It takes the average reader 3 hours and 53 minutes to read Calories & Corsets by Louise Foxcroft
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Today we are urged from all sides to slim down and shape up, to shed a few pounds or lose life-threatening stones. The media's relentless obsession with size may be perceived as a twenty-first-century phenomenon, but as award-winning historian Louise Foxcroft shows, we have been struggling with what to eat, when and how much, ever since the Greeks and the Romans first pinched an inch. Meticulously researched, surprising and sometimes shocking, Calories and Corsets tells the epic story of our complicated relationship with food, the fashions and fads of body shape, and how cultural beliefs and...
Calories & Corsets by Louise Foxcroft is 232 pages long, and a total of 58,464 words.
This makes it 78% the length of the average book. It also has 71% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 19 minutes to read Calories & Corsets aloud.
Calories & Corsets is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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