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"For women who've learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image. Readers will discover that not only is their body capable, strong, and worthy of compassion and celebration; it's also the key to unleashing their most authentic and radiant selves"--
85) Body beautiful: how changing the conversation about our bodies has the power to change the world
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"'All I want in life is to have Michelle Obama's arms' You know those conversations, right? The causal ones we have about our bodies; what's wrong with them, what we are eating, what we are not eating, what "new program" we are on to "transform" our appearance in the hopes that it will transform the way we feel when we look in the mirror? It's easy to almost dismiss these conversations and the destructive cultural narrative we feed ourselves and our...
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"Part social commentary, part cultural analysis, part careful investigation and part powerful personal anecdotes, a provocative book explores the relationship between appearance and science, social media, sex, friendship, language and advertising to show how beauty actually affects us day to day,"--NoveList.
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"Tosty i posty: Przewodnik : Dla zniechęconych odchudzaniem. Czy dieta to nasza nowa religia? Czy piękne ciało jest gwarancją szczęśliwego życia? Czy post jest reliktem przeszłości? Tosty i posty/Posty i tosty to książka, która pokazuje dwa różne podejścia do jedzenia: cielesne i duchowe, i obie te postawy odziera ze złudzeń. Kilka razy w roku postanawiasz, że tym razem na pewno schudniesz. Dziwisz się, że bohaterki ekskluzywnych...
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"Diet Starts Monday is a no-BS guide to body acceptance in a looks-obsessed world. Plus-size TV personality and body confidence advocate Laura Adlington has struggled with her weight (and the weight of other people's opinions) her entire life. Here, in conversation with experts including doctors, psychologists and nutritionists, Laura reveals just how detrimental diet culture is to health, and explores where our true worth lies. Packed with personal...
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Why is today's diet industry pulling in 70 billion dollars every year, while when people go on a diet, only five percent of them succeed and the rest gain weight or stay the same? Here's why: A heavy, shamed body is a body with an unheard message and a thwarted quest, and until the secrets are unlocked and the wisdom is harvested, that impasse will be unbreachable. In these pages, Bedrick offers seventeen stories of individual women who open the door...
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