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The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America (utgåvan 2018)

av Virginia Sole-Smith (Författare)

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Visiting kitchen tables around America, this timely volume explores today's toxic food culture, telling the stories of those who are struggling with food issues and providing insight into how to feel good about food. An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job a mother has. But for too many of us, food now feels dangerous. We parse every bite we eat as good or bad, and judge our own worth accordingly. When her newborn daughter stopped eating after a medical crisis, Virginia Sole-Smith spent two years teaching her how to feel safe around food again-and in the process, realized just how many of us are struggling to do the same thing. The Eating Instinct visits kitchen tables around America to tell Sole-Smith's own story, as well as the stories of women recovering from weight loss surgery, of people who eat only nine foods, of families with unlimited grocery budgets and those on food stamps. Every struggle is unique. But Sole-Smith shows how they're also all products of our modern food culture. And they're all asking the same questions: How did I learn to eat this way' Why is it so hard to feel good about food' And how can I make it better'… (mer)
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Titel:The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
Författare:Virginia Sole-Smith (Författare)
Info:Henry Holt and Co. (2018), 304 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
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I came into this book with high hopes of a book that would help root out why, as a feminist, as somebody who's read a lot about HAES, and as somebody who honestly is not even fat, I'm still insecure about my body size and what I eat. Why do so many people (especially women) have so much anxiety about what we put on our fork? How can we go back to the days of carefree eating of our youth (if there even were such days)?

When the author started spending a lot of time talking about getting children to eat, I thought "this must be the time where the author starts talking about those carefree youthful eating days!" but it turned out to be a lot of discussion about parents who have a hard time feeding children for whatever reason (medical trauma, pickiness) and there were a lot of stories but never really anything that created a thesis or brought all of the narratives together. I wanted to know: okay, when does the picky eating start? Why? Does it relate to our anxieties as we get older? But the focus on a few extreme individual cases means that the stories remained disconnected and weren't generalized to the experience of everyday folks.

Discussion of eating in adults similarly centered around extreme behavior. Picky eating that could be borderline eating disorders. And again, while there was a look into why these individual cases of picky eating occurred, there was no look into the insecurities of human adults eating in general. So I don't think this is a book about everyday people struggling with anxiety about putting food in their mouths. It's a look at the most extreme ends of the scale, without trying to bridge the gap at all.

My biggest issue with this book was how the author attempted to give information in an unbiased way (nominally a good idea), but which meant she wound up ignoring one side of many arguments. In discussing weight loss she glosses over how the diet industry is a multi-billion dollar industry, there is no scientific evidence that weight loss is even POSSIBLE, much less necessary for health. But she continues to discuss how people want to lose weight and it's possible for some (like, less than 15% of people who diet, according to one study) so we must all want to lose weight, right? Which winds up feeding (ha! I made a pun!) into that anxiety that I wanted help combating. If, at the end of the day, we hold up a 120 pound, 5'5" woman as the ideal, then no wonder people have completely messed up relationships with food. Like, that idea wasn't pushed back against *at all* in this book, which I thought was a totally missed opportunity. The author gives an entire chapter to discussing stomach amputation and has one sentence about how most of the people who go through the procedure wind up gaining all that weight back anyway. And I was glad she provided a single quote that I've read before, along the lines of how an intervention that is prescribed for fat people is the same thing that's considered disordered eating in skinny people. But she never uncritically thinks about that sentence! How messed up is it that we are encouraging anorexia in people just because of their body size? And there is no evidence that the outcome of what is encouraged in fat people will lead to an objectively better existence (positive health outcomes, regardless of the body size). You can't just say "both sides have good points 🤷🏻‍♀️" when one side is arguing for the unscientific elimination of fat bodies.

Also, and I hate to be the annoying vegan, but I really hate it when people say that veganism is a "diet." Sure, for some people, veganism is a diet much the way gluten-free has become one as well. But for others, it is a way of life. It is how some people honor our bodies, animals rights not to be eaten, and our environment (not to mention public health: COVID-19 never would have happened if people didn't eat meat). So to be labeled as some kind of "fringe movement" along with other healthy eating in general, I found to be disingenuous. Even though I have a lot of issues with the healthy food movement in general (fatphobia, racism), there's a good reason that the alternative food movement started. There was no critical look into the food industry in this book, other than a couple sentences about food advertising to communities of color. To throw the baby out with the bathwater is doing a disservice to the benefits we have gotten from food activists. It's important that people have advocated for getting things that are now as routine as labels on food. To just say that everyone who eats kale is a crunchy, Gweneth Paltrow clone, is rather insulting. That kind of attitude permeated from these pages, which again, I found to be ironic about a book nominally about how people have really screwed up relationships with food.

In short, I probably would not recommend this book to anyone. I don't know what the thesis was, so you're probably not going to feel any type of resolution from this book. Maybe read it if you're interested in reading about the most extreme cases of food pickiness in children and adults, and if you're not triggered by very graphic descriptions of medical interventions. ( )
  lemontwist | Apr 10, 2021 |
The book starts with the authors daughters eating issues after birth. From the struggles that Sole-Smith deals with takes her to look at eating and how it is viewed in America what we buy, how we eat, picky eaters, eating disorders, clean food, junk food and the toll it takes on people. there are also stories of people with various types of reading disorders and how they affect their lives. ( )
  foof2you | Aug 17, 2020 |
This very well written and well researched book covers different issues related to food and eating, including nutritional disparities among Black Americans, ARFID, and gastric bypass surgery. The author bookends these topics with her own affecting experiences of parenting her young daughter, who struggled with feeding and eating as a consequence of a serious heart condition. I wish the author spoke more explicitly about feminism (almost all her interview subjects are women), but otherwise I think this book is perfect. Recommended for all libraries. ( )
  librarianarpita | May 16, 2020 |
Discusses all the different ways eating can sometimes be anything other than a simple, pleasurable, nourishing experience. The impetus for the book was the author's baby born with a congenital heart defect, which required surgery and for her to be put on a feeding tube as an infant; Violet then refused to eat for many months, even after the tube should no longer have been needed. It was an arduous journey getting Violet to eat. This drove the author to examine other ways and reasons humans may not or can not do such a simple act as eating; she discusses babies with adverse reactions to milk, anorexics, severely "picky" adult eaters, people too poor to eat properly, and of course just plain women born and bred to this diet-crazy, thin-obsessed culture. It was absorbing. I'm not usually into "kid stuff," but she told Violet's story and the other baby/kid/parent stories in such a way that made even me interested. ( )
  Tytania | Feb 17, 2020 |
This was a good explanation of the effects of the obsession with good v. bad food that permeates advertising, health websites and science news. The case studies of individuals with different eating issues were interesting. ( )
  beach85 | Mar 27, 2019 |
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Visiting kitchen tables around America, this timely volume explores today's toxic food culture, telling the stories of those who are struggling with food issues and providing insight into how to feel good about food. An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today's toxic food culture. Food is supposed to sustain and nourish us. Eating well, any doctor will tell you, is the best way to take care of yourself. Feeding well, any human will tell you, is the most important job a mother has. But for too many of us, food now feels dangerous. We parse every bite we eat as good or bad, and judge our own worth accordingly. When her newborn daughter stopped eating after a medical crisis, Virginia Sole-Smith spent two years teaching her how to feel safe around food again-and in the process, realized just how many of us are struggling to do the same thing. The Eating Instinct visits kitchen tables around America to tell Sole-Smith's own story, as well as the stories of women recovering from weight loss surgery, of people who eat only nine foods, of families with unlimited grocery budgets and those on food stamps. Every struggle is unique. But Sole-Smith shows how they're also all products of our modern food culture. And they're all asking the same questions: How did I learn to eat this way' Why is it so hard to feel good about food' And how can I make it better'

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