International Size Acceptance Association - ISAA

International Size Acceptance Association - ISAA




ISAA Supports New Jessica Weiner Book

Do I Look Fat In This? addresses the fundamental issue facing millions of women and men around the world: what is at the heart of that loaded question that has no good answer?

Jessica Weiner expressed her own emergence from low self-esteem and body loathing in her first book, A Very Hungry Girl, and now she wants to help others understand and stop using what she calls "The Language of Fat."

ISAA supports the self- and size-acceptance that is represented in Do I Look Fat In This? and wants to encourage the public to buy this very helpful, informative and witty book by Jessica Weiner.

Do I Look Fat In This? Life Doesn't Begin Five Pounds From Now
(Simon Spotlight Entertainment)



Jessica Weiner has begun a nationwide book tour for Do I Look Fat In This? in which she will be talking about the book and answering questions. Please be sure to catch her when she comes to a location near you.

January 20
7:30pm Barnes and Noble
189 Grove Drive
Los Angeles, CA

January 23
7pm Bookpeople
603 North Lamar
Austin, TX

January 25
7:30pm Barnes and Noble
2900 Peachtree Rd. NE
Atlanta, GA

January 26
7:30pm Borders
12171 West Sunrise Blvd.
Plantation, FL

January 31
7:30pm Borders
1500 16th Street
Oak Brook, IL

February 27
7pm Borders
550 Second Ave.
New York, NY

March 1
7pm Penn Bookstore
3601 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA






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ISAA In Marie Claire!

ISAA is mentioned and Director Allen Steadham is quoted in the current (February 2006) issue of Marie Claire magazine, on sale everywhere. The series of articles in this issue is called "Why America Hates Fat Women." Steadham's quote is on page 81 in the section called "What YOU Can Do."



Listen to ISAA UK's Fatima Parker on BBC's 'Woman's Hour'





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RESPECT

Because you must respect yourself in order to succeed.

Self-respect and self-esteem are fundamental parts of the human psyche. They are essential keys to unlocking human potential.

When people feel good about themselves and become secure in who they are, they are able to look beyond their current circumstances and dream of a better life.

ISAA contends that every human being is deserving of a fundamental level of respect.

FITNESS

Because people of all sizes can
become more fit

Despite claims to the contrary, people do not have to become slim to become fit; it is possible to be "fit and fat" at the same time.

Basic low impact exercise such as walking and swimming can have a very noticeable and positive effect on the human body, when maintained on a semi-regular basis. As people become more fit, their chances of living longer increase.

HEALTH

Because everyone could benefit from healthier food choices

Modern work and family schedules are astoundingly fast and frantic, leaving little time for home-cooked or healthy meals. This, combined with a decrease in physically demanding jobs, the invention of mass transportation, computers, video games and the internet have resulted in less physically active societies that are also eating less healthily.

ISAA is committed to helping inform the public about healthier food choices.









The Mission of the International Size Acceptance Association is to promote size acceptance and to help end weight-based discrimination throughout the world by means of advocacy and visible, lawful actions.

Did you know that ISAA has branches across the United States, in Canada, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, Australia and even the Arab Nations? ISAA's message of size acceptance and Respect, Fitness, Health has reached millions of people through radio, television, newspapers and even through film (in the DVD edition of the Oscar-nominated documentary Supersize Me). ISAA representatives have been on the Fox News Channel, National Public Radio, CNN, Al-Jazeera, the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the Laura Ingraham Show and the Wall Street Journal's Work & Family Show. ISAA representatives have been quoted in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Times, TIME Magazine and many other notable publications, television and radio programs, both nationally and abroad.

So why all the attention to what ISAA has to say? ISAA takes a no-nonsense, professional approach to helping save lives through educating the public about health and wellness for people of all sizes as well as the realities of weight-based discrimination and who gets hurt by it (everyone). ISAA also reaches people through its online electronic magazine Without Measure and ISAA launched the world's first size acceptance online talk radio show (a podcast), The ISAA Rapport in 2002. Now, it has been followed by ISAA Pods and PODWOM.

ISAA believes that by communicating our message through interesting and entertaining mediums, in addition to public appearances and advocacy campaigns, we have the best chance of reaching the most people to give them information they might not otherwise receive or consider. This is to help empower people to make decisions for themselves, armed with the necessary information to make educated choices concerning their health and their bodies, or those close to them.








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SIZE-RELATED WORLD HEADLINES


  • CDC Links Extra Pounds, Lower Death Risk (AP News)
  • Many Scientists Admit to Misconduct (Washington Post)
  • Obesity: Size Isn't Everything (UK's Indepedent)
  • 'Happy In Our Own Skin' (South Africa's Mail & Guardian Online)
  • Does Weight Loss Up Death Risk For Obese People? (Reuters)
  • Non-Dieters More Successful At Boosting Health Than Dieters, Study Finds (Foodconsumer.org)


Click Here To View The Study On Weight Bias Among Health Professionals Specializing In Obesity

The Rudd Institute at Yale University conducted a study "to determine the level of anti-fat bias in health professionals specializing in obesity." To accomplish this, they created the Implicit Associations Test (IAT) and issued it during an international obesity conference. The above report assesses the results of the IAT given at that conference and clearly shows a "pro-thin, anti-fat implicit bias" among those health professionals who were tested.

Would you like to take the IAT? Click Here Now! (It's FREE!)











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