From the author of the New York Times Well Blog series, My Fat DadEvery story and every memory from my childhood is attached to food... Dawn Lerman spent her childhood constantly hungry. She craved good food as her father, 450 pounds at his heaviest, pursued endless fad diets, from Atkins to Pritikin to all sorts of freeze-dried, saccharin-laced concoctions, and insisted the family do the same--even though no one else was overweight. Dawn's mother, on the other hand, could barely be bothered to eat a can of tuna over the sink. She was too busy...
From the author of the New York Times Well Blog series, My Fat DadEvery story and every memory from my childhood is at...