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jwinchell's review
4.0
I learned a lot from Kazdin’s story about her struggles with anorexia and disordered eating. I like that she intersperses her own story with interviews with friends and researchers. I dog eared a number of pages that I will quote in my journal and reflect upon. I want to love my body, eat intuitively, avoid diet culture, and feel good about myself. But since disordered eating for me started around age 12, I’ve got 34 years of damage to heal.
wagnermelissam's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
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Graphic: Eating disorder
kateyoutka's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
3.25
This is an engaging memoir backed up by research, interviews and fact-based arguments. Any woman who reads this will see herself in it in some capacity, and it was especially poignant to read at the beginning of the year when everyone's making weight loss resolutions.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder
booksxbarbells's review
4.0
This is right up my alley: a well-researched, well-written book about an important topic. The author’s writing is inclusive of diverse perspectives and experiences, and doesn’t pull any punches. I enjoyed this one and would definitely recommend it!
dcd220's review
3.0
This book brings to light the dismal state of eating disorder treatment and recovery. It does an excellent job of interweaving the author's personal ED story and professional or research in the area. However, I was disappointed that some key points about why BMI is trash and more influential factors on health weren't addressed. Regarding BMI, the mathematician who created the calculation intended for it to be used to study populations and explicitly stated that it should not be used on individuals. Clearly the medical community missed that point. He also only used white, European men to create the index. Additionally, in 1998 under pressure from the pharmaceutical industry, the cutoff for the "overweight" category was lowered. Overnight around 29 million Americans suddenly were "overweight." It would have been nice to mention social determinants of health as bigger contributors to health disparities, since so much was put into breaking down the myth that weight plays such a large role.
carolineabeachum's review
4.0
Another book that I have had on my kindle that took me a while to get to and I REGRET.
What's Eating Us attracted my attention because its a topic that I do believe most-to-all women struggle with- the idea of their bodies. Cole Kazdin writes about the topic and surrounding topics- eating disorders, fertility, body image, etc. I really enjoyed how this was informative and also threaded with memoir from the author's own journey. This might not be for everyone, but I particularly liked hearing about her story.
What's Eating Us attracted my attention because its a topic that I do believe most-to-all women struggle with- the idea of their bodies. Cole Kazdin writes about the topic and surrounding topics- eating disorders, fertility, body image, etc. I really enjoyed how this was informative and also threaded with memoir from the author's own journey. This might not be for everyone, but I particularly liked hearing about her story.