![]() ![]() The idea that thinness equals personal worth and social success is everywhere. ![]() “Weight stigma is deeply embedded into our culture,” she writes. The author discusses how diet and weight-loss businesses are rebranding themselves as being about good health, a misleading ploy to continue to grow an industry approaching a valuation of $300 billion. Kazdin has struggled with a disorder herself, and her book is as much her personal story as an examination of body anxiety. “Over 90 percent of women in the United States are dissatisfied with their bodies,” she writes, and nearly 30 million people “suffer from an eating disorder.” Furthermore, eating disorders have the second-highest mortality rate of any mental illness, on a par with opioid deaths, and the problem crosses socio-economic lines. Eating disorders are a massive yet often hidden problem, writes the author, who speaks with the insight of experience.Įarly on, Kazdin, a four-time Emmy Award–winning TV journalist, cites some remarkable, frightening statistics. ![]()
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