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Body Respect
- What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand About Weight
- Narrated by: Celeste Oliva
- Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Medicine & Health Care Industry
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Publisher's Summary
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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- breanna
- 2019-04-21
looking at the mind set
I was actually surprised by this read. Once I got in a chapter or so, it actually started to make a lot more sense and I did start to agree with what I was hearing. We need to reflect on minds and individual bodies, and look to ourselves to assess our overall health. Bodys aren't simple machines:)
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- Terra's Mom
- 2019-09-24
Mixed
This book has many important messages, primarily in two categories: (1) exposing the flawed science about weight and food, and (2) presenting a political context in which the “weight” lies flourish. Unfortunately, I found the book to have a conflicting message - an individual, self-help approach. This “accept yourself” approach can be harmful, as it is likely to be ineffective, and thus reinforces a sense of failure.
I am a trauma therapist. Intellectual, cognitive approaches do not reach the somatic, non-verbal, psycho-bio-neurological-political-intersectional containers of trauma that perpetuate the automatic trauma filters and responses. Our society is traumatogenic in relation to eating, weight, appearance. Why? It feeds unconsciousness. It feeds a sense of individualized failure. This failure feeds the Oligarchic structures that keep us separated and stuck instead of finding collective consciousness and true empowerment. This book hints at second-order change, but does not fulfill its promise. Instead it reverts to a “first-order” game of checkers, in which the moves are limited and someone always loses. We need to get off the checkers board.
I would use information provided in this book - the science and the contextual, intersectional perspective - as a resource. However I could not, in good conscience, recommend this book to someone who is in severe pain and suffering about their weight and size.
Still, I applaud and greatly thank the authors for heading in this direction! A lot of hard work went into this book and it does provide a foundation and a stepping stone for further work.
Do not discard this book as a resource, however read it with a few grains of salt, so to speak.
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- Nathalie
- 2019-02-19
An Important lesson to all health professionals
As someone who works in healthcare and hears the word “overweight” and “obesity” be tossed around a lot it’s very rare to hear a complete dissection of what these terms mean and how this impacts what we already know from lived experience from people living in larger bodies going on diets and not reaching the goal that they’ve been taught to strive for- long-term weight loss. I love how it gives the science/medical explanation of how this Weight normative paradigm is problematic and can do harm but then also expanded to a larger discussion on social justice respect and compassion.
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- Anonymous User
- 2019-05-15
Excellent Book
Outstanding analysis on the intersection between diet culture and matters of social justice. Worth the quick listen!
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- Caroline
- 2021-01-23
No thank you.
I just cannot believe that being overweight, even obese, does not harm one's health. Loving your body and respecting your body should mean taking care of it. The book basically says you're not in control of your weight; your body is. So don't fight it. *eyeroll* I don't think they're taking into account the person's mental and emotional health as it relates to eating and being active. As my mental health improves, I am able to eat healthier, be more active, and lose fat. Which, in turn, makes me feel better in every way. Nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health and look a certain way for YOU.
Just my two cents.
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- H.C. Edelhaugh
- 2020-11-15
This Should Be Required Reading in Health Classes
Reading this was like consuming chicken soup for the diet-worn soul. Great deep dive into health science and diet studies, easy to digest (no pun intended), and gave me several ah-ha moments. Allowed me to understand myself and the dominant culture of thinness and diets better. A really good read, but also incredibly helpful on my journey to body neutrality. I would recommend it to everyone and think this should be required reading for all youth in school health classes.
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- Amber Rose
- 2020-10-29
Game changer
This book is excellent and has changed everything I thought I knew (the things that we’ve been taught by culture) about health, wellness, and weight. I am deeply thankful to Dr. Bacon for her work and to Dr. Aphramor. A must read!
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- Jayden Gutierrez
- 2020-10-07
Ok but not the greatest
struggled to finish to be honest but it wasn't a horrible read. It just felt like a lecture in some parts and I wanted to get to the rest. I didn't learn as much as I thought I would but maybe that's because this was meant for those who don't know even the bare facts? I'm not sure.
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- Kim McM
- 2020-09-18
Enlightening
I am so relieved to hear this information. Allowing your body to set your fullness and listening to the cues it gives greatly reduces my stress.
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- joni
- 2020-01-03
Eye Opening and Profound
I can't stop talking about this book to my friends and coworkers. The authors cite numerous studies of which I followed up on several. The cases I looked in to were, from what I can tell, well documented, peer reviewed and did not seem skewed towards or away from an outcome.
The authors lay out a compelling case for the H.A.E.S movement and every fat person should be armed with at least some of this information before going to a doctor.
HIGHLY RECOMMEND
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- Elizabeth Rose
- 2019-08-08
Read This
Quite simply the best and holistic book I have ever read in regards to wellness EVER!