Vinegar and weight loss in women of eighteenth-century France: a lesson from the past

This short note reports the eighteenth-century account of Mademoiselle Lapaneterie, a French woman who started drinking vinegar to lose weight and died one month later. The case, which was first published by Pierre Desault in 1733, has not yet been reported by present-day behavioural scholars. Simil...

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Main Authors: Almenara, Carlos A., Aimé, Annie, Maïano, Christophe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications Ltd 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10757/651728