Body insecurity is rampant, and it doesn't have to be. They also help make sense of how poverty and oppression?such as racism, homophobia, and classism?affect life opportunity, self-worth, and even influence metabolism. Lucy Aphramor's Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve health. It's time for a cease-fire in the war against obesity. Popular methods for weight loss don't get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can't match unattainable body standards. In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality?not the numbers on a scale. That much is true?but the epidemic is NOT obesity. You've heard it before: there's a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we're in trouble. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. Mainstream health science has let you down.
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