When I was a young girl approaching womanhood in the early ’90s, the diet and nutrition business was booming. Like most between the ages of 12-16, I was thinking a lot about my figure. Thinness seemed obligatory and muscle definition a very distant “nice to have.” By far the most loudly touted course of action to achieve this ideal form was to consume fat free and low fat foods. According to the media and food companies, if you wanted to […]