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This program is read by the author

Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting Emmy Awardwinning journalist Cole Kazdin reveals that disordered eating is an epidemic crisis killing millions of women

Women of all ages struggle with disordered eating preoccupation with food and body anxiety Journalist Cole Kazdin was one such woman and she set out to see if the impossibility of her own full recovery from an eating disorder was all in her head Interviewing women across the country as well as the worlds most renowned researchers she discovered that most people with eating disorders never receive treatmentthe fact that she did made her one of the lucky ones

Kazdin takes us to the doorstep of the diet industry and research community exposing the flawed systems that claim to be helping us and revealing disordered eating for the crisis that it is a mental illness with the second highest mortality rate after opioidrelated deaths that no one wants to talk about Along the way she identifies new treatments not yet available to the general public grass roots movements to correct racial disparities in care and strategies for navigating true health while still living in a dysfunctional world

What would it feel like to be free To feel gorgeous in your body not ruminate about food feel ease at meals exercise with no regard for caloriesburned To never making a disparaging comment about your body again even silently to yourself Who can help us with this We can

Whats Eating Us is an urgent battle cry coupled with stories and strategies about what works and how to finally healfor real

A Macmillan Audio production from St Martins Essentials