Virginia Sole-Smith -- “The Eating Instinct” Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America

Virginia Sole-Smith“The Eating Instinct” Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in AmericaFood, literally and figuratively, shapes our lives. See how nothing connected with food happens in a vacuum as Virginia shares her story and the stories of others who have struggles with eating and its entangled emotions of shame, fear, and aspiration in our modern diet culture.From her own daughter’s traumatic feeding- tube “eating”, to weight obsessed diets, comfort foods, living on food stamps, and the alternative clean eating, organic food movement, Virginia shares her research and insights on how to navigate the maze of difficulties and moral judgment we place on food and ourselves, and how to relearn to trust our innate instincts again to eat for health and pleasure.Website: www.virginiasolesmith.comFacebook: www.facebook.com/virginiasolesmithTwitter@v_solesmith