A Brief History of Fat: the 2,000-Year Entanglement and Struggle Between Humans and Fat

Humanity's understanding of "beauty" has continued to evolve over the course of history, and aesthetic preferences for plump or slender figures have also undergone earth-shaking changes. This book combs through the changes in human aesthetics of fat and thin bodies, explores the reasons behind them, and explains in detail the different understandings of fat by humans over the past two thousand years. It details the various measures humans have taken to "fight" against fat and the resulting "weight loss" products and even industries. "Two Thousand Years" is an overview, and this article covers the period from 460 BC to the present. The main timeline of this book is: from ancient times to 1799, people began to understand and evaluate fat; from 1800 to 1899, they began to use scientific analysis of fat and pursue weight loss methods and tools; from 1900 to the present, the emergence of various weight loss companies and products and the analysis of their consequences. In more than two thousand years of entanglement and struggle, what has happened between humans and fat? What victories did people achieve, and how did they fail again and again? Where is the hope for us to defeat obesity once and for all? All problems are buried in various soils of different eras, and buried in vivid and moving stories. This book will have a certain appeal to urban people who pursue "beauty" and health.