Posts Tagged: Linda Bacon

Smash Your Bathroom Scale

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As mentioned in the last post, I’m working on a completely rewritten version of Diet Recovery.  We haven’t finalized a book cover yet.  We’ve only done a few mockups.  But Rob and I were thinking that it might be fun for you guys to submit some cover images in an informal contest.  One image that we’ve been looking at doing some mockups with is an image of a smashed bathroom scale – or scale in the act of being smashed.  I know many of you have bathroom scales that have done you wrong, but are still sitting in your house somewhere unpunished.  This might be a fun way for you to commemorate some of the 180D-inspired breakthroughs you’ve experienced, and your fiet-ducking success.  If you are feeling an overwhelming bout of Michael Bolton rage… Read more »

How Dieting Causes Metabolic Syndrome

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With quotes from Health at Every Size by Linda Bacon… “… extensive evidence documents that attempts at dieting typically result in weight cycling, not maintained weight loss.  Weight fluctuation is strongly associated with increased risk for diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, independent of body weight.  In other words, the recommendation to diet may be causing the very diseases it is purported to prevent!”  It’s a topic I’ve written about before in posts on Hypertension and How Calorie Restriction Causes Weight Gain, but I figured it was a good time to revisit the general concept.  I have been thinking a lot about sustainability lately.  Not sustainability in the “pee three times before you flush” or the “let’s build a compost toilet” kind of way, but the importance of sustainability in your… Read more »

Happiness and Weight Loss

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By Julia Gumm I was in a wedding once. The bride was a pushy sort, not exactly a “bridezilla”, but she wanted all the details of her special day to be in order as soon as possible. Among other things, that meant that I had to be fitted for my bridesmaid’s dress about a year before the ceremony. Now, I’m not one of those people who walks the earth taking up the same precise amount of space from season to season, year to year, know what I mean? The bride, knowing this as well as I did, hissed at me between gritted teeth “Now don’t you go losing a bunch of weight or something!” Well, when the anticipated date arrived, I found that there was a lot more dress to… Read more »

Intestinal Bacteria and Obesity

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Before we jump into a very fascinating topic, I must first mention that my latest bestselling book (#1 of 22,000 listings in Nutrition on Amazon), Eat for Heat: The Metabolic Approach to Food and Drink, is currently available at a heavily-discounted price.  If you haven’t had the chance to read it yet, now’s the time to get it – and tell your friends about it too.  Buying it, pressing the “like” button, and writing a short 1-paragraph review while you’re there would be a big help in moving it ahead of all the constipation-inducing, sex-drive killing, and otherwise metabolically-suppressive diet books currently ranked above it.  If you’ve already purchased it, consider giving a 99-cent “donation” by scooping it up on Amazon, or buying it for a friend or family member perhaps. … Read more »

Lose Weight and Get Healthy!

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Seen the phrases “lose weight” and “get healthy” paired together before?  Me too.  At least a “Jillian” times.  Our entire society has come to equate losing weight with an improvement in health.  Funny thing that weight loss stuff though.  Not everybody gets healthier when they lose weight.  In fact, by percentages, most people get more UNhealthy when they lose weight.  A more appropriate phrase pairing might be…. “Lose weight and Lose health!” So why does everyone think weight loss is such a great thing?  Why does just about every doctor in America think that if his/her patients lose weight, their health will dramatically improve?  The answer is really simple actually… Weight loss causes a lot of temporary improvements in the biomarkers for things like heart disease and diabetes.  Emphasis on… Read more »

How to Feed Your Kids

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“Duke University psychologist Philip Costanzo, Ph.D., found that excess weight in school-age children was highly associated with the degree to which parents tried to restrain their children’s eating. Even well-meaning parents interfere with intuitive eating. When a parent tries to overrule a child’s natural eating cues, the problem gets worse, not better.” -Evelyn Tribole; Intuitive Eating “Research indicates that parents who restrict access to certain foods are actually more likely to have heavier kids! This fact makes sense: The kids lose their ability to self-regulate as a result of parents’ interference. Promising a child dessert if she eats her vegetables or encouraging a child to clean his plate can also contribute to developing unhealthy eating practices.” -Linda Bacon; Health at Every Size My goal in this post, first and foremost,… Read more »

Weight Fixation: "Waist" of Time

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“The cruel irony is that although we become totally obsessed with the daily measures of how ‘good’ or ‘bad’ we are (refused dessert = good; didn’t have time to go to the gym = bad), there is no finish line.  This weight preoccupation will never lead us anywhere.  It is a maniacal maze that always spits you out at the same point it sucked you up:  wanting.  We keep chasing after perfection as if it is an achievable goal, when really it is the most grand and painful of all mirages.” “Spontaneity is crucial to health.  Listening to when your body is hungry, and for what, is a mindful act anathema to most young women.  In fact, the majority of those I interviewed for this book don’t even know how to… Read more »