Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating by Baumgarthuber, Christine

Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781789147636)

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Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating by Baumgarthuber, Christine

Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating

$16.00
Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating by Baumgarthuber, Christine

Why Fast?: The Pros and Cons of Restrictive Eating

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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A sober engagement with the diverse meanings of intermittent fasting in human culture.

Fasting from food is a controversial, dangerous, and yet utterly normal human practice. In Why Fast?, Christine Baumgarthuber engages our fascination with restrictive eating in cultural history. If fasting offers few health benefits, why do people fast? Why have we always fasted? Does fasting speak to something deep and immutable within us? Why are our bodies so well adapted to intermittent fasting? And, what might this ancient, ascetic ritual offer us today? Thoughtful and considered, Why Fast? is a sober reconsideration of a contentious practice.

Author: Christine Baumgarthuber
ISBN-10: 1789147638
ISBN-13: 9781789147636
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 08/29/2023
Pages: 184
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.91h x 4.92w x 0.56d
By Christine Baumgarthuber
By Christine Baumgarthuber
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Christine Baumgarthuber is the creator of The Austerity Kitchen, a one-of-a-kind culinary history blog, and author of Fermented Foods, also published by Reaktion Books. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

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