Rethinking thin : the new science of weight loss--and the myths and realities of dieting / Gina Kolata.

New York : Picador, 2008.

257 pages ; 21 cm

1st Picador ed.

Originally published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.

Prologue -- 1. Looking for diets in all the wrong places -- 2. Epiphanies and hucksters -- One month -- 3. Oh, to be as thin as Jennifer Aniston (or Brad Pitt) -- Two months -- 4. A voice in the wilderness -- Three months -- 5. A drive to eat -- Five months -- 6. Insatiable, voracious appetites -- Six months -- 7. The girl who had no leptin -- Ten months -- 8. The fat wars -- Two years -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-243) and index.