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Designed to challenge the growing obsession with thinness, this book reveals the profound mental and physical effects on women struggling with their weight. It examines the way weight obsession consumes women, shatters lives, and even kills.
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Doody's Book Review
With this book, the author presents a new approach to healthier living without dieting. Healthy choices are discussed while exploring societal pressures and myths. The author addresses the problems in today's weight-obsessed world while providing direction in how to break free with a new approach that helps people and does not harm them. It is a much-needed book for women experiencing obesity and its multiple effects on everyday life. According to the author, the book is written for the woman who is trying to find her way out of a limiting, weight-obsessed existence. She also offers direction to health professionals, educators, and policymakers who see the need to shift towards a health-centered approach to weight loss. The author is a credible expert with practical experience and appropriate education. The book is in two parts; in Part I the drive to be thin, hazards of weight loss, public manipulation, size prejudice, and the unremitting weight gain of the general population are covered. In Part II a new paradigm for healthy lifestyle choices is offered. The new model affirms the right to health at any size or weight. The book includes self-help tools, questionnaires, health-centered resources, websites, references, and an index. The title is somewhat deceiving in that it does not reflect the health-centered approach to better living through healthy choices. This is the first edition of a much-needed book. A health related paradigm is presented with a focus on healthy choices, physical activity, and feeling good about oneself at any size. This is a practical approach to a difficult, multifactorial problem affecting many women in today's society. Neva L. Crogan, PhD, RN, CS(Washington State University). Copyright 2001, Doody Publishing
Choice Review
An authority on weight management, Berg (Univ. of North Dakota School of Medicine) provides the most comprehensive and socially responsible guide to dealing with weight-obsession available to date. It's scope, intensity, and integrity is simply unparalleled. Berg systematically and eloquently argues that women need to know the risks associated with extreme dieting: "It's time to confess we don't know the answers.... Time to get serious about solving weight loss problems instead of letting weak or unethical leaders, a relentless diet industry, doctor's who dispense 'rainbow pills,' exploitative advertisers, and the media lead us into even deeper trouble." The book uncovers important, little-know facts--e.g., how government research reports manipulate the truth about the efficacy of popular weight-loss programs. Berg argues that by educating themselves and taking control of their lives, by shifting from a weight-centered to a health-centered approach, women can counteract the ubiquitous internal and external pressure to be thin. Delivering a powerful message to the weight-loss industry as well as to consumers, this title should help reshape attitudes, behaviors, and expectations. Berg provides excellent lists of health-centered resources and of health-centered Web sites. The references are extensive and up-to-date. Highly recommended to all readers--from undergraduates and the general public to faculty and professionals. R. Kabatznick; CUNY Queens College
Library Journal Review
"It's health at any size!" is this book's emphatic message to American women. Berg, a licensed nutritionist, the founder/editor of Healthy Weight Journal, and the author of several books, including Afraid To Eat: Children and Teens in Weight Crisis, argues that the media and society cause women to obsess over the numbers on the bathroom scale and subsequently abuse their bodies and minds. In the first part of her book, she covers eating disorders, dysfunctional eating, and rising weights and size prejudice. True stories of women fatally dieting to fit into smaller wedding gowns and avoiding medical checkups so that they won't have to be weighed or ridiculed by their doctors help illustrate the problems. Berg devotes the second half of her book to suggestions on how women can be healthy no matter what their weight. Throughout, she backs up her observations with research and statistics. More than just your typical "how-to-love-your-weight" book, this guide explains why women are so obsessed with their weight and calls for a change in the way overweight women are treated by society. Recommended for libraries serving consumers, educators, and health professionals.--Samantha J. Gust, Niagara Univ. Lib., NY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
Foreword | |
Introduction | p. 13 |
Part I Today's weight-obsessed world | |
1 Fear of food, fear of fat | p. 15 |
2 Our culture fails to nurture women | p. 31 |
3 Dysfunctional eating disrupts normal life | p. 51 |
4 Eating disorders shatter women's lives | p. 71 |
5 Weights continue to rise | p. 95 |
6 Prejudice punishes large women | p. 111 |
7 Living in starvation mode | p. 129 |
8 The risks of losing weight | p. 147 |
9 Food and activity choices intensify problems | p. 169 |
10 How the diet industry exerts control | p. 193 |
Part II Breaking free, living free | |
11 Health at any size | p. 213 |
12 It's about you | p. 227 |
13 The joy of active living | p. 245 |
14 Eating well | p. 265 |
15 Celebrating size diversity | p. 283 |
16 Creating a more nurturing culture | p. 301 |
17 Prevention and treatment | p. 315 |
18 Call to action | p. 331 |
Appendix | p. 337 |
Body mass index chart | |
Questionnaires | |
Statistics and information | |
Resources | |
References | p. 353 |
Index | p. 369 |