Why We Get Fat
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What's making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century-none more damaging or misguided than the "calories-in, calories-out" model of why we get fat-and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent questions: Why are some people thin and others fat? What roles do exercise and genetics play in our weight? What foods should we eat, and what foods should we avoid? Persuasive, straightforward, and practical, Why We Get Fat is an essential guide to nutrition and weight management.
Complete with an easy-to-follow diet. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked questions. Don't miss Gary Taubes's latest book, The Case Against Sugar, available now.
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GARY TAUBES is cofounder and senior scientific advisor of the Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI). He's an award-winning science and health journalist, the author of Why We Get Fat and Good Calories, Bad Calories, and a former staff writer for Discover and correspondent for the journal Science. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and Esquire, and has been included in numerous Best of anthologies, including The Best of the Best American Science Writing (2010). He has received three Science in Society Journalism Awards from the National Association of Science Writers. He is also the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He lives in Oakland, California.
Content
- Intro
- About the Author
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's Note
- Introduction: The Original Sin
- Book I / Biology, Not Physics
- 1. Why Were They Fat?
- 2. The Elusive Benefits of Undereating
- 3. The Elusive Benefits of Exercise
- 4. The Significance of Twenty Calories a Day
- 5. Why Me? Why There? Why Then?
- 6. Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 1
- 7. Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 2
- 8. Head Cases
- Book II / Adiposity 101
- 9. The Laws of Adiposity
- 10. A Historical Digression on "Lipophilia"
- 11. A Primer on the Regulation of Fat
- 12. Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa)
- 13. What We Can Do
- 14. Injustice Collecting
- 15. Why Diets Succeed and Fail
- 16. A Historical Digression on the Fattening Carbohydrate
- 17. Meat or Plants?
- 18. The Nature of a Healthy Diet
- 19. Following Through
- Afterword to the Anchor Edition: Why Do We Get Fat Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
- Appendix: The "No Sugar, No Starch" Diet
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Illustration Credits
