You Should Know :: HAES Blog

February 27, 2012 18 Comments by Ashley @ Nourishing the Soul

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As the alarm bells have grown louder and more piercing over the last several years, warning us that Obesity kills! and Fat is the devil!, a quieter voice has been breaking through the noise. If we can allow ourselves to turn down the volume on the anti-fat rhetoric for a moment – and I recognize that’s asking a lot – we learn from this voice that, oh… maybe, it’s possible, perhaps… we got it all wrong?

It’s one thing to challenge the diet and weight-loss industry, but to also rock the entire medical community’s entrenched belief system about what healthy means… Well, that’s a big job. Fortunately for us, there is another, strong community fighting this battle. The movement is called Health at Every Size, which I’ve told you about before here, and it’s founded on the idea that fat does not equate to unhealthy.

Even those of us for whom this concept doesn’t sound totally bizarre sometimes find ourselves falling into fat stigmatization, even in subtle ways. We accept the fact that our workplaces are hosting a weight-loss competition among employees or we complement a friend who’s slimmed down, often without even knowing the circumstances.

To do the work required of us – which is to fight and defeat these untrue assumptions about weight – we need resources. That’s why I was so thrilled when the Association for Size Diversity and Health launched the Health at Every Size Blog.

Since it’s first post last June, the blog continues to grow in the complexity and richness of ideas. It offers a space for a thorough look at some of the issues that crop up when thinking about weight and health (which we all too often think about in these days of disgusting and shaming campaigns).

One of the strengths of the site is that it is a collaborative effort of some of the most talented and brilliant minds in the HAES field. Deb Burgard, PhD, Linda Bacon, PhD, Jon Robison, PhD, and Michelle May, M.D. are all on my totally nerdy idols list (the list is nerdy, not them!), and they have each contributed incredibly thought-provoking pieces to the site.

Some of my favorite have included whether BMI is a good measure of health, if it’s possible to love your body and still want to lose weight, and whether we have it all wrong when it comes to treating binge eating.

If you haven’t had a chance to take a look, I urge you to check out what HAES is all about. Just remember that I warned you that it might turn your current paradigm on it’s ear. If you’re cool with that, click here.

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18 Comments

Charlie Stirling
94 days ago

This is a nice post. It is very very inspiring.
I haven’t had a chance to look at HAES, but will not waste any time now.

Thanks for sharing.

-Charlie
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Ms.Taylor
94 days ago

Obesity, really makes the confidence fades away… That’s why last month I enrolled in a fitness activity to loos my weight and back the aura that I have before. I know that this program will bring a huge help to a huge one…
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Lori Lieberman, RD, CDE, MPH, LDN
93 days ago

Along the lines of your message and that of HAES, and appropriate given NEDA week, I have put together a post to share with MDs who are large contributors to perpetuating the bias you so articulately address!
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Nicole Schuman
93 days ago

Thanks for the post! This will let the people suffering from obesity more conscious to their health. And to encourage them to loose weight. Good Job.
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Ayie
93 days ago

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Mrs.halvorsen
93 days ago

I love eating and I don’t what people say in my body figure, but when I have confined for two weeks because of my obesity I started to learn eating delicious but nutritious foods….
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Renz
92 days ago

This is an awareness for every body that you an be still healthier that you think in eating right foods and have a proper way of living… What is the purpose of eating different foods and become huge one if your health suffer into alarming type, its better to eat delicious but nutritious foods and have an healthier body…
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Samantha32
92 days ago

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Ruthy
92 days ago

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Francinne
91 days ago

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Ms.Amber
90 days ago

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Nancy
87 days ago

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wynonaelliott
86 days ago

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Rose37
83 days ago

I love eating but I love most my health, that’s why I am aware in every foods I take in order to make my life longer than I do…
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Vivian73
81 days ago

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Wynona
80 days ago

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Brien27
80 days ago

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health500
2 days ago

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