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A heart surgeon and TV star investigates why our health is declining despite our obsession with fitspiration and the image of health. How have we messed up our relationship with food and exercise so badly? Despite an explosion in the number of gyms, health foods and activewear, we are more obese, less active, more stressed than ever before. We obsess over looking healthy, but our health is getting worse. Why did we start equating beauty with health? And is it possible to be fit and fat? Equipped with Instagram accounts and blogs, online 'wellness experts' lead an army of followers towards what is labelled 'health' but might actually be far from it. We photograph ourselves and our food, but aren't sure whether we like the images until someone else 'likes' them first. It seems all this health and wellness is making us unhappy, poor and pretty unhealthy instead. Heart surgeon and health commentator Dr Nikki Stamp unpicks the web of online pseudoscience and urges us to take back our health from the people who don't value it as much as we do. She explores the secret of long-term motivation for healthy diet and exercise, and shares the scientific value of self-kindness for true physical and mental health.

Pretty unhealthy : why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick / Nikki Stamp.

"Fat Activist Vernacular, a fat queer feminist glossary, is a powerful and witty exploration of fat as a cultural, social and political experience."--From publisher.

Fat artist vernacular / by Charlotte Cooper.

"Trigger warnings: Fatphobia/fatangonism, the o word, mention of the BMI."--Page [3]

14 pages : black and white illustrations ; 15 cm

On fatphobia and dating : and how you're probably still a jerk / by Fat Kitty Rising.

"Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after two decades of dieting and constant guilt, she was over it - and gave herself the freedom to trust her own body again. Ever since, she's been helping others to do the same. Tovar is hungry for a world where bodies are valued equally, food is free from moral judgment, and you can jiggle through life with respect. In concise and candid language, she delves into unlearning fatphobia, dismantling sexist notions of fashion, and rejecting diet culture's greatest lie: that fat people need to wait before beginning their best lives."--Publisher description.

You have the right to remain fat / Virgie Tovar.

Fat positive zine that includes fat activist profiles, a review of diet drug Alli, body positive mantras, ethics of shopping for plus size clothing, fat history, parenting and adoption, and an interview with Sarah Perry on fat anime characters.

35 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

Figure 8 : refuse to feel shame about your body! #4.

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Pretty unhealthy : why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick / Nikki Stamp.

Fat artist vernacular / by Charlotte Cooper.

On fatphobia and dating : and how you're probably still a jerk / by Fat Kitty Rising.

You have the right to remain fat / Virgie Tovar.

Figure 8 : refuse to feel shame about your body! #4.

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Discrimination against overweight persons

Catalogue

Pretty unhealthy : why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick / Nikki Stamp.

Fat artist vernacular / by Charlotte Cooper.

On fatphobia and dating : and how you're probably still a jerk / by Fat Kitty Rising.

You have the right to remain fat / Virgie Tovar.

Figure 8 : refuse to feel shame about your body! #4.

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