Calories and Corsets A history of dieting over two thousand years
Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour, the author reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to che
Combining research from medical journals, letters, articles and the dieting bestsellers we continue to devour, the author reveals the extreme and often absurd lengths people will go to in order to achieve the perfect body, from eating carbolic soap to chewin every morsel hundreds of times to a tasteless pulp.