Joni Edelman

"Food isn't the enemy –– calling it the enemy is the enemy."

4. A high school government class.

Here’s something that isn’t rocket science either, Stephen Hawking: Diets don’t work.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

Attention Civilians: Colonel David Iverson does not want to see your boobs.

My husband and I recently traveled together without our kids for the first time . . . in a while. And it was a brand-new ball game.

As long as I can remember having paid attention to the media, I can remember a woman's weight—or body in general—being a news story.

When I was little, any time I got an insect bite or stubbed my toe, I had to ask my mom, “Am I going to die? If I was going to die from this, I’d already be dead — right?” I also had a 30-minute prayer that I needed to say at each meal or else everyone would be poisoned and die. And corners. I had to check all of them before I went to bed.

I was told that feminism is man hate. That abortion is murder. And then I thought, "What am I doing here?"