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Fat Chance!: The Myth of Dieting Explained
by Jane Ogden
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Routledge (1992-08-14)
ISBN: 0415073715
EAN: 9780415073714
Dewy Decimal #: 613.25
Paperback: 128 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: N0395
Condition: Good
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
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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Customer Reviews
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A speech awkwardly reformatted into a book...
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-09-29
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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