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Why I'm on a diet at 43
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Why I'm on a diet at 43

The ethics of losing weight in 2022 are complex...and the judgement heaped on those who do it, unforgiving. But have we got it all wrong?

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Sep 04, 2022
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I am on diet. Except I don’t call it that nowadays because the word diet is suffused with shame and pity, and dieters are now basically akin to someone who abuses small animals. So instead, when I turn away desserts and glasses of wi…

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