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3D in the Media
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THE 3D PLAN
The New Yorker, January 15, 2001
Excerpted from Slim for Him
By Rebecca Mead
A Christian weight-loss industry that stressed slimming the self rather than saving the world began to emerge in 1957, with the publication of Pray Your Weight Away, by Charlie W. Shedd. The genre, which has been thoroughly charted by R. Marie Griffith, a Princeton professor and the author of God's Daughters: Evangelical Women and the Power of Submission expanded in subsequent decades, with such titles as Help Lord?The Devil Wants Me Fat!, Slim for Him, and More of Jesus, Less of Me. In 1972, a pastor's wife named Carol Showalter founded the first Christian diet program, 3D (diet, discipline, and discipleship), which was based on the American Dietetic Association's recommended diet with a religious overlay; other programs followed, including First Place, which has groups in nearly five thousand churches nationally, and Jesus is the Weigh.
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