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A well-researched and cogent argument for more rational scientific approaches and humane cultural attitudes toward health, eating, and the concept of being overweight. Written in an approachable style and peppered with short first-person interview narrativesA solid general overview of the scientific and cultural issues surrounding fatness and weight loss with an excellent starter bibliography. Library Journal Brown s conclusionswill likely shock most readers and make them rethink much of what they assume, what they think they know about weight and fatThis book may be just what most of us need, so we can be kinder to ourselves and others and truly take care of the bodies we have. It s a revelation. San Francisco Book Review Well + Good, 2/1/15 A must-read whether you're the most confident woman in the room (or bikini) or can't remember the last time you had a nice thought about your body. (One of the 10 Healthy Books You've Got to Read this Year ) A must-read for anyone ready to start shaking this fat = bad, thin = good obsessionBrown s book can help you love your body now. Bustle Brown takes on fad diets, unattainable body ideals and the misconceptions that shape how women view themselves. Parade The introduction from Harriet Brown s new book is enough to scare the hell out of you. Finally. And for good. Examiner.com Brown systematically unpacks what s been offered as the truth about weight and healthBrown tackles the myths and realities of the obesity epidemic exposing the biggest lies driving the rhetoric of obesity. Philadelphia Tribune Debunk[s] the dieting crazeInspiring? Yes, especially the author s concrete suggestions about weight, health and beauty. Hudson Valley News Exceptionally well written, organized and presentedImpressively informed and informativeThis is critically important reading for anyone and everyone that has ever struggled with the emotional impacts, social stigmas, and health issues related to being overweight. Midwest Book Review More than a health guide: it's an important consideration for any social issues shelf and blends science, history and health in an examination of changing precedents for body image. Midwest Book Review [A]n inspired and inspiring book about our cultural obsession with weight, our fetishization of thinness, and out demonization of fat. Body of Truth is a compelling read, one that will make you rethink your attitudes towards your body and your healthand, in the process, enable you to enjoy your life a bit more and count calories a bit less. Daphne Merkin, novelist, cultural critic, and author of The Fame Lunches At turns harrowing and heartbreaking, Body of Truth is ultimately life-affirming and always, always brave and honest. A book every womanno, every one should read. Ann Hood, author of The Obituary Writer and An Italian Wife Extensive research, which cumulatively starts to take holdBrown weaves in history, feminist theory, and studies into the nature vs. nurture argument about beauty ideals to give a well-considered look at why it is that we so often hate the bodies we're inBrown's writing is rousingThis is not a tepid, guarded book. It makes its arguments and makes them with forceBrown's book demands reconsideration of weight-based beliefs and principles, of how we fundamentally perceive and talk about weight. Santa Fe New Mexican Brown s argument is an incendiary one: Stop the useless yo-yo dieting and accept yourself as you are. Book Notes An excellent bookmust-reading for everyone who has spent their life obsessing about every bite of food they eat Canada Free Press [Brown] argues powerfully for the need to push back against weight-shaming. She advocates cogently for a new paradigm to transform how we think about our bodies and our body image. In addition, Brown aptly captures how our thin-at-any-cost culture promotes an obsessive, warped relationship with the daily nourishment we can t live without but whose caloric impact we often come to fear and mistrust. Psychotherapy Networker Brown covers a wide range of topics beneath the umbrella of weight and weight lossBrown writes with the credibility of someone who has done her research, but with the voice of a peer. Radish Argumentative and determinedly one-sided, Harriet Brown s Body of Truth is a highly useful corrective to the veritable flood of books warning people to watch their weight, change their weight, balance their weight, and pay constant attention to their weight in order to be healthy, fulfilled and happy. It is a book that will surely be read with relief, if not glee, by the legions of people who are weight-focusedincluding those that are, yes, obsessedbut who are nevertheless unhappy in their own skin and unconvinced that all the dieting, careful food choices, and constant attention to weight have done them any goodBody of Truth is essentially an extended argument that it is OK to be OK with the body you have. InfoDad blog [Brown s] book tackles the myths and realities of the obesity epidemic and exposes the biggest lies driving the rhetoric of obesity[It] offers ways to think about weight and health with more common sense, accuracy, and respect[An] excellent bookRead it and learn the truth. Bookviews blog You ll see that everything you thought you knew about weight may be a big fat lieRead Body of Truth. You may have nothing to lose. The Bookworm Sez [A] quest to learn how we learned to loathe our bodies. Energy Times Absolutely recommend this book for so many reasons! Healthy, brilliant, and really eye opening! Creating Serenity A take no prisoners broadside in an area full of complexities and unanswered questionsMs. Brown makes lots of good points about our individual and collective obsession with weight and about the insistence of many that thinner means healthier and fatter means sicker. While she does all this she writes candidly of her own struggles with her sizeBrown is forceful and eloquent. W.A. Bogart blog

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Harriet Brown is the author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia, which has been translated into several languages and won a Books for a Better Life Award in 2011. She has edited two anthologies and has written for the New York Times Magazine and Tuesday science section, O Magazine, Psychology Today, Prevention, and many other publications. Brown is an associate professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.harrietbrown.commaudsleyparents.orgprojectbodytalk.comTwitter: @HarrietBrown

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