Virginia Sole-Smith writes about feminism, body image and health.

“Food has become complicated for too many of us because of our misogynistic diet culture. But we can learn to feed ourselves and our families on our own terms.”

Virginia Sole-Smith writes about feminism, body image and health.

“Food has become complicated for too many of us because of our misogynistic diet culture. But we can learn to feed ourselves and our families on our own terms.”

The Eating Instinct

Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.

“A deeply moving book about the power of appetite to shape all of our lives. Sole-Smith writes with warmth and insight about the sheer complexity of eating today – and how this most basic and joyful of human activities can be relearned.”

— Bee Wilson, food writer and author of First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

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New Year, Still Anti-Diet

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Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a restful holiday break and is ready to save the world now because 2020, we’ve got work to do. But first, a look backwards.Here are my favorite things I wrote last
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On Being a Good Feminist

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A few weeks ago, America’s Drunk Moms (Hoda and Jenna) decided to intermittently fast their way through the holiday season and we’ve been subjected to all manner of diet culture-y banality from them e
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Kale Is Not the Goal

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I talked about this on Instagram recently and it seemed to resonate with a lot of you...The vast majority of the people writing/studying/advocating about how to feed kids are operating from the premis
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THE PODCAST

The podcast about the joys (and meltdowns!) of feeding our families and ourselves.

Hosted by best friends and writers Amy Palanjian (creator of the popular blog Yummy Toddler Food) and Virginia Sole-Smith (author of The Eating Instinct).

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Feminist writer. Author of THE EATING INSTINCT @henryholtbooks. Frequent contributor to @parents & @nytparenting and co-host of #ComfortFoodPodcast.

Reposting this from my girl @yummytoddlerfood beca

Thanks for sharing this last week @drcolleenreichm

This disconnect is so hard to articulate, but it’s an important difference in how diet culture targets according to gender. Women (and others in marginalized bodies) know we’re supposed to bemoan and strive to change our bodies. Men (especially straight/cis/white men) aren’t supposed to care about their bodies and that makes it okay for them to denigrate their bodies.
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@aaronfloresrdn had so many great insights for my story on men and diet culture. Read it on @medium’s @elemental here (or swipe up in my Stories): https://elemental.medium.com/the-pandemic-is-heightening-diet-culture-for-men-5af2c1ccfc8e
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#riotsnotdiets #haes #dietculturelies #menondiets #if #keto #intuitiveeating #allbodiesaregoodbodies #dietculturedropout

In my latest for @medium @elemental, I fully own t

We have the worst childhood hunger problem of any

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