The Eating Instinct
The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America takes a broader look at how diet culture disconnects us from our own hunger and intuition. Journalist Virginia Sole-Smith weaves together science, storytelling, and lived experience to show how fear and control have replaced trust and pleasure in our eating lives.
Through powerful reporting, she explores how cultural ideals of health and thinness distort our relationships with food, and how we can begin to reclaim that relationship on our own terms.
This book is for anyone who’s ever felt guilt around eating or confusion about what’s “healthy enough.” It’s a reminder that nourishment is both physical and emotional—and that listening to your body is a radical act of care.
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The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
“Your eating instincts aren’t broken. They’ve just been buried under years of diet culture noise.”
