Body Positive Health and Fitness
Feb. 26th, 2003 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay, since it looks like most people who might be interested are reading this again...
I've recently created
bphaf or body positive health and fitness . I'm hoping this will be a group where people can discuss issues of health and fitness (in a pretty general sense) outside of the rather narrow definitions promoted by the media, fitness industry, government, or for that matter most doctors. I know a lot of you are interested in these issues in one way or another, and I invite y'all on board. Not to mention to invite other friends and suchlike.
In general, I'd like to aim for a fairly inclusive tone, and I'd really welcome everyone's input on what they see as relevant subject matter, and (eventually, if this takes off) an appropriate community charter. Though when I say "in general"... when I was looking around to see if such a community already existed, I stumbled across a number of pro-anorexia communities. (If you've missed this phenomenon, try searching on "ana" and/or "mia".) I was originally going to describe the groups in terms of a place for discussion, support, inspiration, etc. around and about pursuing your health and fitness goals as *you* define them, but the more I thought about it, the more I found myself thinking that that really seemed to cover the ana/mia bit, and yet that was not what I had in mind at all... I'm still mulling this one over. I think it's a non-trivial issue, though perhaps not likely to be a practical problem ;-)
I've recently created
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In general, I'd like to aim for a fairly inclusive tone, and I'd really welcome everyone's input on what they see as relevant subject matter, and (eventually, if this takes off) an appropriate community charter. Though when I say "in general"... when I was looking around to see if such a community already existed, I stumbled across a number of pro-anorexia communities. (If you've missed this phenomenon, try searching on "ana" and/or "mia".) I was originally going to describe the groups in terms of a place for discussion, support, inspiration, etc. around and about pursuing your health and fitness goals as *you* define them, but the more I thought about it, the more I found myself thinking that that really seemed to cover the ana/mia bit, and yet that was not what I had in mind at all... I'm still mulling this one over. I think it's a non-trivial issue, though perhaps not likely to be a practical problem ;-)