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YOU JUST NEED TO LOSE WEIGHT - AUBREY GORDON TA...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN INDIE BESTSELLEROne of the great thinkers of our generation . . .
I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil  iWeigh
PodcastThe co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you
with the facts to debunk common anti-fat myths and with tools to take action for fat justiceThe
pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form.
Losing weight is easy—calories in  calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We’re in the midst
of an obesity epidemic. Fat acceptance glorifies obesity.” The BMI is an objective measure of
size and health. Yet  these myths are as readily debunked as they are pervasive.In You Just
Need to Lose Weight ” Aubrey Gordon equips readers with the facts and figures to reframe myths
about fatness in order to dismantle the anti-fat bias ingrained in how we think about and treat
fat people. Bringing her dozen years of community organizing and training to bear  Gordon
shares the rhetorical approaches she and other organizers employ to not only counter these
pernicious myths  but to dismantle the anti-fat bias that so often underpin them.As
conversations about fat acceptance and fat justice continue to grow  You Just Need to Lose
Weight” will be essential to ensure that those conversations are informed  effective  and
grounded in both research and history.

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