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Gluttony, No; Obesity, Yet
In Europe of the Middle Ages, there was a conflict of cause and effect among those with enough to eat. Gluttony was a sin, but obesity was symbolic of good fortune and being in God’s good graces.
In Victorian America, yards of billowing flannel bathing costumes concealed not only wasp waists, but surprisingly solid silhouettes.
Many of today’s caloriecounting women may hope to cast the thin shadow of a fashion magazine model. But emaciated models’ photos are not the ones admiringly pinned up in garages and machine shops.
Confusing or not, dieting is a fat business. Americans spend $10 billion a year on reducing, according to sociologist Dr. Natalie Allon
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