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Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years

Louise Foxcroft
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Description:Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up: to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be 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 the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to deliberately swallowing tapeworm.This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years. To get started finding Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
232
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Profile Books
Release
2011
ISBN
1846684250

Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years

Louise Foxcroft
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Read Now Download now ⏭ listen AudioBook
Description: Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up: to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be 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 the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and social norms have changed over time. Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour (including one by an octogenarian Italian in the sixteenth century), Foxcroft reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to deliberately swallowing tapeworm.This unique and witty history exposes the myths and anxieties that drive today's multi-billion pound dieting industry - and offers a welcome perspective on how we can be healthy and happy in our bodies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years. To get started finding Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
232
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Profile Books
Release
2011
ISBN
1846684250

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