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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.

"Content note: mentions of starving, binging, exercise, measurements of food, specific foods, measurements of body weight, the male gaze."--Page 1.

Twenty one things I did when I was thin / by Darcy Leigh.

The first NHS doctor to take a public stand against diet culture and empower you to do the same. Losing weight is not your life's purpose. Do carbs make you fat? Could the keto diet cure mental health disorders? Are eggs as bad for you as smoking? No, no and absolutely not. It's all what Dr Joshua Wolrich defines as 'nutribollocks' and he is on a mission to set the record straight. As an NHS doctor with personal experience of how damaging diets can be, he believes every one of us deserves to have a happy, healthy relationship with food and with our bodies. His message is clear- we need to fight weight stigma, call out the lies of diet culture and give ourselves permission to eat all foods. Food Isn't Medicine wades through nutritional science (both good and bad) to demystify the common diet myths that many of us believe without questioning. If you have ever wondered whether you should stop eating sugar, try fasting, juicing or 'alkaline water', or struggled through diet after diet (none of which seem to work), this book will be a powerful wake-up call. Drawing on the latest research and delivered with a dose of humour, it not only liberates us from the destructive belief that weight defines health but also explains how to spot the misinformation we are bombarded with every day. Dr Joshua Wolrich will empower you to escape the diet trap and call out the bad health advice for what it really is: complete nutribollocks.

294 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Food isn't medicine : challenge nutribillocks & escape the diet trap / Dr Joshua Wolrich.

"Wellness is oppressive, self-love is a trap, hustling is a health risk and it's all the patriarchy's fault. Poor Little Sick Girls is THE book for femmes who are online and want more from activism and life. Ione Gamble never imagined that entering adulthood would mean being diagnosed with an incurable illness. Watching identity politics become social media fodder from the confines of her sickbed Ione began to pick apart our obsession with self-care, personal branding, productivity and #LivingYourBestLife. Using her experience with disability to cast a fresh gaze on the particularly peculiar cultural moment in which young women find themselves, Poor Little Sick Girls explores the pressures faced - as well as the power of existing as - a chronically ill, overweight, and unacceptable woman in our current era of empowerment."--From publisher.

Poor little sick girls : a love letter to unacceptable women / Ione Gamble.

Library of gender and popular culture

xiii, 282 pages : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm.

Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.

"Some of the content of this zine could be triggering for those with past or current eating disorders and survivors of rape/sexual assault."--[Page 2]
"Where can I read about other women and girls' experiences dealing with the body image of their mothers and daughters? They don't seem to exist yet but in the meantime I want to put together this zine to collect stories of women who lived with critical mothers and those with supportive too."--[Page 1]

1 volume (unnumbered pages) : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm

For your own good : a zine about mothers, daughters and body image.

"Trigger warnings: fatphobia/fatangonism, mention of calories and diet (one time), some angry words. Also, if you have an eating disorder, my anger is not towards you, I understand that it is a whole different situation."--From page 2.

You "feel" fat today, I hate you forever / by Fat Kitty Rising.

"As usual, this zine contains writings about feelings, politics, and figuring out my own truths. There's stuff on veganism, fat, gender and feminism, autism, witchcraft and aging."--From zinester.
"Content note: fatphobia, weight loss, disordered eating, restrictive diets, mental health."--Page 6.
"Content note: discussion of dysphoria, dysmorphia, misogyny, transmisogyny, heterosexism, homo- and transphobia."--Page 12

Scorpio moon

36 pages : black and white illustrations ; 15 cm

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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.

Twenty one things I did when I was thin / by Darcy Leigh.

Food isn't medicine : challenge nutribillocks & escape the diet trap / Dr Joshua Wolrich.

Poor little sick girls : a love letter to unacceptable women / Ione Gamble.

Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.

For your own good : a zine about mothers, daughters and body image.

You "feel" fat today, I hate you forever / by Fat Kitty Rising.

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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.

Twenty one things I did when I was thin / by Darcy Leigh.

Food isn't medicine : challenge nutribillocks & escape the diet trap / Dr Joshua Wolrich.

Poor little sick girls : a love letter to unacceptable women / Ione Gamble.

Fat on film : gender, race and body size in contemporary Hollywood cinema / Barbara Plotz.

For your own good : a zine about mothers, daughters and body image.

You "feel" fat today, I hate you forever / by Fat Kitty Rising.

Scorpio moon. #5

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