Ginnie's review
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
by Gina Kolata
Ginnie's review
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata
Ginnie's review
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This is an eye-opening and life-changing book for all modern American's -- but especially American women. NYT science writer Kolata traces the history of what doctors and scientists have proclaimed for one hundred years- most of it just as mythological and wrong today as it was in the early 1900s. If reading this book doen't make you angry (no matter what you weigh or think you should weigh) I would be vastly surprised. I am a very skinny person but the downright lies women I know and love have been told by 'experts,' friends, diet-book publishers, the government and their physicians makes me boil with rage.
Read this well-sourced, well-written book and boil away.
And don't accept what the 'experts' tell you.
Grrrr.
Read this well-sourced, well-written book and boil away.
And don't accept what the 'experts' tell you.
Grrrr.
