The author, began to re-evaluate her ideas about food when her baby daughter suffered a medical trauma that made her stop eating for two years due to oral aversion. The work of getting her child to feel safe and happy with food again, and her own responses to that process, led her to research US food culture, particularly the disordered diet and wellness cultures that rely on restrictive external rules for eating, rather than internal cues related to pleasure, comfort, and satiety. She finds that nutrition and wellness experts are often just as conflicted about food as anyone else, and some are struggling with eating disorders of their own. Her arguments are a little vague in spots, but this is a book I'd recommend to most people!