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A review by boxerrebellion1
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
1.0
Full Disclosure: Goodreads Giveaway Winner
What a load of codswallop.
What was good: No one should be shamed because of their weight or body type.
What was bad, I mean really bad: everything else.
I actually went back and checked. This is my 539th book. My average is 3 stars. I have assigned 6% two stars, and less than 1% (two or three books) one star. I would have assigned 0 stars for this if that was a recordable score.
No one should be bullied or shamed about their body. Full. Stop. Periodt. (my students pronounce it with a t in instances like this). However, even intimating that any eating behavior is healthy is a criminal disservice to readers. Weight can be tied to health, if it is causing stress to joints (which it can and does), if it is stressing organs like the heart (which it can and does). Salt can be tied to blood in a small percentage of patients - and those patients should be identified and appropriately counseled. However, to pretend that a diet consisting mostly of refined sugar and fat in highly processed foods is healthy is absurd. To insist that it is not tied to weight/health is delusional.
When someone tries to defend allowing a child to eat as stick of butter as a healthy dinner... it's time to call the guys with the butterfly nets.
What a load of codswallop.
What was good: No one should be shamed because of their weight or body type.
What was bad, I mean really bad: everything else.
I actually went back and checked. This is my 539th book. My average is 3 stars. I have assigned 6% two stars, and less than 1% (two or three books) one star. I would have assigned 0 stars for this if that was a recordable score.
No one should be bullied or shamed about their body. Full. Stop. Periodt. (my students pronounce it with a t in instances like this). However, even intimating that any eating behavior is healthy is a criminal disservice to readers. Weight can be tied to health, if it is causing stress to joints (which it can and does), if it is stressing organs like the heart (which it can and does). Salt can be tied to blood in a small percentage of patients - and those patients should be identified and appropriately counseled. However, to pretend that a diet consisting mostly of refined sugar and fat in highly processed foods is healthy is absurd. To insist that it is not tied to weight/health is delusional.
When someone tries to defend allowing a child to eat as stick of butter as a healthy dinner... it's time to call the guys with the butterfly nets.