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Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

Name: Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
Brand: Henry Holt & Company
SKU: 9781250831217
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Contributors:

Virginia Sole-Smith

Publisher:

Henry Holt & Company

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Psychology, Social Science, Family & Relationships

Book Subcategory:

Developmental, Sociology, Parenting

Book Topic:

Child

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Release Date:

2023-04-25

ISBN 13:

9781250831217

Weight:

1.25 lbs

Size:

8.60 x 6.40 x 2.10 inches

Pages:

384

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Book Riot best book of 2023
A Science Friday best book of 2023
An Audible best well-being audiobook of 2023

By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that "fat" is bad. By middle school, more than a quarter of them have gone on a diet. What are parents supposed to do?

Kids learn, as we've all learned, that thinness is a survival strategy in a world that equates body size and value. Parents worry if their kids care too much about being thin, but even more about the consequences if they aren't. And multibillion-dollar industries thrive on this fear of fatness. We've fought the "war on obesity" for over forty years and Americans aren't thinner or happier with their bodies. But it's not our kids--or their weight--who need fixing.

In this illuminating narrative, journalist Virginia Sole-Smith exposes the daily onslaught of fatphobia and body shaming that kids face from school, sports, doctors, diet culture, and parents themselves--and offers strategies for how families can change the conversation around weight, health, and self-worth.

Fat Talk is a stirring, deeply researched, and groundbreaking book that will help parents learn to reckon with their own body biases, identify diet culture, and empower their kids to navigate this challenging landscape. Sole-Smith draws on her extensive reporting and interviews with dozens of parents and kids to offer a provocative new approach for thinking about food and bodies, and a way for us all to work toward a more weight-inclusive world.

About the Author
Virginia Sole-Smith is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Slate, and Elle. She is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America and also writes the Burnt Toast newsletter. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband, two daughters, a cat, a dog, and way too many houseplants.

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