Publisher's Synopsis
Skim any popular celebrity magazine for a three month period and you will see headlines proclaiming how a certain celebrity looks disturbingly thin or how another is clearly "putting on a few". Quite often these comments are in reference to the same, usually female, individual. A similar phenomenon occurs in academia, where updates proclaim that either bariatric surgery works or does not; weight loss and maintenance is achievable or is not; and we should either worry about our weight if we do not want to experience dire medical consequences or we should not care about our weight or else we will suffer from dire psychological consequences. So, in the end, what is a person to do?
