Virginia Sole-Smith Social Links Navigation Virginia Sole-Smith is the author of The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image and Guilt in America, and writes the newsletter Burnt Toast. Latest articles by Virginia Sole-Smith Can you be Heavy and Healthy? Are BMI charts a load of BS? New research shows good health may have nothing to do with your body mass index. Health-fitness The Price of Beauty Deep-pore extractions with your facial? A callus mask for your heels? Virginia Sole-Smith signs up for beauty school and learns how to sell — and dodge — the dreaded sales pitch at the spa. By Virginia Sole-Smith Beauty
