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Rethinking thin : the new science of weight loss--and the myths and realities of dieting / Gina Kolata.

By:

Kolata, Gina Bari, 1948- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007Edition: First editionDescription: 257 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0374103984
9780374103989

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

613.25 22

LOC classification:

RM222.2 .K576 2007

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

1. Looking for diets in all the wrong places -- 2. Epiphanies and hucksters -- 3. Oh, to be as thin as Jennifer Aniston (or Brad Pitt) -- 4. A voice in the wilderness -- 5. A drive to eat -- 6. Insatiable, voracious appetites -- 7. The girl who had no Leptin -- 8. The fat wars.

Review: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	North Campus North Campus Main Collection	613.25 KOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A430290B
Book	South Campus South Campus Main Collection	613.25 KOL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A430291B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-243) and index.

"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.

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