I'm not sure how many of you read the Marie Claire article: The Hunger Diaries: How Health Writers Can Be Putting You at Risk. I checked it out this a.m. after having read about it on a few blogs. I personally don’t read any of these six blogs regularly, but have heard of their blogs from other bloggers and remember stopping by occasionally over my last couple of years blogging. Regardless of how frequently I read, I feel so sorry for them all right now. I just can’t imagine how betrayed they must feel by the author. She definitely took, what I think, is a build-up-buddy blog community and tore it apart, pointed fingers and made these girls seem like they were telling people what size to be, what to eat, etc., when really, the impression I get is that they’re doing what we all do – just sharing. Sharing recipes, chatting about daytime work drama, recapping races, posting exercise moves, etc. Not trying to tell anyone how much to eat or run or anything. I don’t know, I was just really disappointed that she messed with these ladies. And the thing is, perhaps there is something to what she was trying to prove. Who knows? Certainly not us because her article got so caught up in naming names and citing out-of-context information to prove her point that it got lost. It was odd. Like she had some kind of personal agenda. I don't post pictures of everything I eat. I never have. Truth be told i'm just really bad at remembering! But I do post calories and use the site as a tool to track my calories and workouts, not as a tutorial for what anyone else should be doing.
Q: What do you think about the article? What do you think about the idea that food blogging is dangerous?
Edited to post: I just figured out what this reminds me of... the Sex and the City where Carrie thought she was in a 40 and fabulous article but they got her after staying up all night/smoking a cigarette: 40 and fabulous? Totally skewed article that came out of no where. So wrong!
I'll return to regular programming later - just thrown off by this article!
