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Never Satisfied : A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies & Fat
Paperback, 468 pages
Published
January 1st 1990
by Anchor
(first published 1986)
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I finished this book, perhaps not ironically, at lunch this afternoon. I found it intriguing--particularly coming off my recent perusal of "Diets that Time Forgot," a BBC reality-television series that followed 9 dieters as they historically-reenacted both time period and diet fads of Victorian, Edwardian, and Roaring Twenties eras. It was fantastic--hence the desire to read this book.
While I understand that dieting before industrialization was probably non-existent as food and food sources wer...more
While I understand that dieting before industrialization was probably non-existent as food and food sources wer...more
A little tough to get into at the beginning because of the anachronistic style, but it begins to pick up as you get used to it and begin to see where he is going with the work...interesting so far.
Would love to read an updated version, yet still entertaining and fascinating despite its datedness.
A promising topic, but wandering and hard to wade through.
Highly entertaining and an unusual topic. My only complaint (well, not really a complaint, even) is that it was published before the recent new wave of food beliefs and diet fads such as Atkins/South Beach, veganism, organics, etc., which would be really interesting in discussion.
This was VERY dry and very dated. There were some interesting topics (the portion about fasting, for instance), but they were few and far between.
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