The Shape We're In is a sobering store of reflections and images of the obesity epidemic. Boseley's intention was to look into its causes and consequences, and she succeeds more with the latter than the former. She relies heavily on interviews with oft-quoted figures in the healthy eating establishment, and as a result, does not challenge its orthodoxy. She draws no distinction between the corrupted vegetable oils used to fry fast food, for example, and the natural fats in meat and butter. "Fat is a problem," she tells us bluntly, damning the lamb chop from grass-fed sheep along with the KFC chicken nugget.