Author of Health at Every Size, Linda Bacon, has released more letters for all of us to use in our fight against size discrimination and in our journeys to spread the message about Health at Every Size as a superior model for increased health. Enjoy this one, which addresses those people who think that accepting people of all sizes is a dangerous practice.
GO GIRLS! (Giving Our Girls Inspiration and Resources for Lasting Self-Esteem) is a program developed by Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention, Inc. (EDAP; http://www.edap.org). Its goal is to prevent the development of eating disorders among high school students through media literacy education, media activism, and media advocacy (1). Media literacy education involves enhancing participants’ ability to analyze critically messages in various media forms and to create media messages that reflect an alternative viewpoint (2). The media activism component relates to changing the media through protesting or praising particular media products. Media advocacy involves using the media to communicate messages in the participants’ own words with the goal of changing important aspects of their environment.
Few doubt that the mass media portrayal of body image has a dramatic developmental effect on girls in our society. This article reviews some of the primary theories about this phenomenon and the available research on the subject.
As dangerous as the side effects of regular weight loss can be when weight cycling is taken into account, rapid weight loss poses its own set of serious dangers. This article details the kind of research that has already been done in this field and explains the consequences of rapidly losing weight.
Dr. Jon Robison wrote this amazing Special Report that was published by the Wellness Council of America (WELCOA). It discusses the detrimental affects of obsessing about weight loss and dieting and following a weight-centered approach to health rather than a behavior centered one. These ten steps are excellent suggestions for how to begin living your life now the way it should be lived.
A triad of problems has been known to occur in athletic women and also women who are very thin. Efforts to combat these three illnesses and their collective appearance has been made, and this article discusses ways that such women can be approached and treated to restore optimum health.
This article is written for the health care professional who wants to begin learning how to implement a Health at Every Size approach to lifestyle and behavior with patients. This is, admittedly, a challenging task at first that takes some getting used to, especially considering the pressure from most health care providers to simply recommend weight loss. However, with practice and the derivative results in patients’ health, it will be seen how beneficial a move to the new Health at Every Size paradigm is.
The approach towards weight loss may not be doing what we think it does. Indeed, rather than create the health benefits that we presume, a focus on weight loss may be preventing us from concentrating on what’s important, like activity, diet, social ties, spiritual and emotional well-being. This essay is a consideration of weight control paradigms and resulting programs.
This amazing resource should be passed along to every person in the medical profession to help them learn how to adjust their practices to professionally and appropriately accommodate larger patients. This open letter was graciously provided by Alice Ansfield of the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research as suggestions for Health Care Professionals.
This is the second part in a two-part series that details the ways in which the emphasis on weight loss is not as good for the general public as an emphasis on healthy behaviors.
After a brief summary and some key references detailing the medically understood fact that sustainable weight loss is untenable and that salutary health effects can result from healthful behaviors independent of weight loss, the author proceeds to outline the tenets of a size acceptance approach to health.
In this review, we address the prevailing view of obesity as a major threat to public health and find that this paradigm is based on incomplete consideration of the evidence. After reviewing diabetes, hypertension and hypercholesterolemia (Part 1), and mortality (Part 2), we advocate a wellness approach focused on healthy lifestyle and treating disease in the obese, rather than treating obesity as a disease.
This is a downloadable PDF article from the April 2007 edition of American Psychologist. It is summarized as such: The prevalence of obesity and its associated health problems have increased sharply in the past 2 decades. New revisions to Medicare policy will allow funding for obesity treatments of proven efficacy. The authors review studies of the long-term outcomes of calorie-restricting diets to assess whether dieting is an effective treatment for obesity. These studies show that one third to two thirds of dieters regain more weight than they lost on their diets, and these studies likely underestimate the extent to which dieting is counterproductive because of several methodological problems, all of which bias the studies toward showing successful weight loss maintenance. In addition, the studies do not provide consistent evidence that dieting results in significant health improvements, regardless of weight change. In sum, there is little support for the notion that diets lead to lasting weight loss or health benefits.
That’s right, our wonderful Mental Wellness expert, who helps you feel better in your own body with her fun tips and fascinating articles every week, was on Plus Model Radio with Chenese Lewis. Listen to all of the wonderful advice she has to offer and even hear her mention More of Me to Love!
Looking for a way to get a pick-me-up? Read these 14 affirmations and recite them often. Believe them. They’re not meant to brainwash you into some false reality but to wake you from the false reality that has led many to believe that only thin people are beautiful or worthy. These will help you realize that you are beautiful and worthy just the way you are.
The Largesse Network has provided these 14 wonderful ways to better health - and none of them involves dieting! Learn some great ways to start being healthier right now.
This wonderful list adeptly summarizes the many reasons that dieting is more harmful than helpful. Thanks to the Council on Size & Weight Discrimination for this list!
Dr. Peggy Elam, renowned psychologist, Health at Every Size advocate, radio-show host, and publisher, brings us her 12 steps to living life with a Health at Every Size approach.
Are you having trouble getting your doctor or other health care professionals to stop focusing on your weight and to understand the Health at Every Size approach. Dr. Linda Bacon has drafted this letter for you to give to you doctor. Let us know how it goes in our Doctor and Health Professionals Forum.
This letter is a sample letter by Dr. Linda Bacon that can be freely used by anyone wishing to share Health at Every Size with her or his loved ones. If you are tired of your friends and family badgering you about your weight, but don’t know how to tell them that you can be healthy at your current size, try this letter.
This wonderful pledge is brought to you by Dr. Linda Bacon, author of the sensational Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight.
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