Pinned in September – Pearl ●f Civilization

How to Write a Thank You Note (The Morning News) This is a gem from the old internet by Leslie Harpold, and is the only advice you will ever need on this subject. It is a perfect, actionable formula for sincerely expressing gratitude with grace. Given that only my friends read this blog (and only a few of them), if you are reading this you are probably about to receive a thank you note in the mail and you can check how well I executed this technique 😉
Here’s How A Registered Dietitian Meal Preps For Her Whole Family For a Week (Self Magazine) OK what? I followed a link from the host of a Health At Every Size podcast and ended up at… Self Magazine? It turns out this glossy magazine that I only know from grocery store checkout lines has multiple regular contributors who are anti-diet dietitians writing about intuitive eating and intersections of food with race, religion, gender, and poverty. This weekly meal prep advice starts from the extremely feminist premise that you probably have better things to do than cook all day, and from the extremely healthy premise that food should be delicious. See also, “I’m a Registered Dietitian and These Are the Only 3 Healthy Eating ‘Rules’ I Live By“.
Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong (Huffington Post) Speaking of anti-diet, evidence-based food politics, this was everywhere in my feeds in the last couple of weeks and it deserved it. The discussion of the challenges around collective organizing for fat liberation in particular has stuck in my thoughts.