Rethinking Thin : The New Science of Weight Loss - And the Myths and Realities of Dieting

English

ISBN: 0374103984

EAN: 9780374103989

Category: Health & Fitness / General/Health & Fitness / Weight Loss/Health & Fitness / Diets/

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Release Date: 05/01/2007

Synopsis: In this eye-opening book,New York Timesscience writer Gina Kolata shows that our societys obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Rethinking Thinis at once an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative critique of the weight-loss industry. Kolatas account of four determined dieters progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet to a conventional low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of politics and power. Rethinking Thinasks whether words likewillpowerare really applicable when it comes to eating and body weight. It dramatizes what it feels like to spend a lifetime struggling with ones weight and fantasizing about finally, at long last, getting thin. It tells the little-known story of the science of obesity and the history of diets and dietingscientific and social phenomena that made some people rich and thin and left others fat and miserable. And it offers commonsense answers to questions about weight, eating habits, and obesitygiving us a better understanding of the weight that is right for our bodies.

Awards: James Beard Foundation KitchenAid Book Awards – null  James Beard Foundation KitchenAid Book Awards – null 

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Rethinking Thin : The New Science of Weight Loss - And the Myths and Realities of Dieting

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.99 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Weight: 17.64 oz

Pages: 272