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The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
272 pages
ISBN: 0374103984
EAN: 9780374103989
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In this eye-opening book, New York Times science writer Gina
Kolata shows that our society’s obsession with dieting and
weight loss is less about keeping trim and staying healthy
than about money, power, trends, and impossible ideals.
Rethinking Thin is at once an account of the place of diets
in American society and a provocative critique of the
weight-loss industry. Kolata’s account of four determined
dieters’ progress through a study comparing the Atkins diet
to a conventional lowcalorie one becomes a broad tale of
science and society, of social mores and social sanctions,
and of politics and power. Rethinking Thin asks whether words like willpower are really
applicable when it comes to eating and body weight. It
dramatizes what it feels like to spend a lifetime struggling
with one’s weight and fantasizing about finally, at long
last, getting thin. It tells the little-known story of the
science of obesity and the history of diets and
dieting—scientific and social phenomena that made some
people rich and thin and left others fat and miserable. And
it offers commonsense answers to questions about weight,
eating habits, and obesity—giving us a better understanding
of the weight that is right for our bodies.
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