KRISTEN McALEAVEY, 41, of Richmond, Va., is an associate professor in social work at Longwood University who also maintains a private practice in addiction. I met her recently at the third annual meeting of the Society of Food Addiction Professionals in Houston, and, impressed, asked her to join me for a 10-words-or-less interview. Please: No counting; it’s a goal, not a rule.

Here's the link to the story about me on "Chronicle" the other night. 

Please note: They tacked on a continuation of their reporter's dream to be a soap opera actress onto the end of the video, but I'm pretty sure the "Fat Boy Thin Man" content stops at about 3 minutes.

In one post earlier today, I invoked First Lady Michelle Obama, alluding to her "Let's Move" effort. I ended a second post with, "Anyone want to argue these points?"

I ask that again, regarding a point from Marion Nestle's post:

So I'm at my local library, where, some months ago, with the help of a reader/patron, I donated a copy of my book, "Fat Boy Thin Man." The only other time I checked, it wasn't in the library's catalog.

Today, I not only saw it there, but I saw that another library in the Minuteman Library Network also has a copy. Both are lent at the moment, and two other readers are waiting their turn to read.

As regular readers will know, I am a lefty, politically, from way back. It is with a rueful semi-admiration that I observe that it is almost always the other side that frames our debates, relying on pith and misdirection while I expect logic to prevail. When I do that, I am the pocket-protected nerd, all over again.

What I'm thinking of this morning are the phrases "food police" and "nanny state," which are emotionally laden semi-accurate terms intended to convey a sneer before anything else. No need to listen; who could possibly support people with names like that? 

Probably the better course would be just to ignore them, and I often do, but this post from the food/restaurant industry shills at myfoodmychoice.org is just too ripe for mockery. For these simps, that's saying something.

The headline says, "Kids Reject New Govt School Lunch Food Formulas," and the half-truthiness has begun:

I am not only aware of packaging's influence on sales, I am a a participant in the phenomenon. I like convenience, and I've made purchases where the container competed with the contents for primacy.

The Boston-area TV magazine show "Chronicle" will air a piece on "Fat Boy Thin Man" Tuesday, Feb. 22, at 7:30 p.m.

Please tune in, and please share the news with others you think might be interested, via social networking, the water cooler, or whatever else you have at your disposal.

If you're not in the Boston area, you can see the piece online beginning on the 23d, at the above link.

Paid spokespeople are typically cagey, couching their points of view in the most reasonable terms possible. Then there's Beth Mansfield, mouthpiece for company that operates Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, quoted in the Los Angeles Times:

My longest-standing readers know that I started out blogging on topics of sustainability, which I rather narrowly defined as issues around energy use. Gradually, I shifted to food issues because I wanted and needed to support my book, "Fat Boy Thin Man."

In the transition, I saw how sustainability, defined as the dictionary does, rather than cloaked in the meaning "we" have attached to it, applies in so many ways to food. Yes, my thinking was absurdly narrow.