Reviews for Hunger Pains: From Fad Diets to Eating Disorders-What Every Woman Needs to Know About Food, Dieting, and Self-Concept

The average rating for Hunger Pains: From Fad Diets to Eating Disorders-What Every Woman Needs to Know About Food, Dieting, and Self-Concept based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-21 00:00:00 James Barnhart Mary Pipher has such clarity and insight to her research and her writing. There were parts of this book were quite disturbing and difficult to get through because of the subject matter. That and a very hectic month is why it took so long to finish this, because let's face it I can and have read a book this slender in about 2 hours of uninterrupted reading. The part I found most enlightening was the last chapter having to do with changing our culture, the reasons why our culture has bought into lookism. Something she traces back to our fragmented and disconnected society. She says in past generations of small town life, you knew your neighbors, your cashier at the grocery store, your bank teller, knew their family, knew about them. But now we don't so the only way to recognize anything about the people we meet is entirely on appearances. And we also make judgments about people by appearance and thinks because of that, and especially knowing the type of judgments made based on appearance is why so many women have eating issues. Fascinating, and very likely true.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-13 00:00:00 Michael De luca Eye opening. Fresh perspective on how culture has affected the way we view our bodies, being "over weight" and obesity in America. I will never see weight the same way again (mine or others) and I will raise my children differently. Being more aware of our culture's prejudice against the over weight and better understanding eating disorders gives me more compassion and personal body awareness and where I use food in an unhealthy way as well.