This web page highlights selected writing by Dr. Lindo Bacon relevant to people working within the fitness field. To find much more extensive writing on these topics and more, visit the topics resources page and read Lindo’s books.
Featured Writing
- A Message for Fitness Professionals Change the paradigm. You can better support your clients by abandoning weight loss goals. It is possible to be both fat and fit.
- 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.
Weight Science
- 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.
- Stress Mess: How "Fighting Fat" Makes People Sick Public health interventions promoting weight-loss fail to account for "social determinants" such as socioeconomic status and are not scientifically sound. The stress resulting from stigmatization in the name of health causes ill health.
Supportive Information
- Health at Every Size Book Introduction This will inspire you. You can live in a body you love and eating can be fun and effortless... much more fun and effective than dieting! Welcome to Health at Every Size.
- Orthopedic surgeons: helping patients with joint problems Joint pain? Prescribed movement is more effective medical care than prescribed weight loss for ALL people with orthopedic concerns.
- Foreward to Yoga XXL by Ingrid Kollak In this foreward to Ingrid Kollak's Yoga XXL: A Journey to Health for Bigger People, Dr. Linda Bacon shows that size is no barrier to enjoying great health and satisfying physical activity.
University of California Podcasts
- UC Davis Nutritionist (Linda Bacon) Advises: Save Your Money on Diet Books This podcast challenges the assumptions that diet and physical activity lead to long-term weight loss and suggests a focus on intuitive eating, enjoyable movement, and other self-care.
- Why Diets Don't Work Podcast This University of California podcast covers the facts that dieting does not lead to sustained weight loss, increased weight is not a primary driver of disease, and the weight-centered approach to health causes physical and psychological harm.