Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

Cover Art for 9781940363431, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon, Lucy Aphramor
ISBN: 9781940363431
Publisher: BenBella Books, Inc.
Published: 2 September, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English
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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

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