Category: HAES
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What’s My Cue?
3 comments on What’s My Cue?Remember I posted about Health at Every Size, and one of my follow-ups was that it inspired me to make two changes to my eating habits? Eat foods with more fiber. Plan an afternoon snack. Well, I’ve been doing both of these for a few weeks now. The good: My blood sugar isn’t fluctuating as […]
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Overweight Doesn’t Mean Unhealthy, But Lose Weight Anyway!
Sarah Mahoney’s article on MSNBC (and Prevention magazine) looked promising: The overweight debate: Healthy and heavy? Has science overemphasized the danger of a few extra pounds? The article itself? Not so much. It does start off well, noting how people within the CDC’s “overweight” BMI range have longer life expectancies than those at “normal” weights […]
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Fit or Not Fit
This came in as a comment to one of the “Day in the life” posts. One movement involves leaning forward; this irritates my lower back so I substitute something else. Jesus! You’re practically crippled by your weight. A normal person would be able to do this easily. It”s enough of a workout to get my […]
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Fat Acceptance in the NY Times Sunday Magazine :)
The New York Times Sunday Magazine discovered fat acceptance. There’s a good summary of fat acceptance, down to noting that the word “fat” is used deliberately, same as “queer”. There’s discussion of Linda Bacon’s Health At Every Size study & book. One quote I liked: Asking how someone got to be so fat is […]
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Links!
This 2007 interview with Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size (review here). From New York Times writer Gina Kolata, a discussion of various types of medical studies and how to read them (skeptically). The accompanying graphic is cool too. From Noël Figart, The Unfit Person’s Guide to Fitness. I found this to be […]
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HAES book: BMI & Politics
In her book Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight (reviewed here) Linda Bacon recalls her days as a PhD candidate. This was also when the BMI standards were lowered, and, coincidently enough, her mentor, Judy Stern, was a member of the NIH Obesity Task Force.* When I expressed my surprise of the standards […]
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HAES book: “But not dieting is harmful, right?”
You may have read about the study Linda Bacon conducted comparing a standard diet program with a nondieting, “Health at Every Size”-style program, or my post about Bacon’s book (Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth about Your Weight) yesterday. This is a story from the book that I wanted to shout from the treetops. […]
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Linda Bacon’s Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Linda Bacon earned a master’s in psychotherapy, with a specialty in eating disorders and body image, and worked as a therapist before going back to school for a master’s degree in exercise science. Then she completed a doctorate in physiology, with a focus in nutrition and weight regulation. (There’s a reason this book’s 326 pages […]
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