From Weight to What Matters

Health at Every Size is not a weight-loss book. It’s not a diet book. It’s not an exercise program. Health at Every Size is a book about healthy living, one designed to support you as you shift your focus from hating yourself and fighting your body to learning to appreciate yourself, your body, and your life. It’s a book designed to help you break free of the weight-loss mentality and embrace the health-and-happiness mentality. Because really, what’s beneath your weight-loss quest? Isn’t your ultimate goal to feel better about yourself and to feel love, acceptance, vitality, or good health?

That’s the Health at Every Size promise. You can feel better about yourself. You can feel loved, accepted, and vital—and you can improve your health—regardless of whether you lose weight.

Health at Every Size is not speculation or unproven theory. It’s based on a scientifically tested program. The program was evaluated through a government-funded academic study, its data was published in well-respected scientific journals.It showed that the program can give you what you want. Even the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) touts the Health at Every Size program as the “new hope” for people struggling with their weight. Explore Health at Every Size with downloadable excerpts, support materials and more.

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If you have ever been on a diet, you have successfully and thoroughly tested the many, endlessly appearing weight-loss programs. They have failed us. We did what they said. Each and every program fails almost every one of us—they were not capable of delivering on their promise. Dr. Linda Bacon delivers! With solid, clearly explained research, she tells us what works, over a lifetime, is reasonable and doable. Health at Every Size is a MUST-READ for each and every person who has ever wanted a different body!
BONNIE BERNELL, EDD psychologist, author of Bountiful Women: Large Women’s Secrets for Living the Life They Desire
Dr. Bacon has amazing evidence and shares it with you: Feeding yourself well and trusting your body works better—lots better—than starving yourself and trying to force your weight down. If you are caught in a struggle with your weight, this book shows you the way out.
ELLYN SATTER, MS, RD, LCSW, BCD therapist, author of several books, including Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family: Orchestrating and Enjoying the Family Meal and Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming
A compassionate yet critical look at how the converging forces of science, economics, and culture drive the weight-loss industry and ultimately undermine the very goal an individual seeks—physical and emotional health. Written by a scientist who has been in the trenches as a dieter struggling through the weight-loss gauntlet. Here’s a solution to help you off the dieting treadmill with your sanity intact.
EVELYN TRIBOLE, MS, RD nutrition therapist, author of several books, including Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works and Stealth Health: How to Sneak Nutrition Painlessly into Your Diet
Free at last! Here’s liberation from the tyranny of useless weight-loss regimens and the feelings of failure they provoke. Linda Bacon offers a welcome, practical alternative to obsessing about your weight and shape—eating and exercising according to your body’s built-in wisdom. She shows you how to enjoy sound health and unstoppable self-esteem whatever size your body may be. If you’re ready to escape from self-loathing and discover the pleasures of self-affirmation, toss out those diet books and dump the bathroom scale. Treat yourself to this sane and friendly guide, scientifically proven to help you make peace with your body, improve your health, and nourish all of who you are.
LISA SARASOHN bodywork and yoga therapist, author of The Woman’s Belly Book: Finding Your True Center for More Energy, Confidence, and Pleasure
Linda Bacon deftly exposes the $50 billion lie of the diet industry. In plain language, she describes the indisputable science behind why millions of Americans’ failed attempts to lose weight is hardly the result of personal failing, and how if we’d just get out of the way, our bodies already know how to be healthy. Indeed, the nation’s collective obsession with the alleged ‘obesity epidemic’ (another myth Bacon convincingly debunks) is only distracting us from facing the true menace—an industrialized food system driven solely by profit motive. Anyone who has suffered through endless weight-loss programs should read this book and follow Bacon’s simple, commonsense guide to better health, improved self-esteem, and the enjoyment of real food as a source of nourishment.
MICHELE SIMON, JD, MPH public health attorney, author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back
Linda Bacon’s book is a major contribution to the health-at-every-size movement. Any person contemplating going on a diet to lose weight should read this book first. Every health professional who counsels people about weight control should absolutely read this book, read it again, and make sure [his or her] clients read it. It’s a dogma-busting book that provides a sensible alternative to mainstream fairytales of easily attainable weight loss for all, and offers reassurance to all those who have struggled with their weight that the road to a fitter and healthier body is wide enough for everyone.
GLENN GAESSER, PHD researcher/professor, Arizona State University, author of Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
There are thousands of self-help books directed at plus-sized people, who make up two-thirds of humanity. Nearly every one of these books promises to trim away your body fat, and as a result improve your health and life satisfaction. Every one of these books is a sham. Health at Every Size differs from all the rest because it offers a new road to travel, one that will lead you to better health and a better life. This revolutionary book is based on a solid foundation of biomedical research. The book is true to the real science, not the press releases from diet promoters that pass for health news today. Readers will achieve a new understanding of how their bodies really work and how to work with your body and not against it to achieve better balance in life.
PAUL ERNSBERGER, PHD researcher/professor, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine
Outstanding! Dr. Bacon offers a compelling and comprehensive understanding of why we are the weight we are and how to maximize our physical and emotional well-being. Based on solid scientific research, Bacon provides us with new concepts that will forever change the way we think about hunger, nourishment, and weight regulation
JUDITH MATZ AND ELLEN FRANKEL psychotherapists, authors of The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance and Self-Care and Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Therapist’s Guide to Treating Compulsive Eating
Health at Every Size is a must-read for both the chronic and the occasional dieter, as well as for health care professionals who readily give advice about weight loss, but know little about the actual impact of dieting on metabolism, weight, and health. Bacon challenges the false promises of the weight-loss industry and translates the science underlying the health-at-every-size movement into practical, easily digestible truths. From the politics of fat and food, to the facts about the human body’s instinctive response to starvation, this timely resource helps readers understand how to heal their relationship to food and to their bodies, and to commit to good health instead of wasting time and energy dieting.”
MARGO MAINE, PHD, FAED, psychologist, coauthor of several books, including The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect and Body Wars: Making Peace with Women’s Bodies