Harriet Brown is the author of Body of Truth and Brave Girl Eating. She has edited two anthologies and has written for the New York Times Magazine, O Magazine, Psychology Today, Prevention, and many other publications. She is an associate professor of magazine journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.
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Over the past twenty-five years, our quest for thinness has morphed into a relentless obsession with weight and body image. In our culture, 'fat' has become a four-letter word. Or, as Lance Armstrong said to the wife of a former teammate, 'I called you cr... SEE MORE