Fat Cow, Fat Chance: The science and psychology of size

'A powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair.' The Times'A moving, brutally honest memoir about what it feels like to be fat-shamed.' Mail on Sunday_______________At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability.She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to make connections between her weight and health issues and told herself that she was fat and happy.She was certainly fat. But the happy part was an Oscar-worthy performance.In private she lived with a growing sense of fear and misery that her weight would probably kill her before she made it to seventy.Interwoven with the science, social history and psychology of weight management, Fat Cow, Fat Chance is a refreshingly honest account of what it's like to be fat when society dictates that skinny is the norm.It asks why we overeat and why, when the weight is finally lost through dieting, do we simply pile the pounds back on again?How do we help young people become comfortable with the wa