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  • Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
  • By: Christy Harrison
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  • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary

A how-to guide to reclaiming your time, money, health and happiness in our toxic diet culture.

In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-pound 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 recognise 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 (P)2019 Hachette Audio

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Ideology trumps over science

I got increasingly annoyed reading this book as it seems to be highly politicised. The fat are now to be viewed as the latest intersection category of identity politics and the book explicitly puts fat, trans and a person of colour at the apex of victimhood which I imagine might seem patronising to such a person.
Calorie controlled diets usually fail and we live in a culture where fat shaming is widespread. Whilst I'd agree with the twin premise of this book, I strongly disagree with the ideology that overlays this. It is not factual to say that 'living in a larger body' only results in harm because those who do so are oppressed and depressed or stressed by 'diet culture'; obesity is a downstream effect of a metabolic disorder in most cases so whilst it is wrong to say fat people are greedy or lazy, it is legitimate to be concerned about the health of someone who is obese (a medical term). Pehaps this book will make a person who feels oppressed by diet culture feel better but there is a valid reason for the stigma of being obese. Facts should trump feelings. Yes to F your beauty standards then but No to Healthy At Any Size (not possible beyond youth).
We can't conflate a beauty standard which is objective with a health standard which is based on medical facts around heavier people. Yes there is an industry that promotes weight loss products, gyms and special foods but this reflects a scientific consensus that being obese is strongly associated with disease risk and early death. Not the other way around.
Giving people permission to eat 'intuitively' in a food culture full of processed foods that are designed to be more compelling than real food, seems dangerous and yes I got the point that Real Food is just another version of diet culture but disagree. I totally agree that calorie controlled diets are pointless but putting yourself into a cultish bubble with its own language and overlaying it with a victim mentality won't help people who get sore knees, diabetes or heart failure in their middle years.

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Good but not great

This book is good enough, although it really just goes over old ground covered by previous books on the subject, and doesn’t add anything new. I could have done without the constant “quote unquote”, which was irritating. It was interesting to listen to this during the lockdown, where for the first time for many of us in the UK we are experiencing what food scarcity fears feel like. I am definitely eating much more, which I attributed to stress, but on reflection is definitely due to the restriction on food choices, variety, and fears over restocking. Makes me feel ashamed of having had so much, when around the world people battle with food scarcity constantly. We are so over privileged. If I want a treat, I can drive to the store and choose from hundreds of items, in as much quantity as I want. Usually. Now, things are a little different, and it’s for sure having an impact. Good to see that acknowledged on the authors Instagram page.

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Life changing

Very informative and a great help if you are trying to move away from diet culture.

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No PDF?

Good book. Ok and well read but a pdf is talked about all the way through and there is no pdf to download? Please can this be rectified, thank you.

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incredible, a must read

I can't rate this book highly enough, a clear, comprehensive and compelling expose of the harm of diets, dieting and diet culture. Life-changing.

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Uninspiring

Obesity is not linked to earlier death or disease - right, I don’t think any medical professional would agree. I was looking for a book that would help me to be healthy without dieting but this book doesn’t do that. I don’t agree that you can be healthy at any weight.

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Everyone needs to read this

Stop wasting your time and your money on diet systems and body image fascism designed to make someone else rich. Fuck diet culture:

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Educational & Inspirational

I loved this book!! The research is thorough and the message clear. It's the perfect book if you're interested in the implications of weight-stigma, yo-yo dieting and diet culture in general. I'd love everyone to read this book... maybe then we'd be able to invite more people to ditch diet culture and find peace with food and their body!

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very good insite

really good very knowledgeable must listen. recently become very aware of the diet culture and the problems it's causing. really trying to understand it from a different out look. this audio teaches that very well

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Absolutely essential reading!

I rarely review, but this is such a great book, I want to encourage as many people as possible to read or listen to it. Even if you haven't got a history of dieting and weight cycling, you will be negatively affected by diet culture and will benefit and learn from this book.

If you DO have a history of chronic dieting and weight cycling then don't hesitate to read this book, and listen to the wealth of helpful podcasts hosted by the author. Thanks so much for this book!

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