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Megan Smith at 9:55am Thu, 7 Aug 2008 under
Entertainment & Books,
Feminism & Gender,
Mommy & Family,
Beauty,
"On Becoming Fearless",
Body Image,
body image,
beauty,
television,
tv,
Pop Culture,
Reality TV,
Carson Kressley,
Letter To My Body,
letter to my body,
Midlife,
makeover
Do you hate your body? Do you avoid looking in the mirror for fear of what you'll see? Well Kelly Park and Carson Kressley of Lifetime Television's "How To Look Good Naked" may be able to help. And without liposuction, facelifts, butt lifts or tummy tucks. As part of BlogHer's "Letter To My Body" campaign which tries to help women improve their body image, I'm going to have the pleasure of doing a podcast interview with Kelly Park who starred in the premiere of this season's "How To Look Good Naked."

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Melissa Ford at 8:37am Thu, 7 Aug 2008 under
Feminism & Gender,
Health & Wellness,
Life,
Mommy & Family,
Race, Ethnicity & Culture,
Religion & Spirituality,
Body Image,
Elders,
Single,
compassion,
Infertility,
mindfulness,
BlogHer Conference 2008,
GLBT,
Midlife,
bridges,
sensitive blogging
This is the problem with going to BlogHer--it's like exercise. It makes you all healthy and energized. You come home and your thoughts feel cleansed as if they've just done a round of cardio and finished off the workout with a glass of carrot juice.
Earlier this week, Vered, who writes MomGrind, wrote a post about blogging and anonymity that got me thinking and left me wondering. In her post, she illustrated that most of the people she reads use their real name and include their photo as part of their blog.

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Denise at 3:59pm Tue, 5 Aug 2008 under
Feminism & Gender,
Health & Wellness,
Life,
Media & Journalism,
Politics & News,
Race, Ethnicity & Culture,
BlogHers Act,
MATERNAL HEALTH ISSUES,
MATERNAL HEALTH EDUCATION,
Mexico City,
International AIDS Conference 2008
Have you heard about the "new" CDC surveillance system used for tracking new HIV infections? Did you notice that the infection rate is considerably higher than originally reported?
Our Bodies, Our Blog has an overview of the CDC's revised HIV infection estimates.
How Do You Get Your Fiber?
I've always had a real problem getting enough fiber in my diet, and (as you can imagine) that can be problematic...But, I won't bore you with the details of my regularity.
Over the years I've been told by many doctors that I should be taking fiber supplements. So, I've tried various supplements. However, no matter how perfected these powdered fiber drinks have become, they are still disgusting to me. In comparison, irregularity doesn't seem so bad.
Who is your family? Who is your community? And what would its keynote say?The final question is more recent, but I've asked myself the first two questions a lot since I started writing in this topic area about a year ago, mostly because I like to make sure I'm not completely screwing it up, writing about, oh, say, Muppets and marching bands when something a bit more, oh, familial, is called for.