obesity

A Little Love.

Aright internet, even though I’ve been doing my very best to keep to myself these days, think nice thoughts, and not worry about what others are doing. This post was unavoidable – Jess Weiner’s Weight Struggle: “Loving My Body Almost Killed Me.”  In fact I barely want to link it here, because I am likening [...]

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Food As Medicine

by Marzipan on June 16, 2011 · 24 comments

Marzipan

A LOT of people ask my why I named this blog Medicinal Marzipan. It’s one of those “branding” things that you really need to have a good quick elevator pitch to describe, but to this point it’s something that I’ve fumbled with. I’ve said things like, well my nickname was Marzipan in college, and um [...]

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ReBELLYon!

[Now, please don't be offended by my unabashed use of the fat in the title - it is a word that I simply refuse to be afraid of anymore and intend to continue to use it here, but please know that this my understanding of this word is a body type that elicits negative reaction [...]

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This post could also be entitled A HUGE love letter to Jessica Bennett of Newsweek. I have been almost blissfully ignoring the HUGE abc family debut and internet backlash/support issue, mostly because I thought the show was boring and not worth mentioning, but it is now an inescapable topic. This week Jessica Bennett wrote an [...]

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