About

Dr. Lindo Bacon is fostering a global transformation to a more just world, where all bodies are valued, respected, and supported in compassionate self-care. Best known for their paradigm-shifting research and advocacy upending the weight discourse, Bacon’s inspiring message takes us beyond size, to shaping a culture of empathy, equity and true belonging. Dr. Bacon has mined their deep academic proficiency, wide-ranging clinical expertise and own personal experience to write two best-selling books, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight, and the 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 the weight discourse and inspiring a hopeful new course for the global body positivity movement. Bacon’s new highly acclaimed manifesto, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better), is an Amazon #1 New Release.

Bacon earned their PhD in physiology from the University of California, Davis, where they served as an Associate Nutritionist for almost two decades. They also hold graduate degrees in psychology and exercise metabolism. Dr. Bacon formerly taught at City College of San Francisco, in the Health Education, Psychology, Women’s Studies, and Biology Departments. A professor and researcher, for almost two decades Dr. Bacon has taught courses in social justice, health, weight and nutrition; they have also 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. Their pledge not to accept money from the weight loss, pharmaceutical or food industry, signed when getting a PhD in 2001, supports them in speaking truth to power.

Well-respected for their provocative social and political commentary, Dr. Bacon’s advocacy for body respect has generated a large following on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, health and nutrition listservs and specialty blogs, and the international lecture circuit. They are committed to centralizing the ways in which power, privilege and disadvantage complicate our experience of our bodies. With a rare dual perspective combining academic expertise and clinical experience, Bacon is adept at providing a link between scientific research and practical application. This enables them to bring authority and compassion to their writing, speaking and teaching. Their personal difficulties with weight regulation and an eating disorder as well as experience in overcoming them provide important perspective and inspiration for their work. Dr. Bacon specializes in translating science into practical, actionable terms.

Health professionals – as well as people on their own personal journeys to body appreciation – call Lindo’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 a raw honesty and compassion that touch and inspire.