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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
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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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- Amazon Customer
- 28-04-20
Amazing!
This book is great if you want to learn the science behind HAES, diet culture, intuitive eating and joyful movement! Highly recommend to anyone and everyone.
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- Rebekah
- 04-08-20
Thoughtful take on fat phobia
Super interesting take on dieting and fat phobia in medicine. The breakdown of inequality's effect on health outcomes was really shocking and important in contextualising weight and health outcomes.
I really enjoyed it as a read overall, and as a book it has changed the way I think about and understand my body, though I must say I was unimpressed by the eating advice. She used epidemiologic research (which she had previously criticised) in giving advice on protein intake, which I think undermines the possibility of body recomposition as a response to set point theory (i.e. gaining muscle and losing fat while maintaining body weight). I also don't think it was particularly helpful, as it followed a large chapter on socioeconomic disparities causing fatness, yet her recommendations on eating primarily revolved around eating lots of fresh plant based foods, which she had already acknowledged were harder to access.
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- Natasha Crowther
- 09-06-23
Everyone should read this book
Strips back the stigma of weight and offers a practical alternative. If we all knew the contents of this book the world would be a happier place
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-07-19
not read by Celeste Oliva?
This sounds like a text to speech app read it; it's unbearable to listen to.
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- laughing fingers
- 06-08-20
Essential reading for body acceptance and health
Dr. Lindo Bacon and co-author offer scientific evidence, and a compassionate, holistic and justice informed approach to achievable health habits, self compassion and peace with our bodies. The brunt of advice from health professionals and in mainstream media take a very different road: one that has been unhelpful and ineffective to me personally. The voices in this book are all the more important and appreciated for this reason, highlighting systemic injustice as a major source of health imbalance, while empowering the individual. Yes, personal responsibility is relevant, and it exists within a larger picture where racism, major life stressors, biased "science" and poverty impact lives. So grateful for this book!
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- L. Timms
- 13-07-20
excellent
excellent book, I felt like I was healing while I listened to it. great for mental health, I'll definitely get their other work.
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- SarahD
- 18-12-18
Love the message, not executed well as an audiobook
I consider myself a HAES activist and this instalment has some interesting new material. However, I wish I had got it in book form as it doesn’t work well as an audiobook.
This is an emotive subject which was spoiled a bit by being read by a professional voice over artist. It lacked emotion, good intonation and made the subject more dry than it actually is. I would’ve loved to have heard it read by the authors, I think it would’ve been a totally different experience.
The other frustrating part is that it often makes important claims without sources. I’m guessing that in the book, these sources and research are at the back in an index. The audiobook would have been so much more useful to me had this information been included as each bit of research was presented. This makes it difficult for me to use this information in my work.
In conclusion, buy the book and skip the audio.
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