Let’s all go pear-shaped - The Times 20th September 2007

In an age of obesity and anorexia it’s vital to understand the best shape and composition for our bodies Before the First World War Karen Blixen, the renowned writer on Africa, was an art student at the Royal Academy in Copenhagen. She was determined to lose weight as she equated a lean figure with being interesting and bohemian, like her aristocratic cousins. Conversely, obesity represented the bourgeois solidarity that she was trying to escape. So keen was Blixen to become thin that one morning she threw her lunch-time sandwiches that her mother made out of the train window.

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