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Dieting Follow-Up |
Thursday 10 January 2002 |
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Susie Orbach is the feminist psychotherapist who helped Diana, Princess of Wales, overcome her eating disorder. In her ground breaking book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, she claimed that losing weight had underlying psychological causes. Women who insisted on dieting had an unhealthy attitude to food and were, in effect, cannibalising their own body.
Last week on Woman's Hour she discussed this issue with Shelley Bovey. Shelley is the author of What Have You Got To Lose and believes that Susie makes losing weight sound easier than it really is.
As a follow-up to last week's discussion, Dr. David Ashton, Director of the UK Women's Heart Study, joins Jenni to take issue with Susie Orbach. Drawing on his medical background, he argues that dieting does not alter our metabolic rate significantly, and that cutting calories is the only way to lose weight.
Shelley Bovey is author of What Have You Got To Lose? (will be published on 20 January 2002 by The Women's Press, ISBN: 0704347156, £9.99)
Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach (3rd revised edition published May 1998 by Arrow, ISBN: 0099271540, £6.99)
Woman's Hour: To Diet or not to DietDisclaimer
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