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Body Respect
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight | Linda Bacon, Lucy Aphramor
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Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. You�ve heard it before: there�s a global health crisis, (…more)
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dariazeoli
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I‘m sitting in my favorite spot in the park again today, pausing this audiobook to listen to the birds chirping and the breeze rustling the leaves. It‘s been a lovely 5 days away from the office and I‘ve made some progress on my #currentreads shelf!

Where is your favorite spot?

Tanisha_A Sooo good! 😍 6y
Tamra Nearly anyplace in the mountains of MT & WY by a trout river, otherwise my deck. 😁 Your spot is quite lovely! 6y
tammysue What a great spot! Mine is anywhere outdoors.. up at the lake, outside on my patio.. :) 6y
heikemarie I love to be by a rushing river or a babbling brook. This spot would definitely work though 💜 6y
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DragonsChilde
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This book was recommended to me to read while taking a holistic health course. There are a number of things wrong with the book. A plethora of vanity citations, and the logical fallacy Appeal to Authority are the two that come immediately to mind. This book pissed me off to the point of bailing.

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DragonsChilde
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See that? That's called a vanity citation.

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DragonsChilde
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Really? You're telling me that people who are discriminated against have higher self-acceptance?

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DragonsChilde

Super skeptical about this book. Part of me wishes I owned a copy of it so I could highlight and annotate it but I also don't want to spend money on it just yet.