Fed Up (How to Dismantle Diet Culture, Stop Fearing Fat, and Love Your Body)

A new book for young adult readers, adapted from Virginia Sole-Smith's New York Times Bestseller FAT TALK, about the pervasive harms of diet culture and anti-fat bias and how readers can protect and care for themselves.

By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids have learned that “fat” is bad. As we get older, we learn to pursue thinness in order to survive in a world that ties our body size to our value. Multibillion-dollar industries thrive on our fear of being fat.

America’s focus on solving the “childhood obesity epidemic” has perpetuated a crisis of disordered eating and body hatred in young people. This is often reinforced at school, at home, and at the doctor's office. Author Virginia Sole-Smith exposes our society’s internalized fatphobia, helping readers understand how to recognize, navigate, and dismantle toxic attitudes and social systems, and how to appreciate the bodies we have.