Since writing The Eating Instinct, I think a lot about what makes someone an “expert.” Doctors are held up as weight and diet experts even though the subjects are covered pretty minimally in med school. Dietitians are taught about …
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Since writing The Eating Instinct, I think a lot about what makes someone an “expert.” Doctors are held up as weight and diet experts even though the subjects are covered pretty minimally in med school. Dietitians are taught about …
For #feedingtubeawarenessweek, I thought I’d re-share the New York Times Magazine story that started this chapter of my career (and led to the first chapter of my book). I wrote around and around food, diets, wellness, and body image …
It’s easy to blame our current fat phobia on the Kardashians shilling for Fit Tea, or Gwyneth Paltrow with her recipes for Ayurvedic golden milk and spirulina-infused smoothies. After all, these women embody the unrealistic physical ideal we’re told to …
So that pile of papers is…my book!
In the biz, we call this “First Pass.” The manuscript has been revised, copy-edited, fact-checked and typeset… so this was the first time I got to read my words on pages that look …
First, a little book update: Last week, I reached that stage of research where you (or at least I) start to despair that none of it is making any sense and everything I thought I knew was wrong. I’ve been …
This week, I’m thinking a lot about sugar. It’s almost Halloween, which means all of the (mostly) moms in the online parenting groups I follow have been despairing about how to manage the coming candy deluge. There’s a lot of …
An exploration, both personal and deeply reported, of how we learn to eat in today’s toxic food culture.
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