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Fat is (still) a feminist issue

Susie Orbach's 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' helped women disentangle emotional hunger from physical hunger. Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth picked up the baton, saying "a cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience."

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VIDEO CLIPS FROM THE SERIES
> OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT
Get the facts on obesity, dieting and losing weight
> DIET FACT FILE
Your five minute guide to the history of dieting, from Rubens to Feminism
> BREAKING THE CYCLE
How to set realistic goals to beat obesity
> DIETS
Atkins, detox, vegetarian and more
> BMI CALCULATOR
Calculate your own body mass index
> SUPERSIZE VS SUPERSKINNY
The series which looks at our increasingly dysfunctional relationship with food