From "Fat Is In" to "Slim-Thick" - A History of Dieting
Food, We Need To Talk
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Dieting and the Middle Class in the United States
Dieting was starting out as something for men. In the 18 sixties, william banton writes the first ever dieting book called a letter on corpulence. It's incredibly popular in the uke and also in the united states. And so he has three quarts meals, three times a day, and then snacks in petween. The middle class is the new class that asks for participation in power. They for leadership in cultural taste making.
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