Kate Hudson, There Is Nothing Healthy About Intentional Weight Loss

It's just come out that Kate Hudson is Weight Watcher's new brand ambassador, and she says she's doing it for her health and her kids. Well, I've got a truth bomb for Kate: science tells us that intentional weight loss makes us less healthy, not more. That's why I'm asking her to cut her deal with WW and promote true wellness in the form of body positivity! 

Will you join me in asking this extremely influential famous person to put her 'weight' behind true wellness?

The scientific evidence is clear: not only does dieting not work in its stated goal of long-term weight loss, but its stated goal also does not actually result in greater health. 

Dieting doesn't equal long-term weight loss in 95% of people who try it. But it does cause emotional, psychological and social suffering in the process, as well as cause weight cycling, which is measurabley dangerous.

Weight Watchers knows the science is against it, which is why they rebranded to 'WW' recently and are trying to pivot to becing a "wellness" brand. But it's still a diet with points and intentional weight loss as the goal, regardless of that branding. Not to mention that all the "wellness" branded stuff out there is just diet culture dressed up in the newest way to seem more healthy.

So, if Kate Hudson really wants to promote holistic wellness, she would never promote intentional weight loss. She would actually preach body positivity because one of the biggest risks to being "overweight" is actually weight stigma, internalized and externalized pressure and oppression that really takes a toll on your health. In fact, here is an alternative approach she could support that would actually help people: Health At Every Size. Not to mention how dangerous eating disorders are and how commonly they are born out of dieting. 

Kate may or may not know that the science is against her on this and that she is actively harming people who listen to her by supporting something like Weight Watchers.

That's why I'm starting this petition! Will you sign on to ask Kate Hudson to use her influence for good and not promote Weight Watchers?

Implicit in all of this is thin privilege, white privilege and the toxic diet culture. I love that Kate Hudson is promoting wellness — we could all be healthier! But being smaller doesn't equal healthier and the stigma of being larger is making larger people less healthy, too. So, Kate Hudson, please listen to us and use your public voice for good!
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