non-fiction: "fast food nation"

hi all!

i just joined, nice to 'meet' everyone :)

i think i'm sort of biased towards non-fiction, although i have some favorite fiction authors also (mostly john irving!).  so i came in here searching to see if anyone had mentioned yet the non-fiction book "fast food nation" by eric schlosser.  it doesn't talk JUST about the health issues surrounding fast food, but also EVERY effect fast food has on our lives and the entire planet.  money issues, job issues, environmental issues, educational issues, etc.  it may be a bit negative (as only a good non-fictin book can be :) but it's so eye-opening and hopefully will motivate lots of change.  check it out if you haven't seen it yet!

Greetings!

Yeah, I love John Irving too (more his early stuff, I'm sorry to say)...

I'd like to read "Fast Food Nation".  I avoided it when I was overeating because I didn't WANT to know what I was doing to myself and how I was contributing to the destruction of life as we know it.

Keeping with the CC theme, I'd like to suggest weight-loss memoirs.  I've read two and am just starting the third:

"Passing For Thin":  Woman in early 40's, who has been morbidly obese her entire life, loses a significant amount of weight (through OA, it sounds like, but she doesn't get into that specifically).  She focuses not so much on how she lost weight, more on how becoming more slender challenged her image of herself and the struggles she found in becoming a "normal" sized person - how it changed her life beyond weight and food.  She has a very funny and entertaining writing style - the best book of its kind that I've read thus far.

"Half-Assed":  Started as a blog by a early 20's woman who weighed almost 400 pounds and lost half her body weight in two years.  Sassy, amusing, inspiring.  Probably would appeal more to younger CC'ers.

"Thin is the New Happy":  I've just started this one.  This early 40's woman is not as over-weight (needs to lose 20 pounds) but has been obsessed with body image and dieting her entire life and wants to break free of that obsession.  Again, writing style has emotional punch but is also self-deprecating and amusing, like the others above.

I read lots of other types of books as well, but I weave in weight-loss memoirs to keep me motivated and to find common ground with other "losers".  Same as I find on CC!

Anyone else read good weight-loss memoirs, or other non-fiction that supports healthy eating/self-image?