Archive for January, 2016
1/29/16, Ravishly: Real Feminism for Real Life, Linda Bacon And The Health At Every Size Movement, by Joni Edelman
[snip] You may have seen the acronym “HAES” floating around the Internet, and that is because the “Health At Every Size” movement has taken over THE WHOLE WORLD. OK, maybe not the whole world, but much of the online body positivity/fat acceptance world for sure. [snip] HAES is an alternative route to health that bypasses body shame and diet culture, one that works for an awful lot of people. And we have Linda Bacon to thank for it! She literally wrote the book on the subject, and I was lucky enough to talk to her about it.
Link to articleWinter, 2016, BP Magazine, Mindful Meals: Reset Your Eating Habits Bite by Bite, by Jessica Craft
[snip] Linda Bacon, PhD, a nutrition professor at City College of San Francisco, whose books include Health at Every Size and Body Respect, leads her students through an exercise using foods they love and tend to overeat. She tells them to take a tiny bite and start noticing every sensation that the food elicits through their senses. “If you keep taking small bites of the chocolate, or whatever it is, and stay attentive to the experience, you notice that later bites don’t taste nearly as good as the initial bites.”
Link to article1/6/16, Upworthy, Last week, Melissa Harris-Perry was “a bit distressed” by a new commercial featuring Oprah Winfrey, by Robbie Couch
[snip] Harris-Perry is on to something. Because not only should someone’s size be irrelevant to their self-worth, it’s not even necessarily relevant to their physical health. Don’t take my word for it, though — listen to Linda Bacon, Ph.D. She’s a researcher and author of the new book, “Body Respect,” and well-versed in weight-regulation science. Bacon told Upworthy that, despite a lot of commonly held notions, you can’t tell much about an individual’s health simply by looking at their waistline. “Even the heavily entrenched idea that heavier people eat more than thinner people isn’t supported by data,” Bacon explained.
Link to article1/6/16, Shape, What’s a Healthy Weight, Anyway? The Truth About Being Fat But Fit, by K. Aleisha Fetters
[snip] “Weight and health aren’t one and the same thing,” says Bacon. “… It is very possible to be fat and healthy, and thin and unhealthy.”
Link to article