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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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Abstract:
Analyzes the psychological and cultural factors that cause many people to be obsessed with attaining unrealistically slender physical proportions.
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