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Chargement... Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry (édition 1998)par Laura Fraser
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. There's definitely wisdom in this book, but it made me content to keep my weight between 150 and 160 and I ended up with diabetes. If I'd lost the 10 to 20 pounds my doctor recommended, I would have been better off. So obsessing and fad dieting is bad, but if you're not healthy and you want to be, you have to make more changes than the author discusses here. ( ) Summary: Diets are counterproductive (you knew that) but liquid products are dangerous, low-fat foods are a waste of money, and some physicians who are obesity specialists are also involved in diet product corporations. A program of regular exercise, a well-balanced diet and a refusal to accept "ridiculous" weight standards will help people to live cheerfully in their bodies. Review: Nothing like laying all the facts right there on the table. However, I've had people read this book on my recommendation, agree that it's fabulous information (and so true!), and say that they're going to follow the recommendations right after they lose that last 10 pounds. Whatever. I can't say that I've made perfect peace with my body but after reading this book at least I've stopped obsessing about it so much. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This probing social and cultural history of our preoccupation with weight blows the whistle on a multi-billion dollar industry that feeds on insecurityTaking the same revolutionary and ultimately inspiring approach as The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf, Losing It examines and explodes our culture's obsession with slenderness and the huge establishment that exploits our fears of being fat.A reformed dieter and an ex-bulimic, Laura Fraser traces our fixation with thinness to the images that began appearing a hundred years ago in magazines like Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan. Fraser chronicles the corresponding growth of a $50 billion a year industry that provides false hope in exchange for cash.In this meticulously researched journey through Dietland, Fraser gives the inside scoop on: -- Diet drugs, including the controversial phen/fen-- Diet gurus Richard Simmons, Susan Powter, and Dean Ornish-- Commercial weight loss centers, including Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers-- Weight-loss products like thigh creams and diet cookiesProvocative, political, and personal, this revealing book is a remarkable work of investigative journalism and an enthralling, compelling story with almost universal relevance. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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