Health at Every Size® Research
What is Health at Every Size® (HAES)?
"We’ve lost the war on obesity. Fighting fat hasn’t made the fat go away. And being thinner, even if we knew how to successfully accomplish it, will not necessarily make us healthier or happier. The war on obesity has taken its toll.
Extensive “collateral damage” has resulted: Food and body preoccupation, self-hatred, eating disorders, discrimination,
poor health, etc. Few of us are at peace with our bodies, whether because we’re fat or because we fear becoming fat.
Health at Every Size® is the new peace movement.
It supports people of all sizes in addressing health directly by adopting healthy behaviors. It is an inclusive movement, recognizing that our social characteristics, such as our size, race, national origin, sexuality, gender, disability status, and other attributes, are assets, and acknowledges and challenges the structural and systemic forces that impinge on living well".
Excerpt from Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Lindo Bacon.
We, at Current Wellness, support HAES and utilize its principles in our programming. Click here to learn more about what we believe in and click here to contact us for a free wellness consultation.
Research Related to Health at Every Size®:
Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shift
How and why weight stigma drives the obesity ‘epidemic’ and harms health
Medicare's search for effective obesity treatments: Diets are not the answer.
The spectrum of eating disturbances
Calorie counting and fitness tracking technology: Associations with eating disorder symptomatology