You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People

You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by the brilliant Aubrey Gordon is a book for everyone to read.

We live in a world of social and systematic anti-fat bias. In this book Gordon debunks the ideas that have helped to create this body of myths.

Broken into easy to digest bits that make up the false logic that our institutions base their policies on, this book will make you think about your biases. From using the BMI as a measure of health (it was a survey of the people in Norway and was never meant to be diagnostic or related to health - until insurance companies started using it to raise rates), to the idea that skinny is healthier, this breakdown of how we got here is easy to read and eye opening. 

Also check out Aubrey Gordon's podcast, Maintenance Phase, for a very entertaining listen while you learn a ton.

Gordon, Aubrey. (2023). You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People. Boston: Beacon.