Redefining Obesity

Health At Every Size (HAES)

The Health at Every Size Movement (HAES) was developed as an alternative to the numbers-focused model of modern medicine.

 

The tenets of HAES (from ) are:

 

• Accepting and respecting the natural diversity of body sizes and shapes.

• Eating in a flexible manner that values pleasure and honors internal cues of hunger, satiety, and appetite.

• Finding the joy in moving one’s body and becoming more physically vital.

 

HAES works hand in hand with the "fat acceptance" movement to oppose weight discrimination and stigma.

 

Main criticisms of HAES center around the underlying assertion that there is nothing, specifically, wrong with obesity.

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Resources

• Why Diets are Harmful and Counterproductive - Linda Bacon

• Is the fat acceptance movement bad for our health? - Tammy Worth (CNN)

• Health at Every Size: The Suprising Truth About Your Weight - Linda Bacon

• Health At Every Size: choice or coercion - The Fat Nutritionist

• What is Health at Every Size? - Deah Schwartz (NEDA)

• Why HAES May Never go Mainstream - Yoni Freedhoff (Weighty Matters)