Calories and Corsets
Two thousand years of dieting, from the ancient Greeks to calorie counting, and how little has changed.
Louise Foxcroft’s history of dieting over two thousand years, from the ancient Greeks’ ideas of moderation to Victorian fads and modern calorie counting. She shows how every age has had its own ideal body and its own methods for reaching it, and how little our anxiety about weight has changed.
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