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Title: Losing It: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry by Laura Fraser ISBN: 0-452-27291-2 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: May, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A great read
Comment: As I read this book, I just kept thinking "Wish I'd said that!" My heart breaks for the population most exploited by the diet industry: women who may be 20-40 lbs "overweight". I also feel for those people who spend their brain power, emotions and money on weight loss efforts, even though their "excess weight" may not be compromising their health. The author has a very readable writing style, and, thank God, a wonderful sense of humor. If you're toying with the idea of being a social radical and not dieting anymore, read this book!
Rating: 5
Summary: The most comprehensive and realistic look at dieting around
Comment: I've been a weight loss coach for nearly eight years and have read more books on dieting, weight loss, weight loss research, etc. than I care to admit. (I should be doing other more fun things with my time!) But this is one book that was a plesasure to read from start to finish. Anyone who has ever dieted, knows what it is to fail. Laura's extensively researched work points the finger where it belongs...with the diets, the creators of the diets, the makers of the potions and lotions, and everyone in between. Even better, as I read it, I felt as if Ms. Fraser and I were friends, her writing style is so rich with her own personal flair. This is NOT the dry reporting that you might expect on such an extensive subject, but rather a very compelling and entertaining look at the entire diet industry.
I was a bit sad to come to the end - and look forward to more from this author ... I am a fan!
Rating: 1
Summary: Factually Incorrect
Comment: I have yet to finish reading this book; however I was incensed when I came across a glearing inaccuracy on page 101. This says tons against this 'writer' who obviously did NOT do her homework when writing this book.
It is very hard to find credibility in a book which lacks a factual background.
Further -
Calling Paul Raford a '..public health specialist.." is like calling your family doctor a public health specialist. Dr Raford had written nothing on diet pills before the Wyden hearings. His critique was seriously flawed and poorly written.
Incidentally aspirin has far more adverse effects and overdoses per doses consumed than diet pills ever have. Ms Fraser implies that all overdoses were from PPA. Far from it. A lot more attention should have been paid to products like ephedra way back then!
Sure the diet industry is not perfect. I am horrified at how the public accepts new diets that come on the market; but I am also disappointed with writers who go to the trouble to write a book yet make little effort to check their facts.
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Title: Losing It: America's Obsession With Weight and the Industry That Feeds on It by Laura Fraser ISBN: 0525938915 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Big Fat Lies: The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health by Glenn A. Gaesser ISBN: 0936077425 Publisher: Gurze Books Pub. Date: 18 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser ISBN: 0618164723 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise by Gina Kolata ISBN: 0374204772 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris ISBN: 1586215647 Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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