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Health Controversy: Can You Be Fat and Healthy? Some experts now say yes.
Dieting Doesn't Work UCLA researchers find that people who lose weight usually gain it all back — plus some.
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Article from the HAES Blog: healthateverysize...
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Adipositivity: The Adipositivity Project is a fat photoactivism website with a focus on broadening narrow beauty ideals and encouraging body acceptance and love.
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[Text reads: Hey girl. The ritual fat shaming and body hate done in the name of New Year’s “self-improvement” and legitimated on the grounds of “health” ignores the way in which diverse bodies have different appropriate levels of weight distributions, such that weight loss and exercise can actually put stresses on the body which in fact worsen health. Why can’t we just eat what we like and love our bodies instead of trying to change them?]
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And here is the fabulous Dr Linda Bacon from HAES www.haescommunity...
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This is amazing. Thank you Marilyn Wann for making this, for standing up for kids everywhere and for standing against Fat Bigotry and Size Discrimination.
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Focus on how your body feels...not the number on the scale.
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Please please please please. You are not the sum of your size.
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FAT ACCEPTANCE AND NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS: HATE THE DIET, NOT THE DIETER
nice interview of Linda Bacon on "Health At Every Size" #HAES (please ignore the airbrushed photo that supposedly promotes "size diversity" -- doesn't have anything to do with Linda Bacon or HAES)
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There is no reason not to love every single part of your body.
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Not long ago, "weight diversity speakers" advocating "fat acceptance" for the "fat pride" community would have been a gag on the US TV satire The Daily Show. Nowadays, they are a forceful voice in American politics. Authors such as Marilyn Wann (Fat? So!) and Linda Bacon (Health at Every Size) challenge the assumption that fat is a problem. For the two-thirds of Americans now overweight or obese, their message is beguiling: being heavy does not equate with being unhealthy. What's really required, they argue, is a cultural attitude shift, whereby we stop sneering at the obese as over-indulgent slobs, accept the high-calorie habit as a defensible lifestyle choice and expand our aesthetic to embrace fat as beautiful.
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Health at Every Size (HAES): It is a focus on overall health and well-being, not weight loss. Here are the basic tenets of HAES, developed by pioneer Deb Burgard, PhD: Acceptance of and respect for the diversity of body sizes and shapes A recognition that health and well-being are multi-dimensional, and that they include physical, social, spiritual, occupational, emotional and intellectual aspects Promotion of all aspects of health and well-being for people of all sizes Promotion of eating in a manner which balances individual nutritional needs, hunger, satiety, appetite and pleasure Promotion of individually appropriate, enjoyable life enhancing physical activity, rather than exercise that is focused on a goal of weight loss
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Health at Every Size (HAES) is a lifestyle that encourages healthy eating and enjoyable physical activity as a way to feel better and live longer. Unlike other programs, it does not believe weight loss through dieting is the way to become healthy. Scientific evidence supports this idea. In a 2006 study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 78 obese women were placed into either the Health at Every Size program or a traditional weight-loss program. Women in the weight-loss program were instructed to eat less, count calories, and exercise more. <<< Read this article!! It's brilliant. This is TRUE health.
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![[Text reads: Hey girl. The ritual fat shaming and body hate done in the name of New Year’s “self-improvement” and legitimated on the grounds of “health” ignores the way in which diverse bodies have different appropriate levels of weight distributions, such that weight loss and exercise can actually put stresses on the body which in fact worsen health. Why can’t we just eat what we like and love our bodies instead of trying to change them?]](http://media-cache5.pinterest.com/upload/206321226648664440_l5JdkESG_b.jpg)
Leann McArthur Curious if there is a link back to the original article? HAES has been pretty clear that if I'm not healthy, it's prudent to attend to that. While weight loss is not my primary goal (increasing movement, eating better is), I would be interested in seeing the original article.
Emily Anderson http://healthateverysizeblo... and this is another great post: http://friendofmarilyn.com/...
Leann McArthur Thanks, I appreciate this.