Research Catalog

Title

The skinny : what every skinny woman knows (and won't tell you!) / Patricia Marx and Susan Sistrom.

Author

Marx, Patricia (Patricia A.)

Publication

New York : Dell Pub., 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sistrom, Susan.

Description

xiv, 207 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Weight loss
• Women > Health and hygiene
• Weight Loss

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Creed -- Eating Disorders -- Quantity vs. Quality -- Making It Look Big -- Calories Per Minute -- Eating Peanuts -- The FDA -- Fat -- The Best Way to Look Skinny -- What do Do if You Really, Really Need to Lose Five Pounds in Five Minutes -- Exercise -- How Many Calories You Burn While Playing Cards, Ironing a Pair of Slacks, or Engaging in Other Forms of Nontraditional Exercise -- Loosing a Ton of Weight With Absolutely No Effort At All -- Tight Jeans and Other Clothes Issues -- Being Short -- Naked Eating -- Sex -- Cannibalism -- Stamps, Medicine, and Other Sources of Hidden Calories -- Misery, Anxiety, and Depression -- Prozac -- Old Diet Fads -- Liquid Diets -- Single-Food Diets -- Yo-Yo Dieting -- Eating Constantly -- Chewing Gum -- Fidgeting -- Sleep -- Travel -- Space Travel -- Movies, Scary and Otherwise -- Being Cold -- Breakfast Scales -- Eating Out -- Fast-Food Restaurants -- The Best and Worst Choices in Fast Food -- Diet Coke -- What to Do if You Accidentally Drink a Coke Instead of a Diet Coke -- No, Really. What to Do if You Accidentally Drink a Coke Instead of a Diet Coke -- Fasting -- Noisy Food -- Free Food -- Free Zones -- Water -- Protein Diets -- Ripe Fruit vs. Nonripe Fruit -- The Outside vs. the Inside of Food -- Bagels -- Comparing Apples and Oranges -- Artificial Sweeteners -- Salt -- Olestra -- Speed (1) -- Speed (2) -- Drinking -- Smoking -- Caffeine -- The French Question -- How to Look Skinny in a Photo (If You're Not Skinny) -- Hypnotism -- Religion -- Why You Should Never Tell Your Mother You're on a Diet -- Cooking -- What Skinny Girls Keep in Their Kitchen, If Anything -- What to Do About Cellulite -- Diet Books We Wish We'd Written -- Oddball Tips -- Diet Truisms -- Slim Pickings -- What, Finally, We Conclude.

ISBN

044050855X

LCCN

^^^98054824^

OCLC

40534837

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library