• 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.

• Part One
• Part Two
• Note: there are more parts in this series at the ASDAH website.

Weighty Issues: Fatness and Thinness as Social Problems

• Chapter 12: The Size Acceptance Movement and the Social Construction of Body Weight