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Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is

By Lindo Bacon, Amee Severson — 2019

“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness.

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Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl’s Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

Twenty-nine year-old plus-size blogger Stephanie Yeboah has experienced racism and fat-phobia throughout her life.

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Stephanie Yeboah
2020
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My Unhealthy Obsession With Getting Thin

As Evelyn started to grow up and become a teenager, she looked around at her friends and started to notice differences in the way she looked.

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2019
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Being in Your Body: A Journal for Self-Love and Body Positivity

What would life be like without the negativity surrounding our bodies? Body shame, reinforced by socially entrenched beauty norms and intensified by social media, is incredibly difficult to shake.

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Fariha Róisín
2025
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Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body

From the leading bloggers in the fat-acceptance movement comes an empowering guide to body image—no matter what the scales say. When it comes to body image, women can be their own worst enemies, aided and abetted by society and the media.

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Kate Harding, Marianne Kirby
2009
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The Balance Within: The Science Connecting Health and Emotions

A thrilling scientific detective story, The Balance Within tells how researchers finally uncovered the elusive mind-body connection and what it means for our health.

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Esther M. Sternberg
1997
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Straight/Curve: Redefining Body Image

Straight/Curve examines the industries and obstacles responsible for our current body image crisis and showcases the dynamic leaders fighting for more diversity of size, race and age.

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2017
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Embrace: The Documentary

Embrace follows body image activist Taryn Brumfitt's crusade as she explores the global issue of body loathing, inspiring us to change the way we feel about ourselves and think about our bodies.

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2016
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52 Ways to Love Your Body

Do you look in the mirror and see all the things you dislike about your body? For many of us, the first step to loving our bodies is being able to look at our reflection and not criticize what we see.

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Kimber Simpkins
2016
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Exhale: 40 Breathwork Exercises to Help You Find Your Calm, Supercharge Your Health, and Perform at Your Best

More than forty simple breathing exercises to help you transform your physical and mental health and improve performance and emotional well-being. We take between seventeen to twenty-nine thousand breaths per day.

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Richie Bostock
2020
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Busting Myths on Weight and Health

In this video, Dr. Linda Bacon delves into the research and comes up with some surprising results. When you suspend your preconceptions about weight, a very different picture emerges, one where it is the machinery of weight stigma that needs dismantling.

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Lindo Bacon
2017
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