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What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety by Cole Kazdin
27 reviews
amandaboyer's review
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical trauma, Dysphoria, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Self harm, Vomit, Mental illness, Fatphobia, and Chronic illness
Moderate: Classism, Racism, Grief, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Infertility, and Alcoholism
secrethistory's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
4.0
Great introduction to eating disorders. I wish there was more info out there, but this book draws from a wide range of patients, researchers, and treatment practitioners, and feels very complete. Memoir was woven in seamlessly and really added to the rest of the content.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
aqtbenz's review
challenging
emotional
sad
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Medical content, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Vomit, Medical trauma, Eating disorder, and Infertility
spellboundreader's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
“Failure is the business model for the weight loss industry… and companies rely on repeat customers…”
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This book… Bless you Cole Kazdin. I won’t be going into detail about my struggles with weight loss or my relationship with food in this review. Just know that those struggles exist, and I am far from healthy. Physically or mentally… The sad part is that I am not alone.
The epidemic of ED’s in this country is ridiculous and completely avoidable. Unfortunately, I feel like social media will never stop picking apart women’s bodies, so we have to take matters into our own hands.
Cole highlights in this book the importance of our mindset and how we view food. Or rather, our relationship with food. The importance of seeking nutrients that our body needs, rather than eliminating “bad foods” and picking up another fad diet that we know won’t work. Moderation is key to a physically/mentally/emotionally healthy lifestyle.
This book is part memoir, investigative reporting, a dash of self-help and completely feminist. I would genuinely recommend this books to every woman who is unsatisfied with her body. Because it truly is NOT our faults.
TW’s: obviously there are discussions of ED’s.
HAES (Health At Every Size) is mentioned in this book, and to be honest, I still have mixed feeling on the movement. Do your own research in this department.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Vomit, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Fatphobia, Eating disorder, and Medical trauma
sophieheinrichs's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, Infertility, Body shaming, Mental illness, Death, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Self harm, and Suicide
dkmons's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
This book is all about the reality of recovery & relapse in eating disorders, and what it’s like from a firsthand experience attempting to go through recovery. I received an ebook copy from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
What's Eating Us by Cole Kazdin is a well-balanced mix of journalistic-style, research-based writing, the author’s journey of battling an eating disorder and her recovery journey. We watch her as she struggles with her disorder and searches for innovative, yet evidence-based tools for recovery.
I’m a dietitian who specializes in working with women with disordered eating, body image issues, and chronic health conditions. Big disclaimer here: I would not recommend this to someone with a current ED, or someone who is in the early stages of recovery from ED, because the descriptions of certain behaviors and thoughts throughout the book would be triggering. However, I think this is a fantastic book recommendation for anyone else who struggles with body image issues, chronic dieting, or their relationship with food in any way. In particular, I think a lot of health practitioners would benefit from reading this book. It clearly delineates how our culture’s ‘health’, fatphobia, and food biases show up in different fields and contribute to this toxic environment that makes it hard NOT to develop disordered eating or chronic dieting patterns.
So many women will be able to relate to this. The author describes the exact inner dialogue I hear explained by so many clients.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
likemindedbooks's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Self harm, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Dysphoria, and Addiction
final_girl's review
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Whenever we begin a conversation about women and weight there will be a lot to unpack. Women almost universally experience anxiety about their bodies, their diet, and their weight. Kazdin starts a very honest and factual discussion about diet culture, disordered eating, and the astounding pressure women feel each day to change their bodies to be anything other than what they are. [NetGalley ARC]
Content Warnings
Graphic: Fatphobia, Vomit, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Self harm
kristinv20's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
i got this book and literally less than a week later got diagnosed with disordered eating patterns, so i decided to hold off on reading it until i got everything sorted out personally and that was a good decision. it's very well written, but extremely visceral and would not have been good for me two months ago (or maybe it would've smacked me out of it, who's to say). Kazdin does a really great job exploring diet culture, the recovery-industrial complex, and the effects of eating disorders in her personal life. her prose makes this lean more toward the memoir side of nonfiction, which has the benefit of feeling more accessible but the negative effect of sometimes obfuscating scientific information and allowing the author's bias into areas that could've remained objective. i would've appreciated a bit more on some of the scientific background, both on actual eating disorders and on their mechanisms of treatment--Kazdin lets her own personal experiences really color her depictions of treatments and therapies, and while that's effective in showing what she went through it could scare people off therapies that would be beneficial for them. overall this was a really fascinating exploration of diet culture, and while there's areas it could improve on i found it very solid overall.
arc provided by St. Martin's and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
arc provided by St. Martin's and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming and Eating disorder
Moderate: Vomit, Infertility, Alcoholism, Medical trauma, and Mental illness