The world's waistlines are expanding, but it's an epidemic of a larger issue in terms of our bounty having become our burden.

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

Evidence tells that black and Latina woman are more accepting of curves, and that's a good thing.

Because I live in California now, I find my musings really being centered in this world.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.