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Momfidence! cheers on commonsense parenting and sighs at the rest. How to worry less, wing it more. A.k.a. parenting by the seat of my mid-rise mom jeans.
About Paula SpencerI'm the author of Momfidence! An Oreo Never Killed Anybody and Other Secrets of Happier Parenting, and a mom of four in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (where you can't even buy Oreos at the two wholesome groceries nearest to my home). 
A rare foto in which all six Spencers face the camera! by Charles Harris
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A Love (Handle) By Any Other NameNovember 13, 2008
Okay. We know obesity is bad for you in all kinds of ways, upping your risk factor for everything from diabetes to dementia. We know overweight is not so hot either, although I'm siding with the evidence that says having a little meat on your bones is protective in certain ways. It's the positioning of the fat that's the new area of scrutiny. "Love handles" raise your death risk, say today's headlines. It's also described as "belly fat." Okay, but what about the part that pooches out no matter how reasonably fit you are, even when you're safely to the left of the BMI worry zones on those doctors' office charts? You know, the part that you rubbed during pregnancy that somehow never snapped back into position after delivery? Does baby flop count as (another description here of the same study) "abdominal fat"? Let's all cheer one another up today and say, "Nah!"
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