Meet The Author: Louise Foxcroft on Calories and Corsets

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In this week's Meet The Author, Nick Higham speaks to Louise Foxcroft about her book Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years.

Foxcroft describes her own experience of dieting as "almost obsessive" and likens it to being in love.

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