Body of Truth - Brown Harriet
Body of Truth - Brown Harriet Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a…
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Body of Truth - Brown Harriet
Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, "I called you crazy. In our culture, "fat" has become a four-letter word.
But I never called you fat." How did we get to this place where the worst insult you can hurl at someone is "fat"? I called you a bitch. Where women and girls (and increasingly men and boys) will diet, purge, overeat, undereat, and berate themselves and others, all in the name of being thin?As a science journalist, Harriet Brown has explored this collective longing and fixation from an objective perspective; as a mother, wife, and woman with "weight issues," she has struggled to understand it on a personal level.
Now, in Body of Truth, Brown systematically unpacks what's been offered as "truth" about weight and