This web page provides links to writings by Lindo Bacon to help educate parents, teachers and school administrators. Visit the topics resources page or read Lindo’s books for more comprehensive writing.
Featured Resources
- A Message for School Administrators and Teachers Anti-obesity campaigns, including BMI "report-cards," are damaging and ineffective. Learn how to best inspire good health habits for your students.
- A Message for Legislators/Politicians on Obesity Treatment and Prevention Policies Change the paradigm: Make health promotion your platform. Obesity treatment and prevention messaging is harmful.
- The HAES Manifesto The Health at Every Size Manifesto, reproduced from Linda's groundbreaking book. Summarizes hot topics and the need for a paradigm shift. A must-have for everyone's library.
- Bacon, L., & Aphramor, L. Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift This is the premiere article that has up-ended thinking about weight. Includes all the arguments that support a paradigm shift, meticulously referenced. In academic voice.
- The HAES Files: Honey, I Can't Shrink the Kids - Why the Obamas Need a New Doctor Michelle Obama: I'm with you in wanting to improve the health of children in the U.S. through improved nutrition and physical activity, but let's not do it on the backs of the fat kids or with misguided measures like BMI.
- THE CAUSE OF EATING DISORDERS, AND WHEN A DIET IS AN EATING DISORDER – AN INTERVIEW WITH LINDA BACON, PHD This short interview supports parents whose kids struggle in lightening up on themselves and supporting their kids in abandoning diets.