Body of Truth How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weightand What We Can Do about It

Body of Truth How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weightand What We Can Do about It

Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, "I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat.&qu......
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Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, "I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat." How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is "fat"? Where women and girls (and increasingly men and boys) will diet, purge, overeat, undereat, and berate themselves and others, all in the name of being thin?As a science journalist, Harriet Brown has explored this collective longing and fixation from an objective perspective as a mother, wife, and woman with "weight issues," she has struggled to understand it on a personal level. Now, in Body of Truth , Brown systematically unpacks what''s been offered as "truth" about weight and health.Starting with the four biggest lies, Brown shows how research has been manipulated how the medical profession is
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Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, "I called you crazy.I called you a bitch. But I never called you fat." How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is "fat"? Where women and girls (and increasingly men and boys) will diet, purge, overeat, undereat, and berate themselves and others, all in the name of being thin?As a science journalist, Harriet Brown has explored this collective longing and fixation from an objective perspective as a mother, wife, and woman with "weight issues," she has struggled to understand it on a personal level. Now, in Body of Truth , Brown systematically unpacks what's been offered as "truth" about weight and health.Starting with the four biggest lies, Brown shows how research has been manipulated how the medical profession is complicit in keeping us in the dark how big pharma and big, empty promises equal big, big dollars how much of what we know (or think we know) about health and weight is wrong.And how all of those affect all of us every day, whether we know it or not.The quest for health and wellness has never been more urgent, yet most of us continue to buy into fad diets and unattainable body ideals, unaware of the damage we're doing to ourselves. Through interviews, research, and her own

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Utforsk Body of Truth: En måte å forstå vår vektobsessjon

I over tjuefem år har jakten på tynnhet utviklet seg til en besettelse av vekt og kroppsbilde. I dagens samfunn har ordet "fet" blitt nærmest en forbannelse. Men hvordan havnet vi her? I Body of Truth av Harriet Brown, dykker vi dypt inn i dette kontroversielle emnet, som berører både menn og kvinner i alle aldre.

De fire største løgnene om vekt og helse

  • Manipulert forskning: Brown avdekker hvordan vitenskapelige studier ofte blir forvrengt for å passe inn i samfunnets idealer.
  • Medisinsk medvirkning: Hvordan helsevesenet kanskje ikke alltid har vår beste interesse i tankene når det kommer til vekttap.
  • Pharma-gigantenes spill: Store salgstall for medisiner som lover rask vekttap kan føre til skuffelse og skade.
  • Feilinformasjon: Mye av det vi "vet" om helse og vekt er faktisk på feil spor.

Hva kan vi gjøre med vår vektobsessjon?

Med Body of Truth får du ikke bare fakta, men også et klart bilde av hvordan kulturen vår har formet våre oppfatninger av kropp og helse. Gjennom personlige historier, intervjuer, og forskning, gir Harriet Brown oss redskaper til å utfordre de usunne idealene som omgir oss.

En viktig reise mot forståelse

Brown setter fokus på hvordan vi kan slippe taket i denne skadelige syklusen. Ved å forstå de underliggende faktorene i vårt forhold til vekt, kan vi gjøre informerte valg som fremmer ekte helse og velvære.

Hvorfor velge Body of Truth?

Dette er ikke bare en bok; det er en samtale som inviterer oss til å revurdere hvordan vi ser på vår egen kropp. La Body of Truth være din ledsager i søken etter en sunnere, mer realistisk oppfatning av deg selv og din helse.

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