Calling all BBTeenz! We would like your help in creating new podcasts by BBTeenz for BBTeenz and teens of all sizes! We'd like you to talk about the issues that affect you and teens like you, recorded in an MP3 file and submitted via email to us here at PODWOM.

There are some standards, of course, and all podcasts will be reviewed before posting to the website:

1. Podcasts should be no longer than 15 minutes.


2. Keep it professional (No profanity, no sexual/pornographic content, etc.)


3. Focus on one topic per podcast, a "theme" of sorts, to tie it all together.


4. Rants are okay but keep it coherent and don't slander (instead of a specific person's name, say "Person X" and "Person Y" did this or that).


5. Podcasts of encouragement from your personal experiences are highly encouraged. Have some ideas that worked for you to make life easier as a BBTeen? Pass them along!

Send all podcasts (in MP3 format) to podwom@gmail.com

Thanks for your interest in BBTeenz and Size Acceptance!

Sincerely,
Allen Steadham



"It's dead on arrival at my desk."
- Mississippi House Public Health and Human Services Committee Chairman Steve Holland (D - Plantersville) concerning Mississippi House Bill 282

ISAA would like to thank all of you for your participation in this activism effort. The Mississippi lawmakers heard you loud and clear! Ding, dong, the bill is dead!

ISAA would also like to thank NAAFA and COFTA for their participation in bringing attention to this ill-advised bill.

AUSTIN, TX - The International Size Acceptance Association (ISAA) opposes and condemns Mississippi House Bill 282, proposed by Representative W. T. Mayhall, Jr. of District 40, which is "an act to prohibit certain food establishments from serving food to any person who is obese." In the unlikely possibility that this legislation actually passes, it would allow restaurants to refuse service to anyone with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 30 or more. The bill does not specify how restaurants should check for BMI but it does state that "the State Department of Health shall monitor the food establishments to which this section applies for compliance with the provisions of this section, and may revoke the permit of any food establishment that repeatedly violates the provisions of this section."

"This bill is wholesale legalized segregation based on weight," said ISAA Founder and Director Allen Steadham. "It tells restaurants to choke their own business while discriminating against potential patrons. It is obscene and shows to what extent the obsession over obesity has reached. This clearly steps over a line and should be called for what it is."

ISAA recommends that the public contact the Mississippi legislature and urge them to oppose this bill and Representative Mayhall to urge him to withdraw this bill.

Representative W.T. Mayhall
Home: 662.393.2069
Cell: 901.734.9540
Email: tmayhall@house.ms.gov

ISAA strongly suggests that the public exercise courtesy when contacting Representative Mayhall and the Mississippi legislature.

ISAA was created in 1997 with the mission to is to promote size acceptance and fight weight-based discrimination throughout the world by means of advocacy and visible, lawful actions. ISAA has a philosophy of self-respect, maintainable fitness and encourages healthy food choices.

Address questions or comments to ISAA Director Allen Steadham.

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A WOM Beta editorial by ISAA Director Allen Steadham concerning the new obsessity "research" published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A MUST-READ!

Skip about halfway to get to segment on "Globesity." It is a fascinating and engaging segment. Also featuring Varda Ben Hur, an Israeli actress and playwright living in Jerusalem and Hanan Hachem, a TV presenter from Lebanon who now lives in Beirut.