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Article: `Eat Fat' skimps on the facts
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 2, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1997 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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EAT FAT
By Richard Klein
Pantheon, 247 pp, illustrated, $24
Think of "Eat Fat," Richard Klein's screed about what's wrong with
fat in America, as a deceiving devil's food cake. The first glance
is enticing, but a few bites reveal an unpalatable concoction whose
good ingredients have been compromised by the unhealthy ones.
Klein starts with a supportable premise, that the tremendous
weight that society places upon all of us to be thin is part of the
reason we are growing fatter. People react to stress by overeating,
he says, and it is stressful to be fat in 1990s America. The
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