Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt In America

This book delves into how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture. Despite food’s role in sustaining and nourishing us, many of us perceive it as dangerous. We judge our worth based on our food choices. Author Virginia Sole-Smith spent two years teaching her newborn daughter to feel safe around food, realizing many others struggle with the same.

This title explores diverse stories, from women recovering from weight loss surgery to those with unlimited grocery budgets and those on food stamps. Each struggle is unique, but they’re all products of our modern food culture. They ask the same questions: how did we learn to eat this way? Why is it so hard to feel good about food? And how can we make it better?

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