This web page provides links to writing by Dr. Lindo Bacon to help educate politicians and policymakers. Visit the topics resources page or read Lindo’s books for more comprehensive writing.
Featured Resources
- 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.
- "Everyone Knows Obesity is Hurting Us," But is the Fight Against Obesity the Problem? Tune out the loud "everyone knows" claims about obesity, shape and diet and challenge the health "experts". It's our obsession over body fat that s a costly, crippling threat to health and well-being.
- The Contrarian Voice: Health at Any Size: Why Diets are Harmful and Counterproductive Research refutes conventional views on weight and the value of prescriptions for dieting/weight loss; focus should be on health behaviors, not physical attributes.
- Bacon's Testimony in Massachusetts' anti-discrimination law Bacon's testimony in support of adding weight as a protected category in Massachusetts' anti-discrimination law.
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Comments Provided on Wellness Programs Evidence in support of ending weight discrimination in the workplace.