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Fat Cow, Fat Chance Jenni Murray

Fat Cow, Fat Chance By Jenni Murray

Fat Cow, Fat Chance by Jenni Murray


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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.

Fat Cow, Fat Chance Summary

Fat Cow, Fat Chance: The science and psychology of size by Jenni Murray

'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
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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 way they look? What are the consequences of the obesity epidemic for an already overstretched NHS? And, whilst fat shaming is so often called out, why is it that shouting 'fat cow' at a woman in the street hasn't been included in the list of hate crimes?

Fusing politics, science and personal pain, this is a powerful exploration of our battle with obesity.
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'Agony and confusion, humour and hope. A beautiful book.' SUSIE ORBACH, author of Fat is a Feminist Issue

Fat Cow, Fat Chance Reviews

A powerful, poignant tale of dieting and despair. * The Times *
I'd put this book into every school as a warning to girls - and boys - not to waste their lives obsessing over food. * Mail on Sunday *
A perceptive look at health and happiness. * Sunday Express *
Jenni has a light touch when writing about hers and others struggles with eating and bodies. She does it too with the science, so that agony and confusion is mixed with humour and hope. A beautiful book. * Susie Orbach *
Laudably frank. * The Big Issue *

A painfully honest account of [Jenni's] lifelong battle to lose weight and an investigation into the physical and psychological causes of obesity.

* Daily Mail *

About Jenni Murray

Jenni Murray is a journalist and broadcaster who presented BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour from 1987 to 2020. She is the author of several books and writes a weekly column in the Daily Mail. She lives in north London and the New Forest.

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GOR010809735
9780857525840
0857525840
Fat Cow, Fat Chance: The science and psychology of size by Jenni Murray
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Transworld Publishers Ltd
20200716
272
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