Rethinking Thin: Review Links
by Neel
I stumbled on to this excellent Book review on a book called RETHINKING THIN :
The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting. You have to read it as the writer Gina Kolata looks at a lot of fat issues like
-The Thinness obsession:Kolata thinks that sometimes being fat is out of your control and that society is blowing body image perceptions out of proportion…I’d say shrinking it to size zero.
-The Weight Loss Industry that is making millions out of obese people’s heartaches.
-She tracks different dieters and fads and looks at fattening factors.
You can get an excerpt here.
Gina Kolata, fat, obesity, thinness obsession, weight loss, childhood obesity
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May 7th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
[...] I stumbled on to this excellent Book review on a book called RETHINKING THIN : The New Science of Weight Loss — and the Myths and Realities of Dieting. You have to read it as the writer Gina Kolata looks at a lot of fat issues like … Original post by Neel Share This [...]
September 5th, 2007 at 12:08 am
[...] Updates by Neel For those of you who are fascinated by obesity myths this article by Gina Kolata is a good read. She deconstructs the factors responsible for obesity-it’s not just calories [...]