I have done a lot of research, reading and studying over the last forty years into the matter of Dieting.Through my own experience with dieting and thus spanning the 6 decades of changes in ideas, beliefs and expertise, I thought that it would be interesting to find out just how long human beings have been concerned with body shape.To my surprise I found that body image has been in human awareness for 10,000 years. Starting with the finds of statuettes...