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From "Fat Is In" to "Slim-Thick" - A History of Dieting

Food, We Need To Talk

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Women's Diet Advice

Dieting is called benting or back then, because of the letter. And at this time, the editors who answered these letters usually say, don't do it. Since you're a woman, it's dangerous. But later we start to see some people actually giving women advice on dieting. Here's another twist, guise, it's not coming from men. We start to see diet advice addressing women emerging in the 18 eighties, 18 nineties. These female doctors are like, ladies, i know the corsets are making your waist snatched, but it's time to throw him out the window. I don't think you have to be a physician to see how trying

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