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Mindful Eating: Free Yourself From The Diet Language
Is obesity a disease, and weight loss is the solution?
That is the common belief. Yet, studies have since refuted this assumption, and from my experience I have learned that it is far from reality, but even so, this is still the given opinion among the masses. The pursuit of thinness, the diet that accompanies it, and the failure therein has created a language (for lack of a better term). A language of eating - the Diet Language. This is a language administrated by control, intimidation, abstention and threat and by an external imposition dictating what to eat, when, how much, how to feel and what to think before, during and after eating. Many are convinced that food must be feared, that you have to exercise a lot to lose weight, that you have to count calories, and routinely weigh yourself. Many people are mistaken, confusing how they think about reality and its true nature. This confusion creates suffering.
We should take another moment to consider a fundamental question: what is obesity? The traditional definition of obesity fits in with the mechanistic philosophy, which regards good health as the absence of risk factors. According to this outlook, obesity is a disease and health is the lack of disease. The weight centered approach assumes that losing weight is essential to improving health.
This book presents a different eating language, "Mindful Eating". This approach will snap the chains of the old diet culture which bind you to its rules and language. My call to you is not “Let us be fat,” however, but “Let's accept what we cannot change about our bodies in order to change what we can.”
What Mindful Eating offers us is simply a return to sane eating which normalizes the way we eat and how we feel about our bodies regardless of our body weight. Within the human race, there exists a natural and legitimate diversity in body shape and weight. Recognizing this diversity and acknowledging the eating patterns specific to each one of us could help make our lives freer, and surprisingly more healthy and valuable too.
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That is the common belief. Yet, studies have since refuted this assumption, and from my experience I have learned that it is far from reality, but even so, this is still the given opinion among the masses. The pursuit of thinness, the diet that accompanies it, and the failure therein has created a language (for lack of a better term). A language of eating - the Diet Language. This is a language administrated by control, intimidation, abstention and threat and by an external imposition dictating what to eat, when, how much, how to feel and what to think before, during and after eating. Many are convinced that food must be feared, that you have to exercise a lot to lose weight, that you have to count calories, and routinely weigh yourself. Many people are mistaken, confusing how they think about reality and its true nature. This confusion creates suffering.
We should take another moment to consider a fundamental question: what is obesity? The traditional definition of obesity fits in with the mechanistic philosophy, which regards good health as the absence of risk factors. According to this outlook, obesity is a disease and health is the lack of disease. The weight centered approach assumes that losing weight is essential to improving health.
This book presents a different eating language, "Mindful Eating". This approach will snap the chains of the old diet culture which bind you to its rules and language. My call to you is not “Let us be fat,” however, but “Let's accept what we cannot change about our bodies in order to change what we can.”
What Mindful Eating offers us is simply a return to sane eating which normalizes the way we eat and how we feel about our bodies regardless of our body weight. Within the human race, there exists a natural and legitimate diversity in body shape and weight. Recognizing this diversity and acknowledging the eating patterns specific to each one of us could help make our lives freer, and surprisingly more healthy and valuable too.
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Published August 29, 2015
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Mindful Eating By Ayelet Kalter: Focus On Diet And Not Weight
If you think obesity is a disease, and you can resolve it only with weight loss; you might be living with a wrong perception. And you need to read Mindful Eating by Ayelet Kalter. Most of the people have a common perception that with weight loss by adopting whatsoever ways is right. There are many reasons for obesity. Understanding the basic fundamental cause of obesity is important before taking it as a disease. Straightaway going for a weight loss solution is not correct. It is important to understand that there are many misconceptions created on the market. That is just for the sake of earning money in a wrong way. What to eat, how to eat, when to eat, what to think before and while eating, are all misnomers that are not bound to bear any fruitful results.
For many terms like eating, food and happiness have become three sides of a wall and that too unconnected walls. Food has become a subject of tension for many. And amidst all these confusions the person develops a number of ambiguities in his or her health thus deteriorating further rather than leading to a conclusive solution. Mindful Eating by Ayelet Kalter provides a lot of information in this regard. People start getting into a routine of excessive exercise and less intake of healthy food that impacting their health resulting in serious damages inside the body. Is it right that increasing weight is a sign of danger, obesity is unhealthy and losing weight is healthy?
Mindful Eating: Free Yourself From The Diet Language by Ayelet Kalter is able to present an altogether different and relevant meaning to eating. It talks about a new philosophy of mindful eating. It is critical to understand what is more important. Is it important to understand if you are healthy even with obesity and vice versa? Or it is more important to keep checking your weight in a confusing way and trying to do something or the other which might be not at all relevant to check it and control it.
Knowing what you eat and what it does inside your body is more important. That is what Mindful Eating by Ayelet Kalter focuses on. And that is what Free Yourself From The Diet Language by Ayelet Kalter talks about. It tells you to take a path of sensible eating because that is the way in which you must feel good about your food and health all the time irrespective of your body weight.
Mindful Eating By Ayelet Kalter: Focus On Diet And Not Weight
If you think obesity is a disease, and you can resolve it only with weight loss; you might be living with a wrong perception. And you need to read Mindful Eating by Ayelet Kalter. Most of the people have a common perception that with weight loss by adopting whatsoever ways is right. There are many reasons for obesity. Understanding the basic fundamental cause of obesity is important before taking it as a disease. Straightaway going for a weight loss solution is not correct. It is important to understand that there are many misconceptions created on the market. That is just for the sake of earning money in a wrong way. What to eat, how to eat, when to eat, what to think before and while eating, are all misnomers that are not bound to bear any fruitful results.
For many terms like eating, food and happiness have become three sides of a wall and that too unconnected walls. Food has become a subject of tension for many. And amidst all these confusions the person develops a number of ambiguities in his or her health thus deteriorating further rather than leading to a conclusive solution. Mindful Eating by Ayelet Kalter provides a lot of information in this regard. People start getting into a routine of excessive exercise and less intake of healthy food that impacting their health resulting in serious damages inside the body. Is it right that increasing weight is a sign of danger, obesity is unhealthy and losing weight is healthy?
Mindful Eating: Free Yourself From The Diet Language by Ayelet Kalter is able to present an altogether different and relevant meaning to eating. It talks about a new philosophy of mindful eating. It is critical to understand what is more important. Is it important to understand if you are healthy even with obesity and vice versa? Or it is more important to keep checking your weight in a confusing way and trying to do something or the other which might be not at all relevant to check it and control it.
Knowing what you eat and what it does inside your body is more important. That is what Mindful Eating by Ayelet Kalter focuses on. And that is what Free Yourself From The Diet Language by Ayelet Kalter talks about. It tells you to take a path of sensible eating because that is the way in which you must feel good about your food and health all the time irrespective of your body weight.
October 18, 2017
The idea behind this book is solid. It is about non-judgment. But I am going to be judgmental and point out how badly it needs a good edit. It has many errors, I have no idea if it was translated from another language and maybe the translation was not accurate or if it is just has poor sentence structure and grammar.
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