Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It

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Hachette Books, 24 Mar 2015 - Psychology - 304 pages
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A science journalist's provocative exploration of how biology, psychology, media, and culture come together to shape our ongoing obsession with our bodies, while also tackling the myths and realities of the "obesity epidemic."

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Harriet Brown is the author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia, which has been translated into several languages and won a Books for a Better Life Award in 2011. She has edited two anthologies and has written for the New York Times Magazine and Tuesday science section, O Magazine, Psychology Today, Prevention, and many other publications. Brown is an associate professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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TitleBody of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It
Da Capo lifelong books
AuthorHarriet Brown
PublisherHachette Books, 2015
ISBN0738217697, 9780738217697
Length304 pages
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Psychology / Psychopathology / Eating Disorders
Social Science / Disease & Health Issues
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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