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nutrition, prioritizing good
 
nutri-washing
 
O
 
obesity
 
epidemic manufactured
 
fear of
 
kills myth
 
promotes disease myth
 
obesogens
 
Oliver, Eric
 
omega-3 fatty acids
 
opiates
 
opioids
 
orlistat
 
Ornish diet
 
P
 
parabiosis
 
paying attention when eating
 
peace movement, HAES as a
 
peaceful environment, eating in a
 
phenylethylamine
 
physical activity, prioritizing
 
plant-based diets
 
plates, eating off smaller
 
pleasure eating
 
politics, victims of fat
 
politics, victims of food
 
pollution affecting weight
 
portions, eating smaller
 
premenstrual cravings
 
present, living in the
 
presentation of food
 
processed foods
 
addiction to
 
avoiding
 
craving for
 
effect on hunger
 
and food politics
 
PROP (6-n-propylthiouracil)
 
protection against negative self-talk
 
protein, effect on hunger
 
protein, getting the right amount of
 
R
 
rats
 
addictive nature of food
 
eternal hunger
 
resisting weight loss
 
setpoints of
 
reason for eating, understanding
 
regulation of ideal weight.
see
setpoint weight
 
relaxation and sleep, prioritizing
 
resisting weight loss
 
resource guide
 
respecting yourself
 
restrained eating
 
Rubens, Peter Paul
 
“rules” of food intake
 
S
 
satisfying your hunger
 
scale, loving your
 
self-acceptance without weight loss
 
serotonin
 
setpoint weight
 
changing your
 
emotional starvation
 
and eternal hunger
 
and good nutrition
 
and high-fructose corn syrup
 
and internal wiring
 
pushing up with diet and exercise
 
as a range
 
related to eating habits
 
rising through history
 
shame backfires
 
shortcuts to weight loss
 
sibutramine
 
Sisyphus
 
sleep and relaxation, prioritizing
 
sleep habits affecting weight
 
social bias toward heavy people
 
Social Security Administration
 
solving weight “problem”
 
soul, respecting your
 
soybeans, foods made from
 
Spurlock, Morgan
 
Stern, Judith
 
Stonewall rebellion
 
stress
 
affecting weight
 
hormones related to fat intake
 
prioritizing management of
 
studies
 
addictive nature of food
 
bacteria affecting weight
 
Chinese, weight of
 
context of food
 
“death by fat”
 
“disease-promoting fat”
 
eating smaller portions
 
eternal hunger
 
Harvard Alumni
 
health benefits of milk
 
Heritage Family
 
Midwest Exercise Trial
 
paying attention when eating
 
pleasure eating
 
pollution affecting weight
 
resisting weight loss
 
restrained eating
 
school lunches
 
setpoints of humans
 
setpoints of rats and mice
 
sleep habits affecting weight
 
stress affecting weight
 
super-sizing food portions
 
Women’s Health
 
“you control your weight” myth
 
sugar cravings
 
Super Size Me
 
super-sizing food portions
 
support, finding internal and external
 
support letter to friends and family
 
surgery, weight-loss
 
Swarzc, Sandy
 
sweeteners, artificial
 
swimming as a form of exercise
 
T
 
tastes, changing your
 
temptation to eat
 
terrorism, obesity compared to
 
theobromine
 
“thinner is more attractive” myth
 
tributyltin chloride (TBT)
 
tryptophan
 
V
 
values, shaping new weight
 
Van Loan, Marta
 
Venus of Willendorf
 
victimization.
see
politics, victims of fat; politics, victims of food
 
viruses affecting weight
 
volume, choosing foods with high
 
W
 
walking as a form of exercise
 
weight, setting ideal.
see
setpoint weight
 
weight loss, resisting
 
wiring, internal for healthy weight
 
Women’s Health Initiative
 
Women’s Health Study
 
World Health Organization
 
World War II
 
X
 
Xenical
 
Y
 
“you can trust the experts” myth
 
“you control your weight” myth
 
Z
 
Zone diet
 
ABOUT LINDA BACON, PHD
 
Like many men and women, Linda Bacon used to be preoccupied with her own weight. Bacon’s pain and obsession about her weight fueled her determination to understand everything about weight regulation.
 
Bacon earned a master’s degree in psychotherapy, with a specialty in eating disorders and body image, and began work as a psychotherapist. Her career led her to a greater understanding about herself and her relationship with food and weight. With questions still unanswered, Bacon went back to school to pursue a master’s degree in exercise science, specializing in metabolism. Bacon continued to broaden her education and went on to complete a doctoral program in physiology with a focus in nutrition and weight regulation from the University of California, Davis.
Through all of her studies and research, Bacon continually stumbled across the same disconnect. The science of weight regulation directly contradicts cultural assumptions as well as those promoted by the “experts.” Bacon’s experiences and academic training led her to an entirely different paradigm in weight regulation, where she finally found relief from her painful preoccupation and developed a healthy and pleasurable relationship with her body and with food.
Bacon feels fortunate to have conquered her food and weight obsession, and empathizes with the many others engaged in their own personal battle with food and weight. She has dedicated her career towards helping others on that journey, designing the Health at Every Size program, which she tested meticulously in a clinical research study funded by the National Institutes of Health and co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
chronicles the remarkable findings of that study: that people can indeed overcome their weight problems and improve their health—without dieting, deprivation, or a focus on weight loss.
Bacon is currently a nutrition professor in the biology department at City College of San Francisco. She also serves as an associate nutritionist at the University of California, Davis and maintains a private consulting practice. A popular and compelling public speaker, she consistently draws large and enthusiastic crowds.
Bacon is well published in the scientific literature. She has also been a guest on national television and radio and has been cited as an expert in numerous print publications. Her credits include
Good Morning America,
ABC, ABC Nightline News, ABC 7 News,
Allure Magazine, AOL Health,
the
Atlantic,
BBC World News Radio, the
Economist,
Fox TV News,
Health Magazine,
the
Los Angeles Times,
MSNBC TV, MSN Life & Style, National Public Radio, the
New York Times, Newsweek, Prevention, Reuters, Self, Shape, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, WebMD,
and
Women’s Health.
a
You’ve heard this before. Every book about weight starts with the weight loss testimonial. It gets your hopes up and sells books. And when it doesn’t work the same way for you, that’s always your fault—you must have done something wrong, if you didn’t get the same results. So let me be clear: My weight-loss results aren’t typical, and I don’t mean to use my experience to promote any weight loss technique. I’ll be talking about this more later in the book.
 
b
For all the attention that’s been paid to the calorie over the years, we never got it right. A calorie is actually a very small measure of energy, and its generic use is technically incorrect. The correct term is “kilocalorie,” which refers to 1,000 calories. For the purposes of this book, though, I will continue to use the word “calories” because that’s the term people understand best.
 
c
No long-term studies have been conducted, but this is a reasonable assumption given that prolonged use is contraindicated and it stops working after use.
 
d
While there are many compelling arguments that challenge these actual numbers and the degree of the increase, it does seem evident that we’re eating more.
 
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