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

5.0

i caveat this review by acknowledging that this book could be triggering to those in recovery from/actively battling an eating disorder. while i don’t identify as such, i still feel like i got so much out of this book - from information about just how undeserved ED treatment is to the disparities of BIPOC women living with EDs to different steps to take to remedy disordered thoughts about your weight, i feel like any reader could get something from this book. the way the author used her personal experience and research to reframe some of the ways we think about our bodies absolutely made me reconsider my own relationship with my body and the questionable ways i’ve treated it in the past. easily one of my favorite non fictions this year. (coincidentally, i downloaded/started the Noom app the day before i started reading this because it’s a free benefit at work and i thought i’d see what it was all about and maybe trim down a bit. needless to say, i deleted the app pretty early into reading this book