The Art of Overeating: A Bellyful of Laughs About Our Food-phobic Culture [Hardcover]

Leslie Landis MFT (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 3, 2009

Fed up with fat-phobia? Welcome to The Art of Overeating, the anti-diet bible that’s chock-full of not-too-weighty wisdom. It flies in the face (not to mention the sucked-in gut) of our calorie-obsessed culture. Above all, it finds the funny bone in our culinary excess while offering reassurance that there’s no such thing as too much food.

Witty text and imaginative illustrations encourage us to dig in and enjoy our meals, while imparting essential tips such as “The best way to eat healthy is to eat in large quantities. How else can you be sure that you are getting all the vitamins and minerals you need?”  Interesting and informative food facts enliven the pages, while the author’s wry style makes it clear she’s not endorsing gluttony--just reminding us to have a little fun with our fries.

For those who love laughter, life, and food, here’s a treat worth indulging in—and it doesn’t even contain a single calorie! 

 

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About the Author

Leslie Landis has been a practicing clinical psychologist since 1999. In that capacity she has encountered many other people who eat, spend, avoid, deny, and defy, and has gained many insights through their experiences.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (November 3, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402764561
• ISBN-13: 978-1402764561
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,449,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #32 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > Cooking

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More fun than a deep fried Twinkie with chocolate sauce!, November 5, 2009

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PT Cruiser "PT Cruiser" (CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Overeating: A Bellyful of Laughs About Our Food-phobic Culture (Hardcover)

This book takes about the same amount of time to read as eating a big box of gingerbread cookies dipped in a tub of Cool Whip and it's twice as much fun! Leslie Landis uses a bit of reverse psychology to illustrate what NOT to do if you want to maintain a healthy body and lifestyle. On the other hand, if you're looking for a quick way to put on a bunch of pounds, there is plenty of helpful advice here! This book had me rolling my eyes and laughing out loud while reading it. The illustrations and photos which are on just about every page are funny and entertaining. There's a little bit of food porn here, but most of the food photos seem to go for quantity, not quality, and I wasn't too tempted even though I've been cutting back on calories while reading it, trying to lose a couple pounds.

With so many other diet books out there telling me what I need to do to lose weight, many with complicated formulas for cutting calories, carbs, fats or whatever, this book is a down to earth, commonsense look at what made you gain the weight to begin with. It would be a good gift book for anyone starting a diet or slugging it out on a long term one. It's also a good gift type book for anyone who just likes to laugh and appreciates a tongue in cheek look at this whole business of dieting.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!!, October 29, 2009

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MotherLodeBeth "MotherLodeBeth" (Sierras of California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Overeating: A Bellyful of Laughs About Our Food-phobic Culture (Hardcover)

Walk into any bookstore and you will see an entire section devoted to health fitness and diet books. This book is hilarious because it makes fun of this multi billion dollar industry. Look around and see how close to sixty percent of Americans are over weight yet we spend more money on ads, magazines, books and television shows geared to people losing weight. Having read Why French Women Don't Get Fat, this book in a Monty Python sort of way, says the same thing that book says. But in a very funny way.

A few years ago our local PBS station did a special with Mel Brooks who in the 1950's was part of the tv show Your Show Of Shows, and he was sharing how when tv sets first came it was the best educated who could afford them, and as such,they knew how to think and didn't need a skit spelled out in full. Then as tv sets became more affordable the writers discovered that they had to explain the joke of the skit to the watcher more.

If you don't need the joke being spelled out, you will understand this book.

3.0 out of 5 stars Cutesy Presented Info--Not So Well Organized Though!, November 17, 2011

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Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Man "Jimmy Moore" (Spartanburg, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Art of Overeating: A Bellyful of Laughs About Our Food-phobic Culture (Hardcover)

I'm all for having a sense of humor and using that as a tool for disseminating information to the masses who are otherwise ho-hum about most conversations about nutrition and health. But THE ART OF OVEREATING takes this seemingly brilliant concept and totally botches it by being a mish-mash of this that and everything in between. Without a central theme (besides trying to be everything to everybody) this book is a lost cause.