Fat Talk

Name: Fat Talk
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781804183106
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Coming of age in diet culture – ‘A brave and radical book’ The Observer

By Virginia Sole-Smith

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Summary

Fat Talk by Virginia Sole-Smith navigates the complex landscape of body image and weight bias in parenting. It delves into how conversations about weight impact children and offers insights into breaking harmful cycles. The book aims to reframe how we discuss body image, encouraging a healthier and more inclusive approach for families.
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This book may appeal to you if you're interested in navigating the complexities of body image discussions, especially as they relate to parenting and family dynamics. It provides insights into promoting body positivity and encourages healthier conversations around weight and self-esteem with children.

Fat Talk

Change the way you talk about food, weight, and self-worth, forever.

Change the way you talk about food, weight, and self-worth, forever.

Description

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

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

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Health & Fitness Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Self-Help & Personal Development Virginia Sole-Smith

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.