Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

wasn’t a part of it. Today, the concept of beauty has become askew in a way that’s harmful to many girls and women. Most of my weight-loss clients hold themselves up to photos of supermodels in magazines, which have been Photoshopped for hours. Media also shapes what we believe is possible as far as overcoming our existing challenges. Movies contin

há evidências de que a gordofobia leva à diminuição da expectativa de vida.

There has been a real sea change in clinical thinking about anorexia over the past two decades. The prevailing view among those who treat it now is that it is a largely heritable condition of the brain rather than a symptom of having an overbearing mother or seeing too many ads featuring thin models.

Another facet of this enforced shrinking is that those with fat bodies are deemed somehow incapable of knowing what is best for them.