HAES Resources

Here is a short list of some resources for the Health At Every Size approach to health care. If you would like to recommend another HAES-related resource, please email HAES UK at info@healthateverysize.org.uk.

Books

Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon

A thorough book that covers how to do HAES and also the science behind HAES.

The Diet Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health by Paul Campos

This book discusses the strength of the science evidence concerning weight and health, showing that the evidence for panicking about the so-called "obesity epidemic" is much less than the media like to portray.

Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: quit dieting and declare a truce with your body by Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby

This is a collection of thoughts from fat acceptance bloggers, mainly Kate Harding at Shapely Prose and Marianne Kirby at The Rotund, concerning the relationship between fat and health. It is solidly pro-fat-acceptance and pro-body-acceptance and pro-HAES.

Articles

Health at Every Size: Toward a New Paradigm of Weight and Health
Jon Robison explains the basics of HAES.

Health at Every Size: New Hope for Obese Americans?
Marcia Wood describes the results of a women's health improvement study where the HAES approach was tested against the conventional dieting approach.

Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?
W. Wayt Gibbs' article from the June 2005 issue of Scientific American discusses the impact (or not) of obesity on health in the US.

Websites

HAES Connections
This community for people interested in HAES includes a registry of HAES practitioners and many resources.

Health At Every Size
Peggy Elam produces regular podcasts on HAES.

The Body Positive
This educational site by Deb Burgard contains a lot of body acceptance resources.

Shapely Prose
Kate Harding's blog covers topics mainly on HAES and fat acceptance.