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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
- Unabridged Audiobook
- 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:)
4 people found this helpful
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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.
5 people found this helpful
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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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- 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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- nrgmama
- 2021-11-13
Inspiring and important
Important read for all wanting to improve their relationship with their body, and to also understand how the view of one's body can uphold the systems of oppression we want to dismantle.
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- Jennifer E. Hubbard
- 2021-10-19
Love the content; sounds like Siri's voice
Really appreciate the content and it is a powerful message. My only critique is that the narrator sounds very similar to Siri. There's not much inflection and can't help but feel like Siri is reading to me. Definitely makes the experience less enjoyable.
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- Randall Rugg
- 2021-07-15
Skeptic
I went in a skeptic reading this book based upon a recommendation from patient. After completing I feel there’s some very valued deposit information that is conveyed here. I enjoyed the book and probably will re-read it a second time to gain more information from the authors perspective. I would recommend.
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- K. J. Moore
- 2021-04-29
Powerful Information!
My hope is that one day, all of our health care providers, coaches, personal trainers, nutritionists, and concern trolls on every social media post about weight and health could hear, understand, and heed the knowledge in this book.
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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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- 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.