A review by pmhandley
What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety by Cole Kazdin

dark emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.0

A really informative look at diet culture and eating disorders and how dysfunctional treatment options are. It's astonishing how little research we have done on effective treatments, and the massive racial disparities in who gets diagnosed. I appreciate how the author vetted who to include in her book, because it turned out so many people treating eating disorder patients are also on the payroll of diet and exercise companies pushing unhealthy ideas around food. The fertility chapter near the end was interesting but felt a little out of place, like there were some strained ties to the rest of the diet culture theme but it felt more like the author just wanted to fertility journey in the book somewhere. 
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