27 min listen
The Skinny on the South Beach Diet
FromGravy
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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In "The Skinny on the South Beach Diet" producer Katie Jane Fernelius speaks with Adrienne Bitar, author of Diet and the Disease of Civilization, all about diet books and why they capture the American imagination. They discuss the South Beach Diet, in particular, and the ways it answered a specific moral panic over obesity in the early 2000s. But who and what are the inheritors of the diet book industry’s values today?
Released:
Dec 1, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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