Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America by Virginia Sole-Smith

8 reviews

s_jw's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.0

I think this book was poorly labeled and blurbed. If you are looking for a more technical deep dive into the history of dieting and diet culture in America this is not the book for you. The author is a journalist and it shows in her writing by being very accessible and mainly anecdotal. HOWEVER this book is a four star due to the fact that her story and others she interviewed are incredibly interesting and touching. I love reading the chapter about hunger and her struggles with her daughter learning to eat. A must ready if you are a parent to a kid who struggles to eat and is picky. Informative and touching overall. 

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Graphic: Eating disorder, Vomit, Medical trauma, Ableism, Fatphobia, Classism, and Medical content

agenderberry335's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical trauma, and Medical content

Moderate: Fatphobia

jackiepreston's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Vomit, Addiction, Medical content, Medical trauma, Body shaming, Fatphobia, and Classism

belovedsnail's review

emotional informative medium-paced

3.75

I found it interesting, but incomplete in many ways. The logic of which angles of the topic she chose for focus never became clear.

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Graphic: Eating disorder

mhigbee's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Minor: Fatphobia, Eating disorder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racism, Vomit, Dysphoria, Classism, Body shaming, and Ableism

marleyshaddox's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

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Graphic: Eating disorder and Body shaming

briannastw's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Graphic: Eating disorder

mostlymusings's review against another edition

challenging informative

3.5

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Moderate: Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Vomit

Contains frequent use of the terms "obese/obesity" in a medicalized or descriptive way.