Q: How do I respond when really young kids talk about dieting?
A: I always know it’s time to newsletter a question when I get asked it a bunch of different times. One mom DM-ed me because her 8-year-old was …
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Q: How do I respond when really young kids talk about dieting?
A: I always know it’s time to newsletter a question when I get asked it a bunch of different times. One mom DM-ed me because her 8-year-old was …
In my world, January is usually time to suit up. It’s when diet culture comes at us fast and furious: my inbox is brimming with diet industry press releases, my DMs with people feeling overwhelmed by the New Year, New …
MEDIUM // MAY 2020
Men aren’t part of the body positivity movement, but they need to be.
Sometimes people are surprised to learn that I write so much about eating disorders and food struggles, even though I’ve never had an eating disorder myself. The first answer to that is: I’m a woman who grew up in modern …
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 ever since. When I posted about it…
Well, technically this is last October me, but other than not always having such a nice blow-out, nothing much has changed for me. The baby, on the other hand, is learning to talk. In case you’re new around here, I …
As I’ve been traveling around for the past month, talking about The Eating Instinct with different audiences, one question keeps coming up: But what about sugar?
I’m encouraged by how many people get that dieting doesn’t work. They get …
I posted this pic on Instagram a few weeks ago, of my effort to give our 4-year-old choices she would enjoy (rather than whine about) at snack time. The goal here was not to police her sugar intake or anything …
This week, I’ve been reading Bee Wilson’s First Bite, which is the fairly masterful book everybody asks “have you read…?” when I say I’m writing a book about how we learn to eat. This is actually a reread and …
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
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