Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 28, 2010 - Health & Fitness - 272 pages

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Taubes stands the received wisdom about diet and exercise on its head.” —The New York Times

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. Featuring a new afterword with answers to frequently asked 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. 

 

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Contents

The Original Sin
3
Book I Biology Not Physics
13
Why Were They Fat?
15
The Elusive Benefits of Undereating
33
The Elusive Benefits of Exercise
40
The Significance of Twenty Calories a Day
57
Why Me? Why There? Why Then?
62
Thermodynamics for Dummies Part 1
72
A Historical Digression on Lipophilia
106
A Primer on the Regulation of Fat
112
Why I Get Fat and You Dont or Vice Versa
127
What We Can Do
134
Injustice Collecting
140
Why Diets Succeed and Fail
144
A Historical Digression on the Fattening Carbohydrate
148
Meat or Plants?
163

Thermodynamics for Dummies Part 2
77
Head Cases
80
Adiposity
87
The Laws of Adiposity
89
Following Through
201
Appendix
219
Illustration Credits
247
Copyright

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About the author (2010)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhy We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
AuthorGary Taubes
Editionillustrated, unabridged
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010
ISBN030759551X, 9780307595515
Length272 pages
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Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets
Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition
Health & Fitness / Healthy Living
  
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