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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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
Sonya Renee Taylor
Paper Book
"To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves...'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace."  --Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American...
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works
Evelyn Tribole
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.
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Sabrina Strings
Audiobook
Body Talk: How to Embrace Your Body and Start Living Your Best Life
Katie Sturino
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...
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture
Virginia Sole-Smith
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...
Big Girl: How I Gave Up Dieting and Got a Life
Kelsey Miller
Ebook
A hilarious and inspiring memoir about one young woman's journey to find a better path to both physical and mental health. At twenty-nine, Kelsey Miller had done it all: crash diets, healthy diets, and nutritionist-prescribed "eating plans," which are diets that you pay more...

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