Rethinking Thin
The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 257 pages ; 24 cm
"In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting and weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals." "Rethinking Thin is at once a story of the place of diets in American society and a critique of the weight loss industry. Kolata's account of four determined dieters' progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet to a low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of politics and power."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents:
Looking for diets in all the wrong places -- Epiphanies and hucksters -- Oh, to be as thin as Jennifer Aniston (or Brad Pitt) -- A voice in the wilderness -- A drive to eat -- Insatiable, voracious appetites -- The girl who had no leptin -- The fat wars.
Subjects:
Weight loss -- Psychological aspects.
Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects.
Health behavior.
Weight loss -- Psychological aspects.
Reducing diets -- Psychological aspects.
Health behavior.
ISBN:
9780374103989 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Includes bibliographical references (pages [225]-243) and index.