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The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
William Leith
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Description for The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
Paperback. Signed by the author. Good copy with some shelf wear.
'Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. I'm hungry most of the time.' On a January morning in 2003, William Leith woke up to the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr Robert Atkins. But what started out as a routine journalistic assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. In his twenties, Leith's weight had risen steadily. In his early thirties, he was slim again, but then, predictably, his weight began to creep up - and ... Read more
'Hunger is the loudest voice in my head. I'm hungry most of the time.' On a January morning in 2003, William Leith woke up to the fattest day of his life. That same day he left London for New York to interview controversial diet guru Dr Robert Atkins. But what started out as a routine journalistic assignment set Leith on an intensely personal and illuminating journey into the mysteries of hunger and addiction. In his twenties, Leith's weight had risen steadily. In his early thirties, he was slim again, but then, predictably, his weight began to creep up - and ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747572503
SKU
KTG0007870
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About William Leith
William Leith is a journalist who has written about subjects as diverse as cosmetic surgery, Palestine, Hollywood directors, and drugs. He writes regularly for the Guardian, the Observer, and the Daily Telegraph.
Reviews for The Hungry Years: Confessions of a Food Addict
"'I thought: if I can understand the despair, my own and everybody else's I could write the story - of why we hate fat, of why we are fat, of why, in some perverse way, we want to be fat. And, importantly, what we can do to stop being so fat. Obesity is the essential human problem in a nutshell ... Read more