Anti-Diet
Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
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Christy Harrison
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Christy Harrison
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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.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans have dieted at some point in their lives. But upwards of 90 percent of people who intentionally lose weight gain it back within five years. And as many as 66 percent 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 listeners reclaim their bodies, minds, and lives so they can focus on the things that truly matter.
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©2019 Christy Harrison, MPH, RD (P)2019 Little, Brown SparkYou may also enjoy...
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What the critics say
"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
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- 2019-12-31
a must listen
informative and motivational. easy to listen to and read by the author.
I would recommend this book to any person stuck in diet culture or any person that struggles "to lose weight". it's an eye opener and can change your life leading you to better health, better happiness and relationships with yourself and those around you.
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- Anonymous User
- 2020-01-18
Must Read!
An excellent and required read for anyone who has every felt overwhelmed by the slew of conflicting diet and wellness advice we receive daily. An equally excellent read for the friends and family of people in bigger bodies to understand the reality of diet culture, weight stigma and the so called “obesity epidemic”.
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-05-12
Enlightening
This book was a lightening-bolt moment for me, completely blowing open long-held beliefs about body size, health and diet culture. An excellent investment of your time.
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- Jeannie Mansell
- 2020-11-03
Blowing My Mind!
I've been on a diet my entire life! This book has made me rethink how I feel about this and led me to some concrete actions to change my relationship and thought process when it comes to food and eating.
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- Gothlix
- 2021-07-21
This book was life changing for me!
Iloved it, it was almost too short so I'm listening again! I highly recommend this to everyone living in western society with our whack body standards and ideals around food. life changing.
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- Priya Kumar
- 2021-01-17
Eye Opening
Harrison provides a much needed commentary on diet culture based on facts and research. She truly aims to connect to dieters like myself who have been burdened by guilt and misplaced personal failure that the diet industry makes billions off of. A very insightful and freeing read.
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- Chris Wood
- 2020-02-09
I'm out of diet jail forever!!
I have wanted to feel this free my whole life. I didn't think it could be possible but truly, I am out of diet jail.
Now I can focus on my self-care and on my dreams because I don't have to entertain food thoughts every second of the day.
I highly recommend this to everyone, no matter what level of craziness you have toward food. My hope is for the rest of our culture to get out of diet jail too and to start living our dreams no matter what we eat, what our size and no matter what our weight.
I'm so grateful.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-06-06
Love this book!
I love Christy's podcast and this book! They have been so helpful and inspiring for me on my journey to heal my disordered eating and reject all of the diet culture messages that we get bombarded with every day.
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Mind Blown
Wow! This book has all the scientific and historical background that I needed to convince my skeptical mind that dieting is bullsh*t.
This stuff should be preached from the mountaintop!!!!
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- Samantha D
- 2021-02-11
Amazing
This was a required reading for a university course and I absolutely loved it! It was great to listen and hear Christy read it herself, too. I’m really glad I had the chance to read this book as a young adult so that I can take the necessary steps to ensure diet culture does not steal anymore of my money, time, and life!
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