The jacket of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Debra Waterhouse (Pandora,
£12.99, ISBN 0 04 440966 4) depicts an iced cake with a cherry on top. A
subsidiary title announces “How to Break Free from the Female Food Trap”. Not
another book on slimming diets, but a plan for liberation from dieting with a
family twist. Waterhouse maintains that mothers who diet to get that fashionable
skeletal figure are conning their daughters into doing the same. Their daughters
will con theirs in turn. ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏy eating is a question of following body
signals.
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