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  • Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
  • Written by: Christy Harrison
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (235 ratings)

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Anti-Diet

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Publisher's Summary

Reclaim your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture with groundbreaking strategies from a registered dietitian, journalist, and host of the Food Psych podcast.

Sixty-eight percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90 percent of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66 percent of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it?

The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue, promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status, and demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others. It's sexist, racist, and classist, yet this way of thinking about food and bodies is so embedded in the fabric of our society that it can be hard to recognize. It masquerades as health, wellness, and fitness, and for some, it is all-consuming.

In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it's infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat "perfectly" actually helps to improve people's health - no matter their size. Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture, and helps listeners reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Christy Harrison, MPH, RD (P)2019 Little, Brown Spark

What the critics say

"Nutritionist Harrison, host of the podcast Food Psych, debuts with this impassioned and articulate plea for readers to reject 'diet culture' and reclaim their lives...Harrison's enlightening, heretical tract provides a new perspective on the dieting narrative which many take as gospel truth."—Publishers Weekly

"Anti-Diet is the 'diet' book you need to read headed into 2020. If you've been gearing up to embark on yet another diet, protocol, reset or reboot come Jan. 1, I have a different suggestion: Hit the pause button on that plan and read Christy Harrison's book. Harrison, a registered dietitian and journalist, thoroughly and elegantly lays out the strange origins of modern diet culture...then presents a path to truly holistic health that's based on self-care, not self-control."—Carrie Dennett, The Seattle Times

"Brilliant! Anti-Diet should be required reading for every health professional and in every health-related class. Harrison bridges the gap between intuitive eating and social justice issues in an engaging and compassionate way. She exposes toxic diet culture—its evolution, who profits by it, and how it hurts you. Written with a friendly touch of sass, Anti-Diet, is richly sourced with studies, stats, and expert interviews. I highly recommend this book to help you dismantle diet culture and to heal your own relationship with food, mind, and body."—Evelyn Tribole, coauthor of Intuitive Eating

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The best book about intuitive eating

This book has changed my life and my relationship with food forever. I'm in University studying nutrition and this book will shape my practice to help and not harm people like so many dietitians do unconsciously. This book is a must to understand the roots of diet culture and to recognize it in its different forms (hello, wellness diets!). Many thanks to Christy, your work is amazing and you help so many people to heal their relationship with foods.

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Good book, I just don’t really agree

While I know the author is coming from a place of medical knowledge and has helped a lot of people, I don’t really agree with some of her points, like that we should all stop exercising completely and throw away our scales. I don’t like diet culture, but I don’t think there’s wrong with living a lifestyle where mental and physical health are a priority

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Educational, motivational, and Quotable

I love Christy Harrison and everything she does to advocate for justice for people in all bodies.

There are so many awesome quotes from this book. I bought a print copy and will be revisiting it to highlight many of them!

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Must Read !

This book does a great job underlining the subtle ways diet culture is apart of our everyday life and why we can't escape it.
It really looks at the history, provides great insight and tools to start looking at our body and our health differently.
This should be in our history book and taught in school at a young age, great book! Must read for anyone who is fed up and wants to learn more and break free of diet culture.

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Love this book!

I love Christy's podcast and this book! They have been so helpful and inspiring for me on my journey to heal my disordered eating and reject all of the diet culture messages that we get bombarded with every day.

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Loved it!

A well-rounded look at the history of diet culture and how it shapes our lives. I highly recommend for anyone who wants to better understand diet culture and how we can begin to challenge it in our own lives.

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I'm out of diet jail forever!!

I have wanted to feel this free my whole life. I didn't think it could be possible but truly, I am out of diet jail.
Now I can focus on my self-care and on my dreams because I don't have to entertain food thoughts every second of the day.
I highly recommend this to everyone, no matter what level of craziness you have toward food. My hope is for the rest of our culture to get out of diet jail too and to start living our dreams no matter what we eat, what our size and no matter what our weight.
I'm so grateful.

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a must listen

informative and motivational. easy to listen to and read by the author.
I would recommend this book to any person stuck in diet culture or any person that struggles "to lose weight". it's an eye opener and can change your life leading you to better health, better happiness and relationships with yourself and those around you.

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Poor delivery but valuable content

First half of book very boring and the last half was more interesting about life

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Too Political

Seeped in political bias and misinformation. While apparently an expert on the subject matter the author basis her information on political rhetoric and pop culture. This book is not at all a true proponent on how intuitive eating actually works. Completely not helpful to anyone who is seeking a healthy approach to intuitive eating.

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