Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Getting Skinny: A Brief History of Dieting
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Getting Skinny: A Brief History of Dieting
(Samantha) From WeightWatchers to the Atkins Diet to the Lemon Detox, Americans are obsessed with using diet to control our weight. But we’re not the first ones to be concerned with our body mass, to experiment with dieting, and to come up with some really bizarre ideas about how to get thin.
View all episodes
By Footnoting History
4.3
461461 ratings
(Samantha) From WeightWatchers to the Atkins Diet to the Lemon Detox, Americans are obsessed with using diet to control our weight. But we’re not the first ones to be concerned with our body mass, to experiment with dieting, and to come up with some really bizarre ideas about how to get thin.
More shows like Footnoting History
View all
Stuff You Missed in History Class
23,761 Listeners
In Our Time
5,572 Listeners
HistoryExtra podcast
3,198 Listeners
Ben Franklin's World
1,567 Listeners
Sidedoor
2,238 Listeners
History Unplugged Podcast
4,040 Listeners
Tides of History
6,305 Listeners
The Medieval Podcast
323 Listeners
Noble Blood
13,601 Listeners
You're Dead to Me
3,234 Listeners
The Ancients
3,360 Listeners
Gone Medieval
1,906 Listeners
Not Just the Tudors
2,062 Listeners
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
1,403 Listeners
History Tea Time
514 Listeners