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Fat Talk
Coming of age in diet culture โ โA brave and radical bookโ The Observer
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We live in a world designed to make us hate our bodies. By the time children start school, most have learned that 'fat' is bad. As they get older, many pursue thinness to survive in a society that ties their value to their size. Parents worry both about the risks of their kids fixating on unrealistic beauty standards - and about them becoming fat. Meanwhile, multibillion-dollar industries thrive on our insecurities, and the medical system pushes weight loss at almost any cost.
Talking to researchers, doctors, and activists, as well as parents and young people, Virginia Sole-Smith lays bare how diet culture has perpetuated a crisis of disordered eating and body hatred. She exposes our internalised fatphobia and shows why we need to let go of shame and start supporting young people in the bodies they have.
Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and ground-breaking book that will transform the conversation about health and size.
Praise for Virginia Sole-Smith:
'Sole-Smith writes with warmth and insight about the sheer complexity of eating today'. - Bee Wilson, author of First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith is praised for being fearless and game-changing, offering fresh insights into parenting and family dynamics around body image and food. Readers find it a visionary work that many wish had been available to previous generations. It encourages a new way of thinking about the often complicated emotions tied to body image and eating.
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ISBN: 9781804183106
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 April 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bonnier Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 23.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 388g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of Fat Talk: Coming of age in diet culture and The Eating Instinct. As a journalist, she has reported from kitchen tables and grocery stores, graduated from beauty school, and gone swimming in a mermaid's tail. Her work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Scientific American and many other publications. She also writes the popular anti-diet newsletter Burnt Toast and hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast.
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