Anti-Diet

“Anti-Diet offers a much-needed unbrainwashing for anyone feeling stress, stigma, or shame about their appearance, diet, or activity levels. Even the socially conscious reader will have an aha moment when Harrison debunks something they have accepted as truth. […] An approachable read for anyone ready to untangle their eating habits from their self-worth.”

—Outside

“Anti-Diet is the ‘diet’ book you need to read headed into 2020. If you’ve been gearing up to embark on yet another diet, protocol, reset or reboot come Jan. 1, I have a different suggestion: Hit the pause button on that plan and read Christy Harrison’s new book, Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating. Harrison, a registered dietitian and journalist, thoroughly and elegantly lays out the strange origins of modern diet culture […] then presents a path to truly holistic health that’s based on self-care, not self-control.”

— The Seattle Times

“Nutritionist Harrison, host of the podcast Food Psych, debuts with this impassioned and articulate plea for readers to reject ‘diet culture’ and reclaim their lives. [...] Harrison’s enlightening, heretical tract provides a new perspective on the dieting narrative which many take as gospel truth.”

— Publishers Weekly

“Brilliant! Anti-Diet should be required reading for every health professional and in every health-related class. Harrison bridges the gap between intuitive eating and social-justice issues in an engaging and compassionate way. She exposes toxic diet culture—its evolution, who profits by it, and how it hurts you. Written with a friendly touch of sass, Anti-Diet is richly sourced with studies, stats, and expert interviews. I highly recommend this book to help you dismantle diet culture and to heal your own relationship with food, mind, and body.”

— Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, co-author of Intuitive Eating

“This well-researched, well-referenced, yet accessible new book will give you all you need to know about diet culture and how to challenge it. Its facts will give you the ammunition to take a deep, hard look at how you may have been sucked into diet culture and will give you the courage to pull yourself out of it and repair your relationship with food and your body. I am asking all of my clients to read this, because it is so powerful and compelling. Every practitioner in the fields of eating disorders, nutrition, and psychology will find this book to be one of the most important in their library, and every person who is not a practitioner in these fields will find that this book will change their life.”

— Elyse Resch, MS, RDN, CEDRD, co-author of Intuitive Eating

“If you’ve ever wondered how we landed in this current wellness-obsessed, sugar-and-gluten-fearing moment of entrenched food anxiety, Anti-Diet is a must-read. Christy Harrison traces the history of modern diet culture, busts deeply rooted myths, and exposes the inherent biases of modern weight research. She also offers clear, practical advice for all of us trying to disentangle ourselves from diets and make peace with food.”

— Virginia Sole-Smith, author of The Eating Instinct

“Most diet and wellness books claim to address mind, body and spirit, but in fact they are just about body. Thank goodness for Christy Harrison, whose empathetic book reveals oppressive diet culture for what it truly is, and offers a genuinely holistic alternative.”

— Alan Levinovitz, Ph.D., author of The Gluten Lie

“This book will change the way you see the world and live your life forever. Thank God for Christy Harrison.”

— Jes Baker, author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls

“VICTORY! Christy Harrison epically takes down diet culture and explains why the cards are stacked against all of us who still believe a smaller body is the only way to improve health and create a better life. Diet culture sucks, but you can take meaningful action: Read this book. Stop dieting. Start being good to yourself.”

— Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN, author of Body Kindness

“The most essential book to read in 2020. Christy manages to write a comprehensive history of our dieting culture which sets the stage for deepening our understanding of the fraught and highly problematic dieting landscape we find ourselves in today. With sharp insight, Christy digs through mountains of research to make a case against dieting and spells out all of the insidious ways “diet culture” lives on and in us today. While most books are either cultural critique or self-help book, Christy manages to do both. She masterfully paints a cultural narrative while also providing you with the concrete tools to create a different way of relating to food and your body. This book is essential reading.” —Marci Evans, MS, RD, CEDRD

“As compassionate as it is scholarly, Christy Harrison’s Anti-Diet goes deep to expose the sordid underbelly of diet culture, but it doesn’t leave you there. With healing-oriented strategies that address our physical, emotional, and social selves, you will finish this book armed with ways to reclaim all that dieting has taken from you, and gain a new perspective that is empowering and sustainable.”

— Jenna Hollenstein, MS, RDN, CDN, author of Eat To Love

“This must-read book just came out in January, the perfect timing to interrupt so many of the 'resolutions' and the culture that promotes weight loss in the New Year. Christy crafts very effective arguments, coupled with the science and history that shows the problematic past and present of fatphobia and diet culture.” —Matt McGorry, actor (How to Get Away with Murder, Orange Is the New Black)