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"Susan Yager has given us a delightful breeze through a century of American
dietary prescriptions, from Dr. Kellogg to Michael Pollan. What to do? We
still haven't figured out how to keep our food appetites to reasonable limits."
A lively cultural history of the American weight loss industry that explores the origins of our obsession with dieting. As a nation battling an obesity epidemic, we spend more than $55 billion annually on diets and diet regimens. Our weight is making us sick, unhappy, and bigger than ever, and we are willing to hand over our hard-earned money to fix the problem. But most people don't know that the diet industry started cashing in long before the advent of the Whopper. Featured in the Wall Street Journal Featured in Newsday
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