Cravings: how I conquered food : a memoir

Introduction: The source of the trouble

My journey: the first decade, running

Lives of the diet gurus: Lord Byron

My journey: the forties

Lives of the diet gurus: Gayelord Hauser, the man who invented the celebrity diet

My journey: into the fifties: music, music, music, and my galloping food addiction

Lives of the diet gurus: Hippocrates, Cornaro, Brillat-Savarin, Faxian, and William the Conqueror

Diets, hunger, starvation, and solutions

My journey: teenage years

Lives of the diet gurus: William Banting

My journey: the late fifties and the sixties

Lives of the diet gurus: Jean Nidetch and Weight Watchers

My journey: my entrance into America's folk music revival

Lives of the diet gurus: Donaldson, Pennington, Atkins, Stillman, Taller

My journey: the heart of the matter

Lives of the diet gurus: Dr. Andrew Weil

My journey: the late sixties and the seventies

Lives of the diet gurus: Linus Pauling, Adelle Davis, and the vitamin revolution

My journey: almost nearing the last gasp

Lives of the diet gurus: The Scarsdale Diet and Dr. Herman Tarnower

My journey: life on life's terms

Lives of the diet gurus: Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith; alcoholism and food addiction

My journey: the solution

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