Fat Like Us

By Jean Renfro Anspaugh

Book Overview

In this book we meet men and women who have struggled with weight their entire lives and who come to the Rice Diet in order to finally conquer their unruly bodies. We experience all stages of their... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965449955
• ISBN13: 9780965449953
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Windows on History Pr Inc
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent book

This book was a great book. I could completely identify with the author and all the people she interviewed for the book. If there is anyone out there who has gone on diet after diet, and your weight has yo-yoed up and down, you should read this book. It is a great comfort and a great book to read over and over.It was nice to know so many people know how I feel and understand my plight to diet.

Wow what a great read!

I loved this book. I laughed and cried. I found out everything I wanted to know about the Rice Diet at Duke University. It was full of insight and validation for everyone who struggles with their weight. Finally a book that doesn't preach but chronical the problems we face and the culture in Durham where I'd love to be able to go and try the Rice Diet. I like it so much that I sent Jean an e-mail and she said that she is working on a second book. So until then I'll just have to re-read this one.

This is my life

This book is simply wonderful. For years I felt that no one understood what I have been going through and then I found this book. I laughed, I cried, I got angry and many points made me happy. If you have ever struggled with you weight this book lets you know that you are not alone. Just go out there and DO IT!

Diet Reality

This unusual and well written book is about real people and their struggles with obesity and the resulting ostracizm and prejudices from a society obsessed with thinness to the point of anorexia. It provides re-telling of interviews with people attending the Rice Diet House in Durham, North Carolina, and it shows how their common bond of being fat has created a subculture that provides support to their kind in an otherwise rather hostile world. For them the Rice House is the place of last reort after failure of all other approaches to diet. The Rice diet is the oldest successfull program still in existance and doing good.This book is very informing and a delight to read because it is real and not the usual hype used by the sellers of diet programs.