The diet industry is all about exploitation and profit, writes Louise Foxcroft in Calories andCorsets, her slim new book about the history of dieting. Less a banquet than a tasting menu, she chronicles more than 2,000years of movers, shakers and tummy-tuckers, highlighting both the wise and the wacky.
节食产业几乎只有开发和盈利 Louise Foxcroft在《卡路里和束束身衣》一书中写道,她薄薄的新书描述了节食的历史。她的书与其说是一场盛宴,不如说是一本激起人食欲的菜单,Foxcroft按时间顺序,编写了2000多年来的行动者, 有影响的人物和减肥人士, 既写聪明人,也记叙古怪的人。
The word diet comes from the Greek diaita, an approach to health that linked the mentalwith the physical. Classical physicians saw being too fat or thin as a sign of an imbalance.Man cannot live healthily on food without a certain amount of exercise, observedHippocrates, who believed in breakfast, long walks and prudent vomiting. Philosophers suchas Socrates saw a relationship between food and ethics, as a taste for luxury often leads togreed and unjust behaviour.
diet节食这个单词来源于希腊语diata,意思是使身体和心灵都健康的方法。传统的医师认为太胖或者太瘦都是不平衡的标志。人类依靠食物健康地生存必须要有定量的运动 希波克拉底得出这个结论,他崇尚早餐,长距离的行走和适当呕吐。哲学家如苏格拉底发现了食物和道德之间的关系,吃大餐通常会导致人的贪婪和不公平行为。
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