Anti-Diet

Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

De: Christy Harrison

Narrado por: Christy Harrison

Reclaim your time, money, health, and happiness from our toxic diet culture with groundbreaking strategies from a registered dietitian, journalist, and host of the Food Psych podcast.

68 percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90% of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66% of people who embark on weight-loss efforts end up gaining more weight than they lost. If dieting is so clearly ineffective, why are we so obsessed with it?

The culprit is diet culture, a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and 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 way of thinking about food and bodies is so embedded in the fabric of our society that it can be hard to recognize. 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 multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it's infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and 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 helps readers reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.

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"Nutritionist Harrison, host of the podcast Food Psych, debuts with this impassioned and articulate plea for readers to reject 'diet culture' and reclaim their lives...Harrison's enlightening, heretical tract provides a new perspective on the dieting narrative which many take as gospel truth."
—Publishers Weekly

"Anti-Diet is the 'diet' book you need to read headed into 2020. If you've been gearing up to embark on yet another diet, protocol, reset or reboot come Jan. 1, I have a different suggestion: Hit the pause button on that plan and read Christy Harrison's book. Harrison, a registered dietitian and journalist, thoroughly and elegantly lays out the strange origins of modern diet culture...then presents a path to truly holistic health that's based on self-care, not self-control."—Carrie Dennett, The Seattle Times

"Brilliant! Anti-Diet should be required reading for every health professional and in every health-related class. Harrison bridges the gap between intuitive eating and social justice issues in an engaging and compassionate way. She exposes toxic diet culture -- its evolution, who profits by it, and how it hurts you. 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

"A huge burden has been lifted: I no longer have to revise my first book to reflect current understanding! Christy Harrison beat me to it. I'm blown away by how good Anti-Diet is. Using a social justice lens, well-researched and smart science, captivating storytelling, and practical advice, this book will help you reclaim your life from the throttle of diet culture."
—Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size, co-author of Body Respect

"This book will change the way you see the world and live your life forever. Thank God for Christy Harrison."
—Jes Baker, author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

"As compassionate as it is scholarly, Christy Harrison's Anti-Diet goes deep to expose the sordid underbelly of the diet culture but it doesn't leave you there. With healing-oriented strategies that address our physical, emotional, and social selves, you will finish this book armed with ways to reclaim all that dieting has taken from you, and gain a new perspective that is empowering and sustainable."
—Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, author of Eat to Love

An entertaining and empowering read!

It was fascinating to discover the many toxic layers of diet culture and it's origins. The author is relatable, humorous and brilliant. She makes a powerful case for leaving diets behind and embracing a self-care to health and happiness in a much more broad and compassionate way.

Wonderful for newbies or veterans in anti-diet diet culture

Highly recommended for anyone that wants to learn more about diet culture and intuitive eating. So eye-opening and well done. I’ve already read multiple books on this topic and have been into the intuitive eating lifestyle for over a year, and Christy Harrison does a wonderful job with a major overview of this topic. Everything was considered and I still learned a ton! Loved it!

Revolutionary

I’m so glad I stumbled across this book. Well worth the listen, even if you don’t agree wholeheartedly. It will make you question the “why” and “how” we have gotten to this place with our relationship with food.

the history of diet

it sounds well researched and written but was not what I was looking for. if you're looking for a history of body image and diet, this book is for you

Great info

Great info on the perils of the diet world and well written. Would definitely recommend