Rethinking Thin

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Kolata's account of four determined dieters in a study comparing the Atkins diet to a low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social móres and social sanctions, and of the place of diets in American society. Brimming with anecdote, J||H^| scientific data, and common sense, Rethinking Thin offers a challenge to the conventional wisdom about diets and weight loss. m / "An incisive, thought-provoking examination of a subject that concerns us all. This book will educate and illuminate those seeking solid information about the struggle to lose weight." -Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of How Doctors Think "[Kolata] questions the current chest-beating in this sobering examination of why diets fali."j... Tovább

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice In this eye-opening report, New York Times science writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Kolata's account of four determined dieters in a study comparing the Atkins diet to a low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social móres and social sanctions, and of the place of diets in American society. Brimming with anecdote, J||H^| scientific data, and common sense, Rethinking Thin offers a challenge to the conventional wisdom about diets and weight loss. m / "An incisive, thought-provoking examination of a subject that concerns us all. This book will educate and illuminate those seeking solid information about the struggle to lose weight." -Jerome Groopman, M.D., author of How Doctors Think "[Kolata] questions the current chest-beating in this sobering examination of why diets fali."j -People (four stars, critic's choice) "[Kolata] punctuates her eight chapters with the voices of a cluster of dieters, [and] their stories add humán consequence \ to the universal findings." s The Pia in Dealer (Cleveland) "A first-rate author...Readers who care \ about the searing obesity debate will want \ to read this book." -Houston Chronicle "[Kolata's] report reveals well-documented intelligence certain to annoy those segments of society and commerce that stubbomly cling to the ignis fatuus that all one needs to be thin is willpower." -Booklist "This book will make you think differently about obesity and perhaps make the obese think more realistically about themselves." -The Arizona Republic COVER DESIGN BY B. MIDDLEWORTH, BATS4B0NES DESIGN, INC. COVER PHOTOGRAPHS BY PHILIP FRIEDMAN / Vissza