Anti-Diet

Quit your diet and reclaim your time, money, health and happiness. Most people have dieted at some point in their life, counted calories and obsessed over the ever-changing rules of 'healthy eating.' But studies have shown that well over 90 per cent of people who lose weight regain it within five years. If dieting is so ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it? The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness with health and even moral virtue, promotes weight loss as a means of attaining higher status, and demonizes certain ways of eating while elevating others. It's sexist, racist, and classist, yet this approach to thinking about food and bodies is so embedded in the fabric of our society that it can be hard to identify. It masquerades as health, wellness, and fitness, and for some, it is all-consuming. In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multibillion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, well-being, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down and shows how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat 'perfectly' actually helps to improve people's health-no matter their size. Drawing on scientific research, personal experience, and stories from patients and colleagues, Anti-Diet provides a radical alternative to diet culture and will help you reclaim your body, mind, and life so you can focus on the things that truly matter. 'Written with a friendly touch of sass, Anti-Diet, is richly sourced with studies, stats, and expert interviews. I highly recommend this book to help you dismantle diet culture and to heal your own relationship with food, mind, and body.' Evelyn Tribole, coauthor of Intuitive Eating [website] christyharrison.com [Twitter icon] @chr1styharrison [Instagram icon] @chr1styharrison [FB icon] christyharrisonnutrition von Harrison, Christy