Stay Attuned ™: The E-zine for Nourishing ConnectionsYour journey to freedom from food and weight struggles presents an opportunity for not only a new relationship with food, but also a new relationship with yourself and others. Ultimately, it is a journey of nourishing connections with yourself, others--and yes--even food. Stay Attuned™ is committed to supporting you in this journey and to helping you develop nourishing connections that will last a lifetime. Remember, a journey always starts with one small step....
From fellow travelers,
Nourishing Nuggets“All truth passes through three stages... First it is ridiculed. Second it is violently opposed. Third it is accepted as being self-evident." ~ Schopenhauer Reflections for Staying Attuned
Obesity research is biased. This fact is well documented in books
such as Losing It by Fraser; Big Fat Lies by Gaesser;
Dispensing with the Truth by Mundy; The Obesity Myth
by Campos, and others. Yet healthcare professionals, the government
and diet industries continue to recommend weight loss diets to those
even a few pounds over the arbitrary "desirable" body weight
standards.
Will they continue to push weight loss? Well, 400,000 people die of obesity each year, right? At least that is what the Centers for Disease Control has been declaring. But numerous professionals found serious problems with those calculations (see articles at our site), and have been demanding the CDC re-examine their math. Well, they finally did and guess what? There was a little mistake! Oops. The actual number is only 25,814, not 400,000! Oops. People defined as overweight but not obese had a lower risk of death than people of normal weight!
A recent Journal of the American Medical Association article by the CDC's own epidemiologists has confirmed that weight as a health issue has been greatly over exaggerated. In fact, this new study, perhaps the most thorough of its kind, shows quite clearly that the relationship between weight and mortality is nonexistent for most overweight people.
Looks like healthcare professionals, the government, and diet industries need to quit telling everyone to lose weight!
Looks like Fraser, Gaesser, Campos and Mundy were right. Obesity research is biased! Stay Attuned TipCommit to learning more about how obesity research is biased so that you can become more skeptical when media frenzy makes it look like we are all about to die from four extra pounds. Commit to learning how fatness and higher weights are not necessarily unhealthy, and how thinness is not necessarily healthy. Read Big Fat Lies, The Obesity Myth, Losing It and/or Dispensing With the Truth, available at gurze.com or amazon.com. Or you can read Chapter 2 of Moving Away From Diets, available at our site. Stay Attuned Affirmation "I open my eyes to the ways fatness is demonized in our culture." What's New at Nourishing ConnectionsRead what others are saying about the recalculations of the CDC numbers at (insert link for research_and_such at our site, same as above). Feedback and ClosingWelcome to our new subscribers, and hello to current members! Stay Attuned™ exists for you. If you have ideas for topics or feedback (did you try an idea? how did it go?), please write us at ideas@nourishingconnections.com. Spread the WordFeel free to forward this E-zine to others. We just ask that you keep the E-zine intact, including contact and copyright information. For any other use, written permission is required. And thank you for sharing Stay Attuned™! Subscribe or UnsubscribeTo subscribe (to join), email join-stayattuned@list.nourishingconnections.com. To unsubscribe (be removed from list), email leave-stayattuned@list.nourishingconnections.com. Delivery Problems
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