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The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict (Paperback)

by William Leith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (1 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074757250X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747572503
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 142,870 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'I thought: if I can understand the despair, my own and everybody else's I could write the story - of why we hate fat, of why we are fat, of why, in some perverse way, we want to be fat. And, importantly, what we can do to stop being so fat. Obesity is the essential human problem in a nutshell - we try to make life easy, by giving ourselves access to resources, and then we make life difficult by over-consuming those resources. We have more of everything than we've ever had, and yet we feel emptier. Nothing is enough for us. We are an obese race.' The Hungry Years is the result of his investigations."

Tim Lott
‘It’s part memoir, part diet book, part comedy, and part sugar rush. I loved it’ --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars About so much more than food, 12 Oct 2005
From the title of the book to the picture of a bitten glazed doughnut on the cover, it's clear that the publishers are shrewdly aiming this book squarely at the whole obesity/dieting sector of the market, but it is about so much more than just overeating. Sex and cocaine abuse feature heavily too, and really the subject matter is any compulsive behaviour we indulge in to unwittingly fill an emotional hole.

I love this book. I'm slightly bigger than Leith ever got, and became so by a different route, so his hilarious descriptions of junk food binges go over my head a bit. But I experienced enough moments of startling self-recognition reading this to make the whole thing ring horribly true, and make me think about myself in ways I've resisted before. Best of all is his writing, which is dry, funny and brutally confessional, all strung around a set of amazingly impressive, casually name-dropped contributions on the subject from important figures he has met as a journalist - everyone from Dr Atkins and the head of Starbucks to the chip guru at the McCain factory and a panoply of scientific and medical experts, celebrity fatties, feminists and philosophers. If you're worried that this is going to be all about the Atkins diet, don't be. I'd recommend this book unhesitatingly to anyone who enjoys a good read and has ever overindulged in anything.

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30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not the least bit thin, 9 Aug 2005
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I'm not usually a reviewer, but I can't resist a line as a small corrective to the first comment here on the book. I've just finished it and I found it to be an astoundingly complex and personal narrative -- thin it ain't, by any definition -- not only about over-eating, or gaining weight, or bingeing, but about the nature and effects of consumption and addiction in all its forms in the developed world. This is not, per se, a book about dieting and weight-watching, and you don't need to have dieted or to have watched your weight to need to read it. It's for any consumer, ie for everybody.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hungry for more!!!!, 10 Jan 2006
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I loved this book - as someone who has similar issues with food I could really identify with him & the problems he's had. He's very witty, funny & approaches a serious problem in a refreshingly different way. Highly recommended!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars William Leith bares all
A disturbingly honest account of the angst of food addiction. Insightful and well written. The short vignette chapters make easy reading, and dipping in and out was no problem... Read more
Published 3 days ago by Mrs. R. Gaskell

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing with a narrow focus
I'm fascinated by the psychology of over eating but found this one of the most disappointing books that I've read on the subject. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Emma Jane

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good (Too Much) Food Book
I totally got where this guy was coming from - the descriptions were spot on. Highly recommend to anyone (like me) who finds it hard to say 'no' or has little or no understanding... Read more
Published 3 months ago by emma_scriptwriter

4.0 out of 5 stars I ate up the pages and was hungry for more
Some parts of this book are confusing, some are boring, but overall I think it was very informative and, yes, entertaining. Read more
Published 4 months ago by happyreviewer

5.0 out of 5 stars BRILLIANT
I got this book and read it on the same day.I just couldn't put it down.I like the fact that it's like one long newspaper article in a way with lots of facts about what he is... Read more
Published 10 months ago by N. Mcconnachie

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliantly written
Other reviewers have said much. I would just like to add that this book is brilliantly written. It speaks for every one of us who has ever yearned for a bit MORE of whatever it... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mme Judith Clarke

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as expected
Leith has some interesting points of view about the wheat/carbohydrate conspiracy which fails to look at the whole picture. Nevertheless I am cutting carbs for the time being!! Read more
Published 20 months ago by H. Bobs

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Insight into the World of Addiction
This is a personal memoir of what it means to be an addict. Leith starts off the book defining his issue as an unhealthy relationship with food, bread in particular. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mrs. K. A. Wheatley

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll either get it or you won't ....
I think you can only really laugh out loud in this book if you too have experienced the donut syndrome. But Leith says it oh so well. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2006 by SWH

5.0 out of 5 stars Am I bad because I eat food that is bad for me?
I'm three quarters of the way through this book. It appears well researched with lots of facts about the growth of the food industry in the western world some of which you know,... Read more
Published on 13 Jun 2006 by D. Siddle

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