Louise Foxcroft is an award-winning Cambridge-educated historian. Hot Flushes, Cold Science: A History of the Modern Menopause (Granta, 2009) won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award 2009. Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting over 2,000 years was published last year by Profile, to rave reviews. Her writing appears in The Times, Independent, Guardian, New Scientist, Daily Mail, LRB, Erotic Review and New Humanist, and she has also been a guest on Woman's Hour.