In The Miracle Diet, Carol Rumens debates weighty issues in low fat, high humour rhymes with cartoonist Viv Quillin. While the tone is light, the topic is serious.
Fat, in Susie Orbach’s memorable phrase, is a feminist issue. Women bear the brunt of anxieties about food, and stereotypes about ‘good looks’. But men and children are profoundly affected too. Fat is a problem we’re all saddled with. Multimillion food giants use clever advertising and packaging to stalk their prey. People are consumers targeted with product. What you buy is often not food but image.
On all sides you’re urged: eat, drink, and eat and drink some more. But in this mixed-up millennial world, the art is to look as if you barely eat and drink at all. The less you look like a consumer, the more you’ll be admired. Food is fuel and fantasy, desire and dread. It can decide our shape, and sometimes shapes our lives. We dream of the perfect shape and sometimes we achieve it. Then, often as not, we lose it. Change is inevitable. And weight-loss, too, in the end. The Miracle Diet delights as well as provokes. Though not all the messages are palatable, the wit is tangy. Buy this book as part of a calorie-controlled diet, and you’ll shed those pounds in no time!
- ISBN13 9781852244187
- Publish Date 20 November 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 October 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English