Weight Bias Quotes

“The pharmaceutical industry, which has a vested interest in making us believe that fat is dangerous—and that they have a solution—wrote the BMI standards that are currently used.

The derivation of children’s BMI standards was even worse. They were just arbitrarily assigned, without even the pretense of considering health data.”
― Linda Bacon, Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight

“Food is not the enemy,
society is.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One