
From "Fat Is In" to "Slim-Thick" - A History of Dieting
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Dieting
The first women who dieted in the 18 eighties or 18 nineties, were criticised. Women started to do it in the late 18 hundreds as a way to assert their equality. At this time, there is a connection between homosexuality and dieting - so that the slender body is a rejection of a hetnome ity. So it's vene attacked from all sides for the first 20 years. If women are being criticized for dieting, how does the thin body eventually become so popular to day? Well, let's go to the first ever it girl, the kim cardasian of the early 19 hundreds. The gibson girl captured an era with her independence, self
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