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.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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

Great message, inclusive, good narration

I was getting sick of trying to find the one specific way to get down a size and decided to read this to really give the "intuitive eating" idea a try. This lays it all out with scientific and logical support, with a big dose of compassion. Trans inclusive, doesn't ignore issues of intersectionality although they are not the focus for certain parts of the book (i.e. parts of the book only fully apply if you are not food insecure, targeted by additional forms of discrimination, etc., but the book acknowledges that and speaks to it, so, on the whole not bad).

There are a couple of places where I feel like she might go a bit far (for example, in diets that eliminate certain foods, she discounts these completely unless it's for an anaphylactic allergy. I have a reaction to dairy where every time I eat it, I get really achy joints. I don't do this because of orthorexia, I would love to be able to eat dairy. But it makes me feel bad, so I don't. It's not anaphylactic, and to me it's very real. Other than that, I don't feel condescended to or preached to, which is good. There's no "snap out of it, sister!" kind of rah rah language, which I appreciate.

time for a change

Although I don't believe some of the history of diet culture, I found this book intriguing and needed to revise our way of thinking about our bodies. I will listen again if I need a reminder.

Life Changing

This journey of loving my body and finding intuitive eating was kind of on accident. I just needed some solid books to read for my 2021 reading goals and this was one that was suggested. Wow. I’m mostly blown away by the research that shows dieting/restricting and mental health go hand in hand. So much more than I had ever thought, or even wanted to believe. It is so well put together and I appreciated it’s look at diet and health culture from almost every angle. Forever changed because you can’t unhear what you learn in this book.

Gobsmacked! I needed this 34 years ago!

Gobsmacked. How I wish I would have had this book so many years ago...about the time my mother was putting me on my first diet. This book hits home because I've lived this life since I was probably 10 years old. The author does a great job bringing together the history and science of how we've gotten to where we are. It is clear that I have a lot of work to do to relearn and heal, but for the first time in a long time, it feels right.
The author did a great job reading her own book.

Self-compassion with food

I wish I'd had this book 35, 25, 15 years ago. Christy's podcast has long been a lifeline to self-acceptance and sanity with my own food and body issues. She's conscientious and works hard to include a wide range of cultural eating experiences, which apparently upsets some readers (looking at you, Sandie Lynch; maybe you should be more uncomfortable with the fact that racism persists in your profession than you were with learning the history of it). This book is invites us to surrender our obsession with what we eat and reject the pressure to make shrinking ourselves a focus of our time and energy. Christy reminds us that with kindness and self-love, we can begin to heal our relationship with food and our bodies.