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“The social pressure to eat according to your sex matters more than it seems. For one thing, it undermines our pleasure in eating, which is seldom a good idea. women often deny themselves the dish they might really want pn the menu because they feel it isn’t “appropriate”.”

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Book:First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
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