Serena Dandini (photo Gianmarco Chieregato).
QWhen I was little more than a teenager, he went crazy in the newspapers a model so thin as to deserve the nickname of “the breadstick”, her name was Twiggy and it was practically impossible for us Mediterranean girls to adhere to that fashionable British beauty model.
After some clumsy experiments with fruit juice diets I threw in the towel and went back to ham sandwiches for a snack, I don’t know who or what saved me from the stereotype tunnel at all costsperhaps nothing more than my atavistic laziness, but it didn’t work for my classmate.
I remember his desperate attempts to adjust to that aesthetic ideal that has been transformed over time into a question of life and deathand luckily after years of battles she did it but she did it alone, because no one, not even her family, took her seriously.
Anorexia and bulimia are insidious diseases that often go undiagnosedand millions of young people find themselves alone and unarmed fighting this demon which still today affects over three million girls and boys in Italy alone.
To tell us about this battle in a necessary book is Fiorenza Sarzaninia journalist I have always admired for her professional seriousness.
“Hungry for Love” by Fiorenza Sarzanini (Solferino).
Reading it and hearing it talk about the most important issues of the intricate political news of our country is a pleasure, and all the more I was struck when in Hungry for love (Solferino) tackles this thorny issue of eating disorders starting from his personal experience.
“I know how it feels. It happened to me when I was twenty-three. ” Sarzanini gets naked and tells about his private ordeal to explain the reasons and the painful paths faced by all those who have to face this increasingly widespread disease, and which during the last two years of the pandemic has found further fertile ground to expand.
Together with the journalist Francesca Milani he listened to confessionsthe desperation and the effort of re-emerging of so many witnesses, always with the empathy of those who have gone through the same hell but found the way out of it, because the happy ending is at hand and healing is possible, if society and families listen and help sufferers to recognize symptoms and get help.
And this book is certainly a fundamental step towards the light at the end of the tunnel
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