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Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

Today on the program, Kathy Geiswhite.

Kathy created the Kathy comic strip that was syndicated in newspapers all across America

from 1976 to 2010.

And you know who Kathy is, the straight brown hair, the narrow set eyes, chocolate, chocolate,

chocolate, ac.

The comic was based around what was called the four basic guilt groups of life, food, love,

family, and work. And Kathy, the real person has a new book of essays called 50 Things That

That Aren't My Fault, Essays from the Grown Up Years. It's her first big project since the comic strip

ended almost a decade ago. Now, if you recall, a lot of the Kathy comic strips

focused on dieting, overindulging, and scenes of her in a fitting room trying to squeeze

into bathing suits. We are in a time right now where women should, you know, feel wonderful about

our beautiful natural shapes, no matter what shape and size we are. We certainly are done with

body shaming now. And yet,

every magazine, you know, has 20 ads about get slim, get trim, you know, lose this, fit into this.

So I talk with Louise Adams, a clinical psychologist who focuses on the non-diet approach.

To my horror in my research, I found that literally no diets work. And on a hot summer

day, is there anything better than a cone filled with sorely soft serve? I chat with the folks

over at Dairy Queen headquarters about their history. All of this is coming up, but first, my

conversation with Kathy Geiswight.

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