From "Fat Is In" to "Slim-Thick" - A History of Dieting
Food, We Need To Talk
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The Banting Man Diet Book
The banting man pamphlet goes into 17 editions in almost no time. At every edition he is adding some testimonials and they are all written by meno k ok, so definitely directed at men. Not only that, fatness was also becoming kind of like a gendered thing. So this meat heavy diet was very much related to masculinity.
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