you cannot be healthy at every size. that statement is akin to being healthy while being a smoker, alcoholic or drug addict. Sure you might not have cancer or overdosed yet but it doesn't mean you aren't harming yourself.
Principle 1: Bodies naturally come in different shapes and sizes, and there’s nothing healthy about idealizing a specific shape or weight. Principle 2: Optimizing access to all aspects of health, not just focusing on weight. Principle 3: Eating for well-being-recognizing differing nutritional needs, rejecting diet mentality, honoring hunger and fullness. “Intuitive eating”. Principle 4: Respectful care, challenging the focus on weight Principle 5: Healthy movement
So in other words HAES really does not acknowledge the possibility of weight being a contributing factor to illness? Does it recognize at any level overeating as a health problem, or the overconsumption of certain foods as being harmful to the body? Or does it simply tiptoe around such issues in order not to cause shame?
I think this question misses the bigger focus. The right research can make anything a correlate, but correlation does not equal causation. Instead, HAES looks at more comprehensive research that shows it’s not actually the state of our bodies that contributes to all the health concerns, but how we behave. Are you eating a varied diet with fruits, vegetables, fibre, protein and fat? Are you moving your body regularly and working your cardiovascular system? Are you getting adequate sleep? Are you attending to your mental health? If you answer yes to all those things you’re more likely to have better health outcomes, regardless of your body weight. We need to look at the real issue - lifestyle.
Obviously weight is only one of many factors represented by lifestyle, and I wholeheartedly agree that everything should be taken into consideration. But that’s not really the insinuation of HAES. I just finished reading the Intuitive Eating book and I found some really great principles in it. I also found myself frustrated by the studious avoidance of the very real issues I mentioned above-and your answer is more of the same. There’s a strong message in the book that self-discipline is bad. The book even states that “weight stigma” leads to a host of illnesses that science tells us are increased by excess weight. There’s a difference between acknowledging the natural differences in bodies without suggesting that there’s no problem with morbid obesity, which is really promoted by the body positivity movement. You can promote the wholistic things you mentioned without pussy-footing around the harm done to our bodies by over-indulging on harmful foods and carrying excess weight. The “correlation doesn’t equal causation” is simply a caveat that ignores decades of evidence of the harms of obesity, down to the molecular level.
I’m a naturally medium/slim, active person who put on weight over the past year due to stress and depression and coping with food. I read the IE book hoping for something helpful, but the message I’ve come away with is essentially not to try to have self-discipline, not to “over-exercise”, to eat what I want, when I want, as much as I want, and to accept whatever size I end up. I can see how someone who is already large would find solace in this, but if I adopted these philosophies, I’d be a mess. I find it rather disturbing.
@@AlinaTowersit's very frustrating to look into things like this, because they blur the line between sensible idea and theory, and complete bullshit set to cater to people who want everything to feel good and be super kind and sensitive to them, they need a trophy for last place kind of thing, sadly it's what some people need so im glad there's something there for them, and maybe it slowly shifts them into the right direction, but for most sensible people who just want the facts and truth and no bullshit or fluff, you have to filter and sift through a lot of bullshit "safe space" talk to kind of hear the valuable principles underneath which I admit are certainly there
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you cannot be healthy at every size. that statement is akin to being healthy while being a smoker, alcoholic or drug addict. Sure you might not have cancer or overdosed yet but it doesn't mean you aren't harming yourself.
Have you tried a keto or carnivore diet for weight loss? Many people have had success with this approach.
@@boom78 sorry Boom, we don’t follow fad diets here.
Lose weight 😅😂@ParallelWellness
Principle 1: Bodies naturally come in different shapes and sizes, and there’s nothing healthy about idealizing a specific shape or weight.
Principle 2: Optimizing access to all aspects of health, not just focusing on weight.
Principle 3: Eating for well-being-recognizing differing nutritional needs, rejecting diet mentality, honoring hunger and fullness. “Intuitive eating”.
Principle 4: Respectful care, challenging the focus on weight
Principle 5: Healthy movement
Word salad. Tighten up!
So in other words HAES really does not acknowledge the possibility of weight being a contributing factor to illness? Does it recognize at any level overeating as a health problem, or the overconsumption of certain foods as being harmful to the body? Or does it simply tiptoe around such issues in order not to cause shame?
I think this question misses the bigger focus. The right research can make anything a correlate, but correlation does not equal causation. Instead, HAES looks at more comprehensive research that shows it’s not actually the state of our bodies that contributes to all the health concerns, but how we behave. Are you eating a varied diet with fruits, vegetables, fibre, protein and fat? Are you moving your body regularly and working your cardiovascular system? Are you getting adequate sleep? Are you attending to your mental health? If you answer yes to all those things you’re more likely to have better health outcomes, regardless of your body weight. We need to look at the real issue - lifestyle.
Obviously weight is only one of many factors represented by lifestyle, and I wholeheartedly agree that everything should be taken into consideration. But that’s not really the insinuation of HAES. I just finished reading the Intuitive Eating book and I found some really great principles in it. I also found myself frustrated by the studious avoidance of the very real issues I mentioned above-and your answer is more of the same. There’s a strong message in the book that self-discipline is bad. The book even states that “weight stigma” leads to a host of illnesses that science tells us are increased by excess weight. There’s a difference between acknowledging the natural differences in bodies without suggesting that there’s no problem with morbid obesity, which is really promoted by the body positivity movement. You can promote the wholistic things you mentioned without pussy-footing around the harm done to our bodies by over-indulging on harmful foods and carrying excess weight. The “correlation doesn’t equal causation” is simply a caveat that ignores decades of evidence of the harms of obesity, down to the molecular level.
I’m a naturally medium/slim, active person who put on weight over the past year due to stress and depression and coping with food. I read the IE book hoping for something helpful, but the message I’ve come away with is essentially not to try to have self-discipline, not to “over-exercise”, to eat what I want, when I want, as much as I want, and to accept whatever size I end up. I can see how someone who is already large would find solace in this, but if I adopted these philosophies, I’d be a mess. I find it rather disturbing.
@@AlinaTowersit's very frustrating to look into things like this, because they blur the line between sensible idea and theory, and complete bullshit set to cater to people who want everything to feel good and be super kind and sensitive to them, they need a trophy for last place kind of thing, sadly it's what some people need so im glad there's something there for them, and maybe it slowly shifts them into the right direction, but for most sensible people who just want the facts and truth and no bullshit or fluff, you have to filter and sift through a lot of bullshit "safe space" talk to kind of hear the valuable principles underneath which I admit are certainly there