Feeding on Dreams

Why America's Diet Industry Doesn't Work and what Will Work for You

Author: Diane Epstein
Secondary Author: Kathleen Thompson
ISBN: 9780025361911

"Feeding on Dreams exposes the deception and manipulation that pervade America's diet industry - an industry that preys on the pain and insecurities of its customers, risks their health, sells them short, and then blames them for its own failures. Drawing on interviews with staff and clients of the major diet centers, Feeding on Dreams measures the promises made to lure potential customers against the actual experiences of program participants. Citing programs by name, it reveals the methods used to get dieters to spend hundreds of dollars...and to return again and again, each time heavier than the last." "In spite of a growing body of medical evidence that low-calorie diets are ineffectual and ultimately counterproductive, the business of selling potentially harmful diet schemes goes on as usual - unregulated and unlikely to change. As the authors show in this book, the astounding $33 billion a year Americans spend on diet food, diet pills, and commercial diet programs is largely a wa

Publisher: Macmillan
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: Health & Fitness / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Body image)