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    The Ministry of Thin: How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control
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    The Ministry of Thin: How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control

    By Emma Woolf

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    We’re obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet. Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we’ll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the modern, international obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty, and perfection has spun out of control. Emma Woolf, author of An Apple a Day, explores how we might all be able to stop hating and start liking our own bodies again. She rallies against the industries of food, health, exercise, beauty, sex, and surgery that seek to create a world that verges on the Orwellian with the victims of this onslaught trapped and dominated by the societal pressures to conform.

    And she dares to ask: if losing weight is the answer, what is the question?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoft Skull Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2014
    ISBN9781619023970
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    The Ministry of Thin: How the Pursuit of Perfection Got Out of Control
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    Emma Woolf

    Emma Woolf is a popular radio and TV personality, author and journalist whose expertise, honesty and humour have touched readers at every age, weight and stage of their lives. A co-presenter on Channel 4’s Supersize vs Superskinny, Emma has also had a weekly column in The Times and appeared on BBC2’s Newsnight, Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, Four Thought and as a regular arts critic on Saturday Review. Follow her on Twitter @EJWoolf.

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