If you would like to read about THE AUTHOR'S relationship between eating and intimacy, then you will enjoy this book. If you intend to read this to acquire any understanding of eating and intimacy, skip it! This writing is as self-centered as they get.
Well written with some good points!

Blair W. (
Blair) wrote on 5/1/2007...
A VERY GOOD READ....
This is the fourth book ( Feeding the Hungry Heart, etc.) generated by the seminars Roth conducts at her Berkeley, Calif., home for people who believe that if they were thin, they would be happy. But the author makes clear that losing weight doesn't automatically gain one success, respect and love. Roth's personal story and those of her clients as related here exemplify the need to discover why the overweight are addicted to food. Citing her own deprived childhood, the author demonstrates that gluttons seek the reliable comforts of eating instead of closeness with humans who might become abusive (like her mother) or vanish (like her father).

Renee S. (
renee45) wrote on 10/16/2006...
excellent
Excellent! Great insight into the world of over-eating.
This boook is about breaking free from compulsive eating and shows how dieting and compulsive eating often become a substitute for intimacy.

Leslie T. (
les3098) wrote on 6/18/2006...
excellent

Linda C. (
Seagull) wrote on 5/28/2006...
"When Food Is Love is Roth's seminal work. This a big, beautiful, and important book. I cannot say ehough about it. I hope everyone reads it." - Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones