Rethinking Thin The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting

by Kolata, Gina

• ISBN13: 9780312427856
• ISBN10: 0312427859
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-29
• Publisher: Picador

Summary

ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice In this eye-opening report,New York Timesscience writer Gina Kolata shows that our society's obsession with dieting is less about keeping trim and staying healthy than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals. Kolata's account of four determined dieters in a study comparing the Atkins diet to a low-calorie one becomes a broad tale of science and society, of social mores and social sanctions, andof the place of diets in American society. Brimming with anecdote, scientific data, and common sense,Rethinking Thinoffers a challenge to the conventional wisdom about diets and weight loss.

Author Biography

Gina Kolata is a senior writer who covers medicine for The New York Times, and the author of five previous books, including Ultimate Fitness and the national bestseller Flu.  She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 3
Looking for Diets in All the Wrong Places	p. 9
Epiphanies and Hucksters	p. 31
One Month	p. 61
Oh, to Be as Thin as Jennifer Aniston (or Brad Pitt)	p. 65
Two Months	p. 81
A Voice in the Wilderness	p. 85
Three Months	p. 101
A Drive to Eat	p. 107
Five Months	p. 127
Insatiable, Voracious Appetites	p. 131
Six Months	p. 153
The Girl Who Had No Leptin	p. 157
Ten Months	p. 183
The Fat Wars	p. 187
Two Years	p. 213
Epilogue	p. 219
Notes	p. 225
Acknowledgments	p. 245
Index	p. 247
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