Harriet Brown, an associate professor of magazine journalism at Syracuse University and the author of Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia and Body of Truth: How Science, History, and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight--and What We Can Do about It (Da Capo Lifelong Press, 2015), explores the myths and realities of what she calls the "obesity epidemic."

→ Event: Harriet Brown will be reading at Blue Stockings, 172 Allen St, New York, NY, on Wednesday, May 20, at 7 p.m.