Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years by Louise Foxcroft

Calories & Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years

Louise Foxcroft

232 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction health history informative medium-paced
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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 Lou...

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