, Miss Indiana, Anorexia, Ralph Lauren, Video, Style News
Greg Archer

Documentary filmmaker Darryl Roberts's boycott against Ralph Lauren is hardly showing any signs of malnutrition.

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MTV Decides Not to Release New Show Model Maker

Darryl Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Obsession, Women, Model, Mtv, Dieting, Health, Supermodel, America the Beautiful, Fashion, Beauty, Makeup, Diet, Darryl Roberts, Eating Disorders, Teenage Girls, Anorexia, Body Image, Self Esteem Teenage Girls, Cancelled Tv Program, Entertainment News
Darryl Roberts

The proposed MTV show, Model Maker aimed to take 15 young women and turn them into high fashion models by forcing them to lose weight. Sounds disturbing, doesn't it?

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MTV's New Reality Show, Model Makers , Puts Lives in Danger!

Darryl Roberts | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Bulemia, Anerexia, Model, America the Beautiful, Skinny Models, Fashion, Beauty, Diet, Darryl Roberts, Mtv, Mtv Model Makers, Healthy Living News
Darryl Roberts

While trying to cash in on America's impressionable youth, you are edging closer and closer to absolute moral and ethical bankruptcy.

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