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"""A well-researched and cogent argument...A solid general overview of the scientific and cultural issues surrounding fatness and weight loss with an excellent starter bibliography."" -- ""Library Journal"" ""Brown tackles the myths and realities of the 'obesity epidemic, ' exposing the biggest lies driving the rhetoric of obesity."" -- ""Philadelphia Tribune"" ""This book may be just what most of us need, so we can be kinder to ourselves and others and truly take care of the bodies we have. It's a revelation."" -- ""San Francisco Book Review"""

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Harriet Brown is the author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia, which has been translated into several languages and won a Books for a Better Life Award in 2011. She has edited two anthologies and has written for the New York Times' magazine and Tuesday science section, O magazine, Psychology Today, Prevention, and many other publications. Brown is an associate professor of magazine journalism at the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

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