• Very exciting news, you guys! As of today, Shapely Prose will be home to two new regular contributors: Fillyjonk and Sweet Machine! If [...]

  Expanding the Shapely Family

  August 23, 2007
• I finally picked up Barry Glassner’s The Gospel of Food last night, and I started reading before bed, expecting to get about 10 pages in [...]

  The Gospel According to Barry, Part 1

  August 22, 2007
•   (Larger version here.) Gallant writes about a new study suggesting there may be a viral cause of fat in some people. Gallant reports on [...]

  Goofus and Gallant of the Day

  August 21, 2007
• Reader Charlie sent me a link to this article in the September 2007 Scientific American, in which professors from the Harvard School of Public [...]

  Reading Is Good for You

  August 20, 2007

• In the Sporty Kate thread, JMars asks… I’m in need of a pair of waterPROOF pants for a trip next winter. There’s a pair of windpants on [...]

  Help a Reader Time

  August 17, 2007
• 1. Italian Town to Pay Residents to Lose Weight. Men get 50 euros for losing 9 lbs., women for losing 7. You get another 200 euros for keeping it [...]

  Minimal Comment Friday

  August 17, 2007
• “Scarlett Johansson is FAT.” “She has a huge butt, a gut, a stupid tattoo, and she still wears a juvenile nose ring. If her [...]

  The Kind of Thing That Makes Me Want to Give up and Hide Under the Bed

  August 16, 2007
• All right, I’m having another one of those days where I have zero interest in reading articles about The! Obesity! Crisis! and getting all [...]

  Sporty Kate

  August 16, 2007

• I have just learned, from Jezebel via Zuzu, that Afros and dreadlocks are “inappropriate” in the workplace, according to an unnamed [...]

  Remotely Natural Hair: Definitely a “Don’t!”

  August 15, 2007
• So, this post began as a comment at Feministe in response to a post in which Sara argues that we shouldn’t resist scientific findings that [...]

  It’s Scientific!

  August 14, 2007