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Obsessed

America's Food Addiction--and My Own

by Mika Brzezinski
Mika Brzezinski
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Mika Brzezinski is at war against obesity. She believes the fearsome subjects of food, diet and body image are “radioactive” in America, and getting worse.  On Morning Joe, she is often so adamant about improving America’s eating habits that some people have dubbed her “the food Nazi.” What they don’t know is that Mika wages a personal fight against food every day, and in Obsessed, she describes her history of food obsession, distorted body image and her struggle to be thin. She believes it is time we stop blaming and shaming ourselves and look at the real culprits—the food we eat and our addiction to it.
Remember the days when people whispered about cancer and called it “the Big C”? Mika Brzezinski believes we need to stop whispering about weight and use the F word: fat. We need to establish a dialogue on how our country became overweight and how we can turn the corner and step firmly onto the path of health. She starts with the example of her very close friend Diane, whose goal is to drop 70 pounds. As in her bestseller Knowing Your Value, each chapter offers insights from notable people in medicine, health, business, the arts, and politics, interviews with, among others, White House chef Sam Kass, the late Nora Ephron, Gayle King, and Governor Chris Christie about what they have discovered about food and diet and what works for them. Mika’s new audiobook will nurture a conversation with families and friends, in schools and kitchens, to help us all find the answers to a healthier America.

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    May 7, 2013

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780385393713
      • File size: 181817 KB
      • Duration: 06:18:47

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Broadcast journalist Mika Brzezinski narrates her book, which highlights America's food issues. Brzezinski begins with an almost contentious narration that reveals her own obsessions with food. At the outset, she says, her struggles and her outspokenness about unhealthy American food practices were not taken seriously because she has never been overweight. Though her message is pertinent, Brzezinski's forceful delivery is rushed at times, making for a taut listening experience and some unclear transitions between the narrative and quotations. Brzezinski's message becomes somewhat easier to hear as her narration moves toward a calmer journalistic style that addresses numerous factors contributing to obesity while emphasizing the increased pressure on celebrities to be physically attractive. M.F. (c) AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 13, 2013
      In this multifaceted overview of the widespread, and unhealthy, fixation on food, Brzezinski (Knowing Your Value) shares her personal story of disordered eating that began with binges in her high school years. As she reviews the merit of a "healthy thin", she considers not only obesity's direct blows to personal health but also its toll on one's earning potential and health care costs. Co-author Smith's personal story of food struggles, which for her culminated in obesity, serves also to summarize some of the country's most popular diets, pills, and surgeries throughout the years. Research revealing the highly addictive nature of processed foods is woven with personal tales over-consumption. Effortlessly shifting from a biochemical focus to a spectrum of other harmful inputs, with dips into food philosophy along the way, the book addresses matters like self-soothing with food following trauma. The inconsistency of format and narration proves mildly distracting; however, this does not the tales of their power. When Brzezinski tackles large-scale solutions, she endorses specific governmental action, particularly that undertaken by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The authors have produced a thorough compendium to benefit those embattled with food as well as readers curious about the background of a dangerous epidemic.

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