Podcasts and videos:
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https://www.laureleeroark.com/podcast-1/episode/36bb2c9c/episode-74-truth-with-special-guest-nancy-ellis-ordway?fbclid=IwAR0AxwOxnv-5fywasq
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkhKN686psA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3o-UXZhyKzZI-J1CgP2Vp0wumB4MgnnhFi7xxiinZOAM06x-YLlSvcooQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOpnodHiuEg&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1WlFHOzX5U3V1hrVexWS7_HTpgqYet7jzvKAR2rTt8Tg8d93mn9g4gjXw
Suggested reading, Weight neutrality, Health At Every Size®
Linda Bacon, Health At Every Size; The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Extensively researched, easy to read, practical and essential
Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand
Health at every size, personalized, with a focus on social justice
Hanne Blank, The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts
For beginner and experienced exercisers
Natalie Boero, Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American “Obesity Epidemic”
Reviews of various approaches to weigh loss and how they reinforce social control
Susan Bordo, Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
The links between Western culture's mind/body dichotomy and the cult of thinness
Harriet Brown, Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight –and
What We Can Do About It
Delightful mix of science and social commentary
Paul Campos, The Obesity Myth
Compelling argument that America's obsession with weight is hazardous to your health
Ragen Chastain, Fat: The Owner’s Manual
“Navigating a thin-obsessed world with your health, happiness and sense of humor intact”
Ragen Chastain (ed), The Politics of Size: Perspectives from the Fat Acceptance Movement
Two volumes covering topics such as activism, physical and mental health, education and athletics
Kaz Cooke, Real Gorgeous
Funny to read information about personal and cultural issues involving food, weight and body image
Jeanette DePatie, The Fat Chick Works Out!
“Fitness that’s fun and feasible for folks of all ages, shapes, sizes and abilities!”
Nancy Ellis-Ordway, Thrive At Any Weight: Eating to Nourish Body, Soul and Self Esteem
Why we have anxiety about food and weight, and what we can do about it. Renee Engeln, Beauty Sick: How the Cultural Obsession with Appearance Hurts Girls and Women
Cultural pressures and how they affect body image and quality of life
Amy Erdman Farrell, Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in America
Historical analysis of multiple cultural issues regarding body size
Glenn A. Gaesser, Big Fat Lies
Information about weight, health, fitness, and the dangers of dieting
Susan Greenhalgh, Fat Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat
“…the dangers of today’s epidemic of fat talk to individuals and society at large”
Christy Harrison, Anti-Diet
"Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating"
April Michelle Herndon, Fat Blame: How the War on Obesity Victimizes Women and Children
Cultural aspects and how they affect those who are already marginalized by class, race, age and gender
Pat Lyons and Debby Burgard, Great Shape
Fitness guide for large women - how to be fit at any size
Judith Matz and Ellen Frankel, Beyond A Shadow Of A Diet
"The therapist's guide to treating compulsive eating"
-------- The Diet Survivor's Handbook
"60 Lessons in eating, acceptance and self care"
Carol Emery Normandi and Laurelee Roark, It’s Not About Food
A guide for giving up obsession with food and dieting behaviors; well written, with specific suggestions and exercises. Eric Oliver, Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic
Our concern with obesity is more about profit and social prejudice than is it about health
Amy Pershing and Chevese Turner, Binge Eating Disorder: The Journey to Recovery and Beyond
Binge eating may be a reasonable coping response for surviving trauma
Esther Rothblum and Sondra Solovay (ed) The Fat Studies Reader
A collection of chapters ranging from health and social inequality to popular culture and embodiment
Jon Robison and Karen Carrier, The Spirit and Science of Holistic Health
An interesting new approach to illness, healing, and wellness using the Health at Every Size paradigm
Abigail Saguy, What’s Wrong with Fat? A cultural sociologist explores the ways that fatness is defined in current society, and the problems with the current understanding
Ellyn Satter, Child of Mine: Feeding with Love and Good Sense
Resources for any and all questions about children and eating
Virgie Tovar, You Have The Right To Remain Fat
An intriguing mix of memoir and astute observations of cultural pressures, with an emphasis on the racial and cultural bias beneath fat phobia
Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
How to push back against the systems of oppression that make money by making us insecure and how to heal our own injuries in the process
Todd Tucker, The Great Starvation Experiment: Ancel Keyes and the Men Who Starved for Science
Fascinating insight into the people and the process
Sondra Solovay, J.D. Tipping the Scales of Justice
Discrimination, prejudice and legal issues
Marilyn Wann, Fat!So? Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
Delightful commentary and encouragement about living large in a fat-phobic society
Anthony Warner, The Angry Chef's Guide to Spotting Bullsh*t in the World of Food: Bad Science and the Truth About Healthy Eating
A chef with a biochemistry degree thoroughly and humorously debunks diet fads
Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
Eating as described by a biological anthropologist
