Down with Diet Culture

Books that discuss diet culture, the harm it can inflict, and how to overcome it.
Updated October 2, 2022
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Every body yoga : let go of fear, get on the mat, love your body
Stanley, Jessamyn
Paper Book
From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes. It's a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. It's a book for readers already doing yoga,...
The f*ck it diet
Dooner, Caroline
Ebook
The anti-diet bible that calls time's up to poisonous beliefs about food, weight and worth. DIETING DOESN'T WORK Not long term. In fact, our bodies are hardwired against it. But each time our diets fail, instead of considering that maybe our ridiculously low-carb diet is the...
The body is not an apology : the power of radical self-love
Taylor, Sonya Renee
Paper Book
In a revolutionary departure from everything we've been told about body-positivity, The Body Is Not an Apology founder Sonya Renee Taylor explicitly makes the connection between radical self-acceptance and social justice. Systems of oppression thrive off of our inability to make...
Intuitive eating : a revolutionary anti-diet approach
Tribole, Evelyn
Paper Book
Make peace with food. Free yourself from chronic dieting forever. Rediscover the pleasures of eating. The go-to resource--now fully revised and updated--for building a healthy body image and making peace with food, once and for all.
Body talk : how to embrace your body and start living your best life
Sturino, Katie
Paper Book
Learn to love yourself and your body with this interactive guide from the "shame-free, fun, cheerful, and no-nonsense" (Bustle) body acceptance advocate and influencer who founded Megababe beauty. "Brilliant, hilarious, adorably illustrated."-Goop Can...
More than a body : your body is an instrument, not an ornament
Kite, Lexie
Paper Book
"An indispensable resource for women of all ages, this is a guide to help us better connect to ourselves, to value ourselves, to love ourselves, and ultimately, to be ourselves." --Chelsea Clinton Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is...
Fat talk : parenting in the age of diet culture
Sole-Smith, Virginia
Paper Book
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...
How to raise an intuitive eater : raising the next generation with food and body confidence
Brooks, Sumner
Paper Book
With the wisdom of Intuitive Eating, a manifesto for parents to help them reject diet culture and raise the next generation to have a healthy relationship with food and their bodies. Kids are born intuitive eaters. Well-meaning parents, influenced by the diet culture that...
Body of truth : how science, history, and culture drive our obsession with weight-- and what we can do about it
Brown, Harriet
Paper Book
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, "I called you crazy. I called you a bitch. But I never...
Body respect : what conventional health books get wrong, leave out, and just plain fail to understand about weight
Bacon, Linda
Ebook
Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. You've heard it before: there's a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes,...
Eat up!
Tandoh, Ruby
Paper Book
TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Think about that first tickle of hunger in your stomach. A moment ago, you could have been thinking about anything, but now it's thickly buttered marmite toast, a frosty scoop of ice cream straight from the tub, some creamy, cheesy scrambled eggs or a fuzzy, perfectly...

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