What’s Eating You is a new show on E!. This documentary-style shows follows two people an episode and records each of their eating habits and eating disorders. E!’s slogan for the show is about “Fear, Food, and Obsession”. This show goes into the lives of these people who struggle with binging, purging, anorexia, and different eating habits. This is not your typical eating disorder show. Unlike shows such as Intervention, What’s Eating You follows them around and documents their eating habits on a daily basis but does not have the family influence like most other shows of its kind. However, there is medical influence in the show. A therapist is a present in the show and helps her patients with their eating disorder and has a very effective way about going about their difficulties with eating. The therapist eats with her patients so they have support in what may seem like an easy task, but is extremely stressful for others. Some of the cases are so extreme they do not consume actual food. One of the women that is on the show eats chalk and another eats out of the garbage. Another male makes his food extremely spice and adds other spices to make the food not taste good, and therefore does not have the desire to eat more. One woman on the show did not like getting butter on her hand because she felt as if she had already eaten it because it was on her hand.
Overall, this show is a great way of addressing the issue of eating disorders beyond anorexia and bulimia. There are many different types of eating disorders and obscure eating habits that are not often documented, but people to live with them on a daily basis. I think this show is a good way to reach out to many people who watch E! and might suffer from similar disorders.
3 out of 4 stars


