Health Freaks: America's Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness - Hardcoverby Travis A. Weisse (Author) Travis A. Weisse tells a new history of modern diets in America that goes beyond the familiar narrative of the nation's collective failure to lose weight. By exploring how the popularity of diets grew alongside patients' frustrations with the limitations and failures of the American healthcare system in the face of chronic disease, Weisse argues that millions of Americans sought "fad" diets such as the notorious Atkins