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“Dancing also helped me make this change. If food and I had been battling, so had my body and I. In the culture I grew up in, the messages were so powerful that my girlfriends and I were wearing girdles to school by the time we were in junior high. When I began to dance, the old battle—me versus my body—was transformed. Instead of being just a problem to reshape and control, my body became a source of satisfaction and pleasure.”

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Book:Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat
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Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolution in the Way Americans Eat

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Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappé is an American author and social activist known for her research on food, agriculture, and global justice. Her book 'Diet for a Small Planet' was first published in 1971 and had a profound impact on the food movement. more

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