Has Anybody Here Heard Of Dr. Linda Bacon's Research and HAES (overweight, doctor)

[MikeSneedman]

She is leading the way trying to get people to STOP dieting and just live our lives playfully by honoring our bodies.

[Kings Gambit]

Originally Posted by MikeSneedman

She is leading the way trying to get people to STOP dieting and just live our lives playfully by honoring our bodies.

She sounds both stupid and fat. The best way to honor our bodies is to take care of it by fueling it properly and doing whatever we can to improve its function and performance. Our bodies are the vehicles/vessels that we are given while we are here on this plane, it is our responsibility to 'honor" it by making sure we take as good care of it as possible.

You wouldn't drive your car around with the "CHECK ENGINE" light on. You wouldn't put regular unleaded in it when it clearly says to use PREMIUM only. Its the same with out bodies. This whole "love and accept your body" b.s. that a lot of lazy fat people talk about is absolutely ridiculous. Its just them making excuses for their laziness to do what needs to be done to lose weight.

While I am not a "dieter" (I prefer to eat proper nutrition plan) there are people who NEED to diet in order to prevent heart disease, diabetes, or worst and early DEATH that would leave their kids parentless.

Also, not going to google this Bacon lady either because from what you say, it sounds like she is just propagating the whole "Im a loser, so I'll just accept it" mentality that so many lazy people spout.

You know how my yoga teachers honor their bodies? They are either vegitarians or they eat strictly paleo nutrition lifestyle and they exercise.

You know how my internal martial arts instructors honor their bodies? By eating only health foods and well rounded nutrition plans and they exercise. They aren't "well Im fat, my mother was fat, her mother was fat, so Im always going to be this way so I think Im just going to enjoy my sweet tea, fatty food, breads, cakes and desserts and be happy....".

[Market Junkie]

Well said, Kings

The astounding number of overweight and obese people in this country is a national disgrace, in my view...

[Larry Cook]

Kings Gambit, i agree with what you wrote except that by not googling Linda Bacon you are allowing yourself to make an assumption and dismiss her as simply someone who is "just propagating...". Well, she is far more dangerous than that. I just read an article co-written by her in which she makes up facts in order to support her premise, she makes lame arguments about the causes of diseases like diabetes that she pretends overturn the research concerning the obesity-diabetes link and then moves on to make ten more pages of points with that as her foundation argument. she is a doctor for pete's sake. She has to know that only controlled scientific studies can change the facts as understood from previous scientific research, but she writes as if a few sentences of her faulty "logic" is enough to contradict and thus refute all scientific studies regarding obesity. Women love her and she is dangerous. I wish that logical people like you would take the time to put down people like Linda Bacon. If enough do it, she could be exposed, at least to some people, as what she really is. But fat women love anyone, especially a doctor, who tells them it's okay to be fat.