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Dieting is Poison

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Virginia Heffernan
Jun 12, 2023
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A very obese gentleman with a prominent double chin and mustache dressed in black with a sword at his left side.
During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance fatness was often seen as a sign of wealth, and was relatively common among the elite. (Wiki)

QUOTE-UNQUOTE UNHEALTHY FOOD. That’s how Christy Harrison, one of a group of rogue dieticians, describes Chicken McNuggets. I can’t get enough of how she, formerly a food purist and determined orthorexic, uses that quot…

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