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Women and Food

WATCH: Proof 'Pretty Little Liars' Has Food Issues

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 06.11.2013 | Women

"Pretty Little Liars," ABC Family's addictive teen soap opera/thriller has a problem -- a food problem. The hit show centers around the lives of f...

LOOK: These Models Just Can't Decide

The Huffington Post | Emma Gray | Posted 04.29.2013 | Women

An apple or a piece of cake? An apple or a donut? An apple or an ice cream sundae? You might not have to exercise that much thought to make a decision...

The Surprising Upside To Public Dieting

Christina Huffington | Posted 04.26.2013 | Women
Christina Huffington

Think of all the actresses who refuse to acknowledge that they don't actually eat burgers and ice cream sundaes. Wouldn't it be better for everyone if they admitted that it takes work to be that size?

How Comfort Eating Makes You Feel -- In The Long Run

Nina Bahadur | Posted 03.20.2013 | Women

We've all done it: come home from a difficult day and sought comfort in the form of our favorite junk food -- lots of it. But new research out of ...

10 Ways To Have A Better Relationship With Food

Posted 02.28.2013 | Women

Lexi Petronis | Glamour Lori Lieberman, RD, MPH, CDE, LDN, is a dietitian, so she knows food. But as the co-author of "Food to Eat: guided, hopeful...

LOOK: The Bravest Woman We've Met This Week

The Huffington Post | Nina Bahadur | Posted 02.12.2013 | Women

The idea that people might be staring at you in public and judging you on your weight is something most of us fear. For photographer Haley Morris-Cafi...

Happy Holidays? 17 Ways To Feel Better About Food And Weight This Season

The Huffington Post | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 12.18.2012 | Women

There is actually no rule condemning women to starve or binge, just lots of unhelpful suggestions that we should. Work toward being a woman who doesn't obey the insanity.

Emma Gray

13 Ways To Get Through Thanksgiving Dinner Unscathed

HuffingtonPost.com | Emma Gray | Posted 11.22.2012 | Women

Thanksgiving dinner can sometimes feel more like an obstacle course than a relaxing family meal. If you have family and friends who tend to ask loaded...

LOOK: A Visual Defense Of Frozen Yogurt

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.12.2012 | Women

"The older I get, the more often I find that frozen yogurt and or ice cream fixes most things," tweeted Whitney Myer on July 1st. Here at HuffPost Wom...

Yes, We Have Room For Dessert

Lori Fradkin | Posted 08.27.2012 | Women
Lori Fradkin

My family is very into food. We're not foodies in the sense that we obsess over local ingredients or seek out obscure delicacies. Rather, we just really like the experience of ordering it, consuming it, and telling others about it.

LOOK: 'Women Grilling' According To Stock Photos

The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2012 | Women

Here at HuffPost Women we love our stock photos -- so much in fact that we often email particularly awkward, confusing and downright hilarious ones ar...

I Love My Body -- In a World that Doesn’t

Jenni Schaefer | Posted 07.17.2012 | Women
Jenni Schaefer

Let's change our definition of 'pretty' to what really matters. Maybe a pretty person is one who is authentic, self-respecting, and kind to others.

5 Ways Stay Positive About Your Body

Posted 05.10.2012 | Women

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 05/10/2012 11:47 AM EDT on LiveScience Being thin and beautiful doesn't sound like cause...

How Julia Child Revolutionized The Way Women Saw Cooking

AP | By MICHELE KAYAL | Posted 05.08.2012 | Women

-- Massaging poultry, dropping food and utensils, and warbling her way through boeuf bourguignon and coq au vin, Julia Child left an indelible mark o...

Whining, Yet No Dining

Rachael Abrams | Posted 06.24.2012 | Women
Rachael Abrams

Just as no hospitable woman would let a guest come in her home without offering something more than a warm or cold libation, no woman of valor should forgo a meal or snack at lunch.

Compulsive Eating At Work: How To Stop Eating At Your Desk

Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 06.16.2012 | Women
Margaret Wheeler Johnson

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane, too. Be the one who doesn't do it and see what happens. Someone has to be the one who says, 'I'm not going to do it this way. I deserve more.'"

Ice Cream, Women and Desire

Fabio Parasecoli | Posted 05.28.2012 | Home
Fabio Parasecoli

Anybody can be on the joke. Well, anybody as long as he or she is familiar with American popular culture and one of its almost unshakable tenets: When women get sad or depressed, they cope with their emotions by binging on sweets.

Am I Really Fat?

Shannon Bradley-Colleary | Posted 03.30.2012 | Women
Shannon Bradley-Colleary

I've been nit-picking myself about those ten pounds for five years. I've been wanting to get back to my pre-child, pre-40s size. Well I'm done with it and this is why.

What I Gained By Ditching My Eating Disorder

Jenni Schaefer | Posted 03.27.2012 | Women
Jenni Schaefer

The body truly is a vehicle for life rather than something to be controlled. I've heard it said that our bodies are our Earth suits -- simply what we wear on this planet in order to get around. We must nourish this gift in a balanced way.

6 Reasons To Stop Dieting

Posted 01.09.2013 | Women

Lisa Eisenstadt | The Daily Muse It seems like there's a new fad diet or food "discovery" nearly every day that promises to help us lose weight and...

Why I Hunt: 'I Found Myself Thinking, This Can't Be All There Is'

Georgia Pellegrini | Posted 02.11.2012 | Women
Georgia Pellegrini

There are moments, with a cloud of duck feathers floating in the air around me, that even I wonder how I got here.

Margaret Wheeler Johnson

Don't Stay With Your Parents ... And 11 More Solutions To Holiday Eating Anxiety

HuffingtonPost.com | Margaret Wheeler Johnson | Posted 11.22.2011 | Women

Americans are arguably programmed to overeat on Thanksgiving, yet most people seem to emerge from the experience relatively unscathed. There's som...

Body-Positive Blogs: Helpful Or Hurtful?

Refinery29.com | Posted 08.30.2011 | Women
Refinery29.com

Eighteen-year-old Becky* dreams of being a model. She documents her progress toward achieving this goal on her Tumblr, where she routinely charts her ...