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4.43 AVERAGE
4.43 AVERAGE
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What a load of codswallop.
What was good: No one should be shamed because of their weight or body type.
What was bad, I mean really bad: everything else.
I actually went back and checked. This is my 539th book. My average is 3 stars. I have assigned 6% two stars, and less than 1% (two or three books) one star. I would have assigned 0 stars for this if that was a recordable score.
No one should be bullied or shamed about their body. Full. Stop. Periodt. (my students pronounce it with a t in instances like this). However, even intimating that any eating behavior is healthy is a criminal disservice to readers. Weight can be tied to health, if it is causing stress to joints (which it can and does), if it is stressing organs like the heart (which it can and does). Salt can be tied to blood in a small percentage of patients - and those patients should be identified and appropriately counseled. However, to pretend that a diet consisting mostly of refined sugar and fat in highly processed foods is healthy is absurd. To insist that it is not tied to weight/health is delusional.
When someone tries to defend allowing a child to eat as stick of butter as a healthy dinner... it's time to call the guys with the butterfly nets.
What a load of codswallop.
What was good: No one should be shamed because of their weight or body type.
What was bad, I mean really bad: everything else.
I actually went back and checked. This is my 539th book. My average is 3 stars. I have assigned 6% two stars, and less than 1% (two or three books) one star. I would have assigned 0 stars for this if that was a recordable score.
No one should be bullied or shamed about their body. Full. Stop. Periodt. (my students pronounce it with a t in instances like this). However, even intimating that any eating behavior is healthy is a criminal disservice to readers. Weight can be tied to health, if it is causing stress to joints (which it can and does), if it is stressing organs like the heart (which it can and does). Salt can be tied to blood in a small percentage of patients - and those patients should be identified and appropriately counseled. However, to pretend that a diet consisting mostly of refined sugar and fat in highly processed foods is healthy is absurd. To insist that it is not tied to weight/health is delusional.
When someone tries to defend allowing a child to eat as stick of butter as a healthy dinner... it's time to call the guys with the butterfly nets.
100 stars!!
Do you have a mouth that consumes food and ears and eyes that read and hear? Do you parent someone or have been parented? Then this book is for you!
Amazing and hard read that breaks down the influence that diet culture and weight stigma has had on our lives and how we can break that cycle for the younger generation.
I think this is one I might buy so I can have as a references!
Do you have a mouth that consumes food and ears and eyes that read and hear? Do you parent someone or have been parented? Then this book is for you!
Amazing and hard read that breaks down the influence that diet culture and weight stigma has had on our lives and how we can break that cycle for the younger generation.
I think this is one I might buy so I can have as a references!
Holy Moses - this book is INSANELY comprehensive and data driven (which I so appreciate).
I started out reading this book, but swapped to the audio format about halfway through (it’s read by the author). I would recommend having a hard copy on hand for future reference, but listen to the book in an episodic format chapter-by-chapter.
The sections on talking to your kids as their bodies change during puberty and how social media impacts both kids and adults were fantastic and I definitely left this book with a ton of information and tips on how to challenge anti-fat bias amongst peers, grandparents, and doctors.
100% recommend all parents read this!
I started out reading this book, but swapped to the audio format about halfway through (it’s read by the author). I would recommend having a hard copy on hand for future reference, but listen to the book in an episodic format chapter-by-chapter.
The sections on talking to your kids as their bodies change during puberty and how social media impacts both kids and adults were fantastic and I definitely left this book with a ton of information and tips on how to challenge anti-fat bias amongst peers, grandparents, and doctors.
100% recommend all parents read this!
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challenging
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funny
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medium-paced
There is no perfect way to address this subject but I think that this book did a really excellent job hitting the key areas. Some parts were definitely a bit triggering but also very thought provoking as I work through my approach as a parent. Audio was a good format for me and I will definitely be referring back to aspects of it again in the future.
I’ve experienced most of what she describes even growing up in the 60/70s.
informative
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Fascinating. As someone who has never had body positivity, this was a good book to read to begin to change that.