Fat And Unhappy: How "Body Positivity" Is Killing Us (and How to Save Yourself)

More than seventy years after Americans dutifully embraced the low-fat diet in an era of industrialized food, a nation left fat, sick, and depressed three generations later are now desperately looking for answers to combat the twin epidemics of obesity and chronic disease. The contemporary phenomenon to promote "body positivity" under the banner of "health at every size," however, is another corporate-sponsored movement to accept obesity and chronic illness as the new norm while fundamentally transforming our healthcare system into a sick care system. Big Food and Big Pharma have accomplished what Big Tobacco tried but failed: hook generations of consumers on biochemically addictive products and discredit the consequences. Everybody knows smoking kills. Few understand that cereal will too. The modern message of "body positivity" is an emotionally tempting doctrine to a public rightly frustrated by the guidance of the so-called "experts," but in reality, it remains a trojan horse for the food and medical industries to prey on the physical insecurities and emotional turbulence of lifelong customers. "Obesity and chronic disease are destroying the country! The healthy at any size/body positivity movements are manufactured by industry to support continued corporate profiteering off of our profoundly sick society! Tristan Justice and Gina Bontempo's new book on the topic reveal this in gritty detail. It is an eye opening and enjoyable read that should be shared widely!" —Dr. Shawn Baker "In Fat and Unhappy, Tristan Justice and Gina Bontempo do an outstanding job of discussing the motivations behind the 'Healthy at Any Size' movement. They expose the significant risks to individuals who follow this movement and highlight the extreme cost to society in treating obesity-related…