Exploring Intuitive Eating, Part III: Respecting Your Body

Bodies come in all shapes and sizes. But there are strong and powerful industries at work compelling us to believe we should all be working to achieve a narrow and arbitrary standard of smallness, thinly veiled by the banner of "health." Today we will talk about how genetics, rather than behavior, is the primary driver of body size and shape, about the forces that come together that make it so difficult to let go of trying to control our bodies, and about where to go from here. Beginning to unlearn the unhelpful things that disconnect us from our bodies doesn't magically result in us suddenly loving everything about our bodies, but it is a good first step. And even if our discomfort in our bodies persists, there are actions we can take to help us cultivate a posture and a practice of respecting our bodies.
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Intuitive Eating books, literature, and resources:
https://www.intuitiveeating.org
Feeding Humans Episode 8, How to Not Hate Your Body
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-not-hate-your-body/id1552454783?i=1000516015864
Misclassification of cardiometabolic health when using body mass index categories in NHANES 2005-2012
https://www.nature.com/articles/ijo201617
Books addressing the myths about "obesity" (not affiliate links)

Body Respect, Lindo Bacon
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Respect-Conventional-Health-Understand/dp/1940363195/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=body+respect&qid=1624898276&sr=8-1
Body of Truth, Harriet Brown
https://www.amazon.com/Body-Truth-Science-Obsession-Weight-ebook/dp/B00PWX7SW8/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Harriet+brown&qid=1624898545&sr=8-1
The Obesity Myth, Paul Campos
https://www.amazon.com/Obesity-Myth-Americas-Obsession-Hazardous/dp/1592400663/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Paul+campos&qid=1624898437&sr=8-3
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