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Rethinking thin : the new science of weight loss--and the myths and realities of dieting

Author: Gina Bari Kolata
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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Analyzes the psychological and cultural factors that cause many people to be obsessed with attaining unrealistically slender physical proportions.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gina Bari Kolata
ISBN: 9780374103989 0374103984
OCLC Number: 74568248
Description: 257 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Prologue --
1. Looking for diets in all the wrong places --
2. Epiphanies and hucksters --
One month --
3. Oh, to be as thin as Jennifer Aniston (or Brad Pitt) --
Two months --
4. A voice in the wilderness --
Three months --
5. A drive to eat --
Five months --
6. Insatiable, voracious appetites --
Six months --
7. The girl who had no leptin --
Ten months --
8. The fat wars --
Two years --
Epilogue --
Notes --
Acknowledgments --
Index.
Responsibility: Gina Kolata.
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Analyzes the psychological and cultural factors that cause many people to be obsessed with attaining unrealistically slender physical proportions.

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