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Health at every size

Kim Raubenheimer - Monday, November 02, 2009
When it comes to health...it is not all about the number on the scale, the charts, what the "average" body fat is......it is how your clothes fit, and how you feel.  Eat and enjoy it.  Keep the balance.

Here are the basic principles of Health At Every Size (HAES): 

  1. Accepting and respecting the diversity of body shapes and  sizes.
     

  2. Recognizing that health and well-being are multi-dimensional and that they include physical, social, spiritual, occupational, emotional, and intellectual aspects.
     

  3. Promoting all aspects of health and well-being for people of all sizes.
     

  4. Promoting eating in a manner which balances individual nutritional needs, hunger, satiety, appetite, and pleasure.
     

  5. Promoting individually appropriate, enjoyable, life-enhancing physical activity, rather than exercise that is focused on a goal of weight loss.

Health At Every Size (sometimes referred to as Health At Any Size, or Health For All Sizes) is a solution to health concerns that helps people live well without encouraging or reinforcing size/weight prejudices or phobias, poor body image, or eating disorders—or the negative health consequences of dieting-related weight loss and regain.

Work on a lifestyle that you can maintain for a healthy life.

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