Reviews tagging 'Eating disorder'

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

9 reviews

disnelyse's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Fatphobia and Vomit

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, and Racism

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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Content Warnings

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

agenderberry335's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Fatphobia

jackiepreston's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

belovedsnail's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

mhigbee's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

marleyshaddox's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder

briannastw's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

mostlymusings's review against another edition

challenging informative

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

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