Size Acceptance and Intuitive Eating Improve Health for Obese, Female Chronic Dieters
Journal of the American Dietetic AssociationPublished 1 June 2005
Linda Bacon, Judith S. Stern, Marta D. Van Loan, Nancy L. Keim
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Encouraging size acceptance, reduction in dieting behavior, and heightened awareness and response to body signals resulted in improved health risk indicators for obese women.
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The health at every size approach enabled participants to maintain long-term behavior change; the diet approach did not. Encouraging size acceptance, reduction in dieting behavior, and heightened awareness and response to body signals resulted in improved health risk indicators for obese women.
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