The message of this book is perennially important, but we hope that now, at a time of year when diet culture, fat bias, and a lack of self-compassion tend to trickle through our mental floodgates, it will act as a form of resistance to the very systems that created these cultural norms in the first place. It’s just a matter of ‘calories in, calories out,’” and “Obesity is the leading cause of death in the United States.” Gordon goes on to debunk each one with historical references facts and data and sharp, stinging commentary.
You Just Need to Lose Weight is divided into four parts, each of which encapsulates a common refrain about fatness: “Being Fat Is a Choice,” “But What About Your Health?,” “Fat Acceptance Glorifies Obesity,” and “Fat People Should….” Those sections are broken up further into chapters, all myths you’ve probably heard before, like “Any fat person can become thin if they try hard enough.
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