Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

Linda Bacon · Lucy Aphramor, PhD, RD

Sep 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Celeste Oliva

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Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies, and fatness is not a death sentence. You've heard it before: there's a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we're in trouble. That much is true-but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality-not the numbers on a scale. In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. Popular methods for weight loss don't get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can't match unattainable body standards. It's time for a cease-fire in the war against obesity. Dr. Linda Bacon and Dr. Lucy Aphramor's Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. They also help make sense of how poverty and oppression-such as racism, homophobia, and classism-affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism. Body insecurity is rampant, and it doesn't have to be. It's time to overcome our culture's shame and distress about weight, to get real about inequalities and health, and to show every body respect.

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Linda Bacon, PhD, is an internationally recognized authority on topics related to nutrition, weight, and health. A health professor and researcher, she holds graduate degrees in physiology, psychology, and exercise science, and her work has been published in top scientific journals.

Lucy Aphramor, PhD, RD, pioneered the use of a health at every size approach in the U.K. National Health Service, developing an eight-week HAES course that is now available internationally through licensed facilitators. She is the only U.K. dietitian with publishing and teaching expertise in critical weight science.

Celeste Oliva is an accomplished actor of both stage and screen. Her television and film credits include Olive Kitteridge, November Criminals, Gone Baby Gone, 21, and The Women. On stage, Celeste has received nominations and awards for her performances in Grounded, Chinglish, Stage Kiss, and Arcadia.

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