Food, We Need To Talk: The Science-Based, Humor-Laced Last Word on Eating, Diet, and Making Peace with Your Body

This print companion to the popular podcast of the same name features first-person writing that mirrors the chatty back-and-forth of the podcast. Gjata, a millennial who graduated from Harvard with a degree in cognitive neuroscience, provides a layperson (albeit well-researched) explanation of a topic, while Phillips, a boomer and associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, adds his medical expertise. The print format allows the authors to dive deeper into subjects; Gjata shows the receipts with an extensive list of citations (over 600!). Readers follow the authors’ path of research and self-discovery; particularly poignant are chapters where Gjata discusses her disordered eating (she didn’t realize she herself had a problem until she interviewed a doctor about eating disorders) and Phillips interviews his daughter about her experience with anorexia nervosa (he didn’t catch on for over a year).