Female Fertility and the Body Fat Connection by Rose E. Frisch, University of Chicago Press, 拢13/$20, ISBN 0226265455
“YOU can never be too rich or too thin” is a quip often attributed to the famously skinny Wallis Simpson. But Rose Frisch is not laughing. For years, she’s battled against both scientific prejudice and the fashion industry to make the case for female fat.
Frisch, now associate professor of population sciences emeritus at the Harvard School of Public 91色情片, argues that women need a certain amount of body fat to maintain their fertility. Fall below that “critical fatness” threshold through dieting…
