Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years
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"At last, a book on dieting that is sensible, and better still, entertaining."-- The Independent Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening inches. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when, and how much ever since the Greeks and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1846684269
ISBN13:9781846684265
Release Date:June 2013
Publisher:Ips - Profile Books
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"
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