The Eating in the Age of Dieting Book Review 2021.
The book is in many ways for the readers; skinny, fat people, those who use food for comfort, either to feast or hang on to and nothing else, just a maddening question of which kind of foods we should eat, mostly food which is non-digestible and refined, about trans fatty acids, fat, refined sugar, oils, grains, etc.
The book begins with a few definitions of terms and enters our experience of eating with a minimum of earnestness and the most totally researched conclusions with common sense. Overall, it is a well-written book with its own slogans, ideas that are truly interesting, which could be changed at a whim, and its own concepts about food.
Why book it? Why not? Well, it was a smart move to turn the cookbook into a book of essays. Rujuta Diwaker says the present food industry is too ego-centered, focused only on profit and so she set out to find solutions for better food and ways to feed a world that struggles to sustain itself.
To achieve that, she has put a lot of expertise and weight into her essays. While she has a lot of flaws, a lot of the questions which she has asked and addressed are really important, leading to the questions of what we eat, how we relate to food, how we lose ourselves in it, what are our values, what are we defending against and what might all that might be hiding behind the complex math of the little equation named “calorie consumption”.
The book is well-done and the essays, the page-turning, the stories from the authors, should be a subject of great discussion for whatever discussion there might be amongst the general public, especially around the current election.
There are reflections of one’s own experience in the book, anecdotes from people like poor little Sam Panasukar, a woman whose favorite food is marshmallows, and was interviewed in this book, and her meat-eating ancestors, and RJ and Chris, two men who are overweight.
Others like yoga teacher Preeti Maria and Caterpillar Sam, etc. had interesting lessons on other things, personal reflection, and writings about what has become of them post surgeries, about the women and men who have become light-skinned and those who just can’t stop eating.
There is all kinds of good reading in this book, as well as the explanations of how we can choose better food in our bodies. If you decide to follow the information in this book to your own ends, you will be no better for it, of course. If you read anything else in the news or see it in magazines or books, you might see it in Rujuta Diwaker hand. She looks at the big picture, knowing the rest of us are making a decision about the world we are going to live in for the next few years, and she has a point.
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