About
Lindo Bacon, PhD
formerly LindaBackground Highlights
Dr. Lindo Bacon is well-known for mining their deep academic proficiency, diverse clinical expertise, and personal experiences to author Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight. They also co-authored Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, or Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight. Both are credited with transforming weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the global body positivity movement. Dr. Bacon’s newest highly acclaimed manifesto, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better), debuted to much acclaim as an Amazon #1 New Release.
Dr. Bacon earned a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of California, Davis, where they served an honorary appointment as an Associate Nutritionist. They also hold graduate degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism and for almost two decades taught courses in health education, psychology, women’s studies, and nutrition at City College of San Francisco, a community college dedicated to making quality education accessible.
Dr. Bacon conducted federally funded studies on health and weight and published in top scientific journals. Their research has been supported by grants from the United States Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health. Bacon is industry-independent. They pledged not to accept money from the weight loss, pharmaceutical or food industry while earning their doctorate in 2001, supporting their career in speaking truth to power.
Dr. Bacon is committed to centralizing the ways power, privilege, and disadvantage complicate our experience of our bodies. With a dual perspective that combines academic expertise and clinical experience, Dr. Bacon specializes in translating science into practical, actionable terms. Their personal experiences provide important perspective and inspiration for their work.
Health professionals and people on personal journeys to body appreciation call Dr. Bacon’s work “life-changing” and “transformative.” A compelling speaker, writer, and storyteller, Dr. Bacon delivers a unique blend of academic expertise, clinical experience, and social justice advocacy, all couched in raw honesty and compassion that touch and inspire.
A Closer Look
Linda to Lindo
“I was never a girl. I was never Linda, not really. But Lindo? Lindo, I recognize. This new name feels like home to me.” – Dr. Lindo Bacon
Read MoreWeight Story
Dr. Bacon’s pain and weight obsession made them determined to understand everything about weight regulation. Research led the way to relief from their preoccupation—and a new mindset on compassionate self-care.
Read MoreA Shift in Focus
Dr. Bacon’s perspectives on leaving behind the study of weight science and the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement to focus more closely on healing from trauma and creating a culture of belonging.
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