The Nutrition Science Podcast
Can You Really Be Healthy At Any Size? My Honest Take on the Health At Every Size Movement
Jan 19, 2024
This episode discusses the Health At Every Size movement and its principles, challenges the idea that health is determined solely by weight, explores the concept of a healthy body fat percentage, highlights the benefits of adhering to healthy nutrition, and emphasizes the importance of focusing on habits for improved health.
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Quick takeaways
- Improving fitness levels and adhering to healthy dietary patterns play a more significant role in health outcomes than body weight or fat.
- The Health at Every Size movement promotes body diversity, rejects weight stigmatization, emphasizes holistic health, and encourages enjoyable, flexible eating and movement.
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Benefits of fitness in mitigating health risks
Research shows that unfit individuals have a 2.4 times higher risk of death compared to fit individuals. Additionally, fit obese individuals have lower health risks compared to unfit healthy weight individuals.
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