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

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
Subjects:
Consumer culture
history
vinegar
weight loss
women
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10757/651728
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spelling ndltd-PERUUPC-oai-repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe-10757-6517282020-04-22T03:19:20Z Vinegar and weight loss in women of eighteenth-century France: a lesson from the past Almenara, Carlos A. Aimé, Annie Maïano, Christophe Consumer culture history vinegar weight loss women 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. Similar reports about cases in 1776 are also presented, confirming that some women were using vinegar for weight loss. Those cases can be conceived as a lesson from the past for contemporary policies against the deceptive marketing of potentially hazardous weight-loss products. Revisión por pares 2020-04-21T17:44:00Z 2020-04-21T17:44:00Z 2020-06-01 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 0957154X 10.1177/0957154X19888623 http://hdl.handle.net/10757/651728 History of Psychiatry 2-s2.0-85075441285 SCOPUS_ID:85075441285 0000 0001 2196 144X eng History of Psychiatry 2 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0957154X19888623 31 info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess application/pdf SAGE Publications Ltd Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) Repositorio Academico - UPC
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history
vinegar
weight loss
women
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history
vinegar
weight loss
women
Almenara, Carlos A.
Aimé, Annie
Maïano, Christophe
Vinegar and weight loss in women of eighteenth-century France: a lesson from the past
description 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. Similar reports about cases in 1776 are also presented, confirming that some women were using vinegar for weight loss. Those cases can be conceived as a lesson from the past for contemporary policies against the deceptive marketing of potentially hazardous weight-loss products. === Revisión por pares
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title Vinegar and weight loss in women of eighteenth-century France: a lesson from the past
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