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Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (2008)

by Linda Bacon(Favorite Author)

4.18 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1933771585 (ISBN13: 9781933771588)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

BenBella Books

review 1: I struggled with this book and not because it was badly written (the author has a readable, non-academic style of writing). I suppose because its main premise is so far from what I've believed all my life, I found it rather difficult to accept. While I agree with the author's view that it is counterproductive to berate oneself and go into cycles of self-hate and binging on food, I perhaps still hold on to the belief that one simply needs to positively re-frame one's journey to fitness (at a normal weight) rather than accept that one is fat for life.While I agree that it may be more physically (and emotionally) damaging for an obese person to yo-yo diet, I also continue think that an obese is likely to have more energy if they *very gradually* became fitter (and lighter). ... moreI don't think severe diets are helpful (and in fact I also think they are detrimental). I have so much more vitality when I'm lighter that it's hard for me to accept that being overweight, let alone obese, gives one a well-rounded quality of life.I also did not dislike the book because it does promote a healthier lifestyle, a better attitude towards food and fitness and generally encourages the reader to take positive steps towards living more healthily. And there's a part of me that thinks that the book offers unhappy, disillusioned people a better perspective which in turn leads to an overall happier, fitter and more fulfilled life.Maybe my views about fat are so ingrained that's it is going to take more than this book to be more thoroughly accepting of it. Though I can also see that it is perhaps because I've been programmed to think this way and that it is not necessarily a healthy belief.
review 2: Newsflash: Diets don't work! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who has a body. I'd heard about the Health at Every Size idea a while back and immediately thought it made sense - listen to your body, embrace healthy eat what you want lifestyle, recognize that being fat is not a disease and learn to love your body. Though I've never considered myself to be a "dieter," reading this book gave me great insight into my relationship with food and my body. The author's findings are back up with lots of scientific research, including her own study and this book gives a lot of tools and resources for embracing a healthy lifestyle and combating fat discrimination. less

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