Linda Bacon Quote

While it is clear that our food choices are a matter of personal responsibility, it is important to recognize that we do not make our choices in a vacuum. We select our foods in an environment toxic with government policies that encourage cheap prices for foods with low nutrient value, and in which billions of dollars have been spent to convince us to distrust ourselves, to overeat, and to eat foods laced with ingredients that raise our setpoints and damage our health.

Linda Bacon

While it is clear that our food choices are a matter of personal responsibility, it is important to recognize that we do not make our choices in a vacuum. We select our foods in an environment toxic with government policies that encourage cheap prices for foods with low nutrient value, and in which billions of dollars have been spent to convince us to distrust ourselves, to overeat, and to eat foods laced with ingredients that raise our setpoints and damage our health.

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About Linda Bacon

Lindo Bacon, born and published as Linda Bacon, is a nutritionist, researcher and author. They have a doctorate in physiology and master's degrees in exercise science and psychotherapy.
Much of Bacon's earliest work is in the Health at Every Size field, including Health at Every Size and Body Respect. Bacon's latest book, Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It for the Better) was published in November 2020.
Lindo is genderqueer and goes by they/them pronouns.