Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years

by Louise Foxcroft

Book Overview

"At last, a book on dieting that is sensible, and better still, entertaining."-- The Independent Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening inches. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when, and how much ever since the Greeks and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846684269
• ISBN13: 9781846684265
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"