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Calories & Corsets

Paperback • 2013 • English

Calories & Corsets

By Louise Foxcroft

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About the book

Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our com...Show more

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9781846684265

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Calories & Corsets

Format

Paperback

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