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Calories and Corsets: 2000 years of diets and dieting

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If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prof Jane Chapman .

This talk is open to the public and may be podcast.

The media’s obsession with weight is perceived as a recent phenomenon but we have been struggling with what, when, and how we eat ever since the Greeks first pinched an inch. This surprising and sometimes shocking talk exposes the anxieties, fashions and ‘anti-fat cures’ that have driven an expanding dieting industry, and reveals the extreme and often dangerously absurd lengths people have gone to in order to slim down.

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