Dieting makes you fat! "Fat Chance !" examines why so many people spend their lives dieting yet so few ever lose any weight. Up to 70% of women diet at some time in their lives. They want to know why dieting doesn't work, that it is not their fault that they cannot lose weight, and that it is OK to stop dieting. Jane Ogden shows how the process of dieting itself sets you up for failure. She explodes many of the myths about dieting, myths that keep the dieting industry fat, and offers an alternative to dieting - not an alternative magic pill for weight loss but a way to feel good about yourself and to stop thinking that if you feel fat you must be fat.
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Jane Ogden is a Lecturer in Psychology at Middlesex Polytechnic.
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This book seems to be a transcript of a college lecture. It skims over it's topics with an unpolished combination of colloquialisms and academicism that left this reader disappointed. Its prose is rough and unprofessional.
It's content is a welcome, clear-eyed double-take on the state of dieters' body images. It asks the important question, Is feeling fat and being fat the same problem? It has ten brief chapters: 1. Taming the female form: putting dieting into perspective 2. Who is dieting? 3. Why do so many women diet? 4. What are dieters doing? 5. The dieting industry 6. Do diets work? 7. Why do diets fail? 8. Men and dieting 9. Why continue to diet? 10. Giving up dieting
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For as long as records have been kept and history has been written the female body has been seen as something to control and master. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dieting industry, slimming clubs, thinner counterparts, successful dieters, being thinner, most dieters, eating behaviour, preoccupation with food, thin people, women diet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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For as long as records have been kept and history has been written the female body has been seen as something to control and master. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dieting industry, slimming clubs, thinner counterparts, successful dieters, being thinner, most dieters, eating behaviour, preoccupation with food, thin people, women diet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Beverly Hills, Weight Watchers, Judy Mazel, Susie Orbach, Feminist Issue, Pima Indians New!
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- Fat Is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach on 4 pages
- The Beverly Hills Diet by Judy Mazel on 4 pages
- Hip and Thigh Diet by Rosemary Conley on page 10, page 46, and page 49
- Complete Hip and Thigh by ROSEMARY CONLEY on page 10, page 46, and page 49
- The Complete Hip and Thigh Diet by Rosemary Conley on page 10, page 46, and page 49
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- Body Culture and Society: An Introduction by Phillip Hancock in Back Matter
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