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This will be published in November, but it's getting great reviews:
“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli
I vividly remember all the snide comments people made about Valerie Bertinelli from the time she was a cute little girl in a sitcom through her public appearances with Eddie Van Halen. And of course, she had a cooking show which didn't exactly feature low-calorie, low-fat and -carb dishes. But I'd like to peek behind the curtain and learn more. It's got to be illuminating, especially since she had her son Wolfgang be her taster and you could watch his figure getting thicker and him apparently making his life of homemade food a big attraction for his friends.
But she didn't write this book--just the blurb--so I don't know exactly what it's about. It does seem to recommend body-image-acceptance, but I hope that is couple with body health, because its one thing to be comfortable in your body, and quite another to fight against making obesity and overeating okay. We are raised weird by family and corporations who push food down our throats while designing ads claiming their products to be good for us, really, only in comparison to eating a stick of butter for breakfast and swinging by 7-11 for a Big Gulp every day.
IMHO, no one would buy a book about healthy eating unless it were written by a celebrity. With few exceptions, the celebrities who have cooking shows could really lose a few pounds or incorporate an exercise segment into their 30 minutes. But I'm not going to argue the point. Each of us is here for a reason, and not because we eat healthy, balanced diets and get regular movement and exercise.+I used to have five sisters and two brothers. Now one brother is dead from diabetes and multi-system organ damage/failure, and one sister is dead from gross obesity, having her last dozen years spent having one toe nipped off, then another, until her legs were amputated up to her knees. She also had diabetes and congestive heart disease.
The price of loving a food addict carries the same weight as loving a drug addict. But the food addict gets to come to family potlucks.
Nuff said.
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“A delicious and mouthwatering book about food and family, the complicated love for both, and how that shapes us into who we are . . . I absolutely loved it!”
—Valerie Bertinelli
I vividly remember all the snide comments people made about Valerie Bertinelli from the time she was a cute little girl in a sitcom through her public appearances with Eddie Van Halen. And of course, she had a cooking show which didn't exactly feature low-calorie, low-fat and -carb dishes. But I'd like to peek behind the curtain and learn more. It's got to be illuminating, especially since she had her son Wolfgang be her taster and you could watch his figure getting thicker and him apparently making his life of homemade food a big attraction for his friends.
But she didn't write this book--just the blurb--so I don't know exactly what it's about. It does seem to recommend body-image-acceptance, but I hope that is couple with body health, because its one thing to be comfortable in your body, and quite another to fight against making obesity and overeating okay. We are raised weird by family and corporations who push food down our throats while designing ads claiming their products to be good for us, really, only in comparison to eating a stick of butter for breakfast and swinging by 7-11 for a Big Gulp every day.
IMHO, no one would buy a book about healthy eating unless it were written by a celebrity. With few exceptions, the celebrities who have cooking shows could really lose a few pounds or incorporate an exercise segment into their 30 minutes. But I'm not going to argue the point. Each of us is here for a reason, and not because we eat healthy, balanced diets and get regular movement and exercise.+I used to have five sisters and two brothers. Now one brother is dead from diabetes and multi-system organ damage/failure, and one sister is dead from gross obesity, having her last dozen years spent having one toe nipped off, then another, until her legs were amputated up to her knees. She also had diabetes and congestive heart disease.
The price of loving a food addict carries the same weight as loving a drug addict. But the food addict gets to come to family potlucks.
Nuff said.