The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

Real Simple Best Book of 2018

From the bestselling, acclaimed author of Fat Talk comes an urgent 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, a...