Health at Every Size
by Lindo Bacon
The argument that health behaviors, not weight, should be the goal, that weight stigma causes harm, and that intuitive eating and joyful movement improve health markers regardless of size. It is controversial and some claims are debated; the evidence on stigma and the failure of dieting is well supported.
Read it if…
you want the case for weight-neutral health from its best-known source.
Skip it if…
you want weight loss and are not open to questioning it.
Three things you will actually use
- Behaviors predict health better than the scale.
- Stigma harms health directly.
- Respect for the body precedes care of it.
Do this first
Pick one health behavior, sleep, movement, vegetables, and improve it without weighing yourself.
Our verdict
Controversial and partly well founded.
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