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sophia_sol) wrote2023-01-20 02:07 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2023-01-20 02:07 pm
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time Money Wellbeing & Happiness Through Intuitive Eating - Christy Harrison
A solid, research-based book about all the ways that diet culture hurts people, how inescapable and insidious it can be, and how best to free yourself from the harm it causes.
This is a message that honestly SO many people need. Diet talk - and its current iteration, "wellness" talk - is everywhere, as is size discrimination and fatphobia. But a) sustainable long-term weight loss is almost impossible for almost everyone, because your body loves you and wants to keep you alive through famines, b) you can be healthy at any size, and c) weight cycling and experiencing weight stigma are the factors that are actually associated with greater health risks, independent of the actual size of your body.
There were a few place in the part where the book goes through the history of weight and dieting where I think it simplified things a bit much, but this book's overall goal isn't to be a history book, it's to show people how to have a non-guilty, non-shaming, comfortable relationship with food and eating and their body. And it does a great job at that. Highly recommended read.
This is a message that honestly SO many people need. Diet talk - and its current iteration, "wellness" talk - is everywhere, as is size discrimination and fatphobia. But a) sustainable long-term weight loss is almost impossible for almost everyone, because your body loves you and wants to keep you alive through famines, b) you can be healthy at any size, and c) weight cycling and experiencing weight stigma are the factors that are actually associated with greater health risks, independent of the actual size of your body.
There were a few place in the part where the book goes through the history of weight and dieting where I think it simplified things a bit much, but this book's overall goal isn't to be a history book, it's to show people how to have a non-guilty, non-shaming, comfortable relationship with food and eating and their body. And it does a great job at that. Highly recommended read.