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Healthy Lifestyle is More Important Than Weight: While popular media tends to equate being thin with being healthy, a number of professional associations dedicated to fighting eating disorders have unanimously declared that a healthy lifestyle is far more important than one's weight or Body Mass Index (BMI). The Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), Binge Eating Disorder Association (BEDA), Eating Disorder Coalition (EDC), International Association for Eating Disorder Professionals (IADEP), and National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) all feel that the attention on BMI creates weight prejudice that can not only lead to weight discrimination and low self-esteem but can encourage poor eating habits in people who are overweight but still lead active and healthy lifestyles. "Targeting weight just isn't working," says Linda Bacon, Ph.D., nutrition professor, researcher, and author of "Health at Every Size." Bacon is also a member of the Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH). " Well-intentioned as the 'war on obesity' may have been, there has been extensive collateral damage," she adds. " Food and body preoccupation, self-hatred, eating disorders, weight discrimination, poor health--few people are at peace with their bodies." What It Means: Don't sweat the number on the scale or even the measurement of your waistline. If you eat nutritiously, exercise regularly, and feel good, be happy with your health.