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Author: Gina Kolata
Narrator: Ellen Archer
Publisher: Tantor Audio
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Running Time: 8 Hrs. 15 Min.

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Rethinking Thin

Rethinking Thin

The New Science of Weight Loss - And the Myths and Realities of Dieting

by Gina Kolata




In this eye-opening audiobook, 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 an account of the place of diets in American society and a provocative critique of the weight-loss industry. Kolata's account of four determined dieters' progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet to a conventional low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, and of politics and power.

Rethinking Thin asks whether words like willpower are really applicable when it comes to eating and body weight. It dramatizes what it feels like to spend a lifetime struggling with one's weight and fantasizing about finally getting thin. It tells the little-known story of the science of obesity and the history of diets and dieting: scientific and social phenomena that have made some people rich and thin and left others fat and miserable. And it offers commonsense answers to questions about weight, eating habits, and obesity, giving us a better understanding of the weight that is right for our bodies.



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  • Published: June 2007
  • LearnOutLoud.com Product ID: R024556
Available On Volumes ISBN ISBN-13
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Audio CD 8 Discs 1400104505 9781400104505
MP3 CD 1400154502 9781400154500

 Social Sciences  Cultural Criticism
 Self Development  Diet & Nutrition

 

This Author: Gina Kolata
This Narrator: Ellen Archer
This Publisher: Tantor Audio
 
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