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by William Leith (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (1 Aug 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074757250X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747572503
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 269,542 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'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 - we try to make life easy, by giving ourselves access to resources, and then we make life difficult by over-consuming those resources. We have more of everything than we've ever had, and yet we feel emptier. Nothing is enough for us. We are an obese race.' The Hungry Years is the result of his investigations."


Tim Lott

‘It’s part memoir, part diet book, part comedy, and part sugar rush. I loved it’ --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars About so much more than food, 12 Oct 2005
From the title of the book to the picture of a bitten glazed doughnut on the cover, it's clear that the publishers are shrewdly aiming this book squarely at the whole obesity/dieting sector of the market, but it is about so much more than just overeating. Sex and cocaine abuse feature heavily too, and really the subject matter is any compulsive behaviour we indulge in to unwittingly fill an emotional hole.

I love this book. I'm slightly bigger than Leith ever got, and became so by a different route, so his hilarious descriptions of junk food binges go over my head a bit. But I experienced enough moments of startling self-recognition reading this to make the whole thing ring horribly true, and make me think about myself in ways I've resisted before. Best of all is his writing, which is dry, funny and brutally confessional, all strung around a set of amazingly impressive, casually name-dropped contributions on the subject from important figures he has met as a journalist - everyone from Dr Atkins and the head of Starbucks to the chip guru at the McCain factory and a panoply of scientific and medical experts, celebrity fatties, feminists and philosophers. If you're worried that this is going to be all about the Atkins diet, don't be. I'd recommend this book unhesitatingly to anyone who enjoys a good read and has ever overindulged in anything.

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not the least bit thin, 9 Aug 2005
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I'm not usually a reviewer, but I can't resist a line as a small corrective to the first comment here on the book. I've just finished it and I found it to be an astoundingly complex and personal narrative -- thin it ain't, by any definition -- not only about over-eating, or gaining weight, or bingeing, but about the nature and effects of consumption and addiction in all its forms in the developed world. This is not, per se, a book about dieting and weight-watching, and you don't need to have dieted or to have watched your weight to need to read it. It's for any consumer, ie for everybody.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Hungry for more!!!!, 10 Jan 2006
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I loved this book - as someone who has similar issues with food I could really identify with him & the problems he's had. He's very witty, funny & approaches a serious problem in a refreshingly different way. Highly recommended!!
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2.0 out of 5 stars Didn't change my life, should have bought a book on healthy eating!!!
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