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A review by dannip23
Obsessed: America's Food Addiction - And My Own by Mika Brzezinski
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News journalist Mika Brzezinski explores her personal journey of struggles with food and weight — and also tackles the enormous problem of obesity in America. From reporters to senators to actors, this is a grand exploration of why we are fat and what we can do to fix it. Mika, of course, is not fat, but admits her own eating habits are not healthy and obsesses over eating and exercise.
The problem of course is that there are so many different ways to approach the problem of unhealthy eating, and this book tries to confront everything — and ends up lacking focus.
So much time was spent on the opinions and lives of “ordinary people” like celebrities and journalists and not enough spent talking to nutrition and health experts. One part I found troubling was Mika’s statement that she doesn’t eat red meat, but feeds her daughters steak “because they need protein and iron.” According to the American Dietetic Association, a vegetarian diet is “healthful” and “nutritionally adequate...during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.” So Mika needs to check her facts.
The problem of course is that there are so many different ways to approach the problem of unhealthy eating, and this book tries to confront everything — and ends up lacking focus.
So much time was spent on the opinions and lives of “ordinary people” like celebrities and journalists and not enough spent talking to nutrition and health experts. One part I found troubling was Mika’s statement that she doesn’t eat red meat, but feeds her daughters steak “because they need protein and iron.” According to the American Dietetic Association, a vegetarian diet is “healthful” and “nutritionally adequate...during all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, and adolescence, and for athletes.” So Mika needs to check her facts.