Health at Every Size Club
About
Health at Every Size (HAES) is a lifestyle that specifically discourages the idea that weight loss is the way to become healthy.
HAES Principles
Weight inclusivity - Accept and respect the inherent diversity of body shapes and sizes and reject the idealizing or pathologizing of specific weights.
Health Enhancement - Support health policies that improve and equalize access to information and services, and personal practices that improve human well-being, including attention to individual physical, economic, social, spiritual, emotional and other needs.
Eating for Well-Being - Promote flexible, individualized eating based on hunger, satiety, nutritional needs, and pleasure, rather than any externally regulated eating plan focused on weight control.
Respectful Care - Acknowledge our biases, and work to end weight discrimination, weight stigma, and weight bias. Provide information and services from an understanding that socio-economic status, race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and other identities impact weight stigma, and support environments that address these inequities.
Life-Enhancing Movement - Support physical activities that allow people of all sizes, abilities, and interests to engage in enjoyable movement, to the degree that they choose.
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(https://asdah.org/health-at-every-size-haes-approach/)
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This club will consist of weekly meetings where students can discuss and bond over shared experiences having to do with these 5 principles. All bodies are welcome. All experiences are welcome. Wherever you are on your journey to self acceptance, you are welcome.