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A review by librarysue
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
5.0
This is an important book: 'll be thinking about it for a long time. the three big takeaways I get from this respected journalist and researcher are:
1. There is no scientific consensus that moderately overweight people have adverse health consequences; actually the opposite is often true. You can be overweight and be perfectly healthy.
2. Hosts of studies show that dieting most often results in increased weight gain in the end: dieting seems to trigger metabolic changes that kick in "whenever our bodies' weight drops below the range researchers call our "set point" or the place where our bodies are genetically programmed to function best." The multi-billion dollar diet industry has not changed this.
3. It appears that scientists don't know why some people are fat and others are thin, but people have come in all shapes and sizes since time began. How much happier we'd all be if we could simply accept that.
This woman is on to something!
1. There is no scientific consensus that moderately overweight people have adverse health consequences; actually the opposite is often true. You can be overweight and be perfectly healthy.
2. Hosts of studies show that dieting most often results in increased weight gain in the end: dieting seems to trigger metabolic changes that kick in "whenever our bodies' weight drops below the range researchers call our "set point" or the place where our bodies are genetically programmed to function best." The multi-billion dollar diet industry has not changed this.
3. It appears that scientists don't know why some people are fat and others are thin, but people have come in all shapes and sizes since time began. How much happier we'd all be if we could simply accept that.
This woman is on to something!