Food and You: Everything a Woman Needs to Know about Loving Food - For Better Health, for a Beautiful Body & for Emotional Satisfact

Journalistic in tone, this review of women's relationships to food is aimed at women for whom eating is fraught with anxiety, although many of its topics-dieting, body image, self-esteem, eating disorders, midlife weight gain, breast cancer, cholesterol, heart disease, metabolism, PMS-are common topics of women's magazines and daily papers. The book is organized into five main areas: Food and Your Emotions; Food and Your Health; Food and Your Female Body; Food and Your Weight; and Food and Your Mealtime Strategy (covering shopping, cooking, dining out, snacking and traveling). Having queried hundreds of women about their eating patterns and the meaning of food in their lives, the editors weave some of the stories into the text but rely more on experts, who are heavily quoted: how often to weigh yourself, what to do to stop yourself from bingeing, why cellulite is difficult to get rid of. How-to's and Why's are mixed in to the text, as are health tips and the occasional quiz. While offering little that is not available elsewhere, the book gathers a great deal of information into one easily consulted source. (May)