Psychoanalyst, writer, and social activist Susie Orbach has a lot to say about the “franticness about having to get a body” that is felt by women in our youth obsessed culture, and, equally distressing to Orbach, in other cultures that subscribe to western values. In this Q&A in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the author of Bodies argues that we should give up dieting and
learn to recognize hunger and appetite and respond to them. Dieting, she says, causes compulsive eating and destabilizes our relationship to
food. Food for thought?
Read more in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Buy Orbach’s latest book, Bodies, here.
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Sunday, June 1, 2025
Neve have understood why it is such a crime to want to look good and care about what your body looks like. I guess if you want to be a fat overweight slob that is your busines.If for medical or health issue that is another story. When I hear the experts talk I think of the ladies who blame there fatness on haveing kids. I have seen many a fine body on women with kids.
Let’s all get over body image. When on our death beds, it wont matter how big our boobs or biceps were, or the shape of our butts or lats. What will matter was the quality of our relationships with others. If we thought more about others and less about the body looking back in the mirror, the cosmetics and plastic surgery industries would go belly up. No pun intended. Let’s get real and face it (again, no pun): body image is far more about vanity than health, no matter what anyone says. P.S. I have a slender body at 48 just by dumb luck and am not looking to make excuses for heavy people.