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 sw imming in a mermaid's tail. Her w ork has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Scientific American and many other publications. She also w rites the popular anti-diet new sletter Burnt Toast and hosts the Burnt Toast Podcast.
<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and ground-breaking book that will transform the conversation about health and size.</p><div><br></div>
