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.
