
Reviews
This book reviews the barriers to real, lasting weight loss and what can be done about them, and is recommended for any health collection concerned about weight management.
The Obesity Epidemic is a concise, evidence-based examination of obesity in the modern world... Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates, professionals, and general readers.
A well-written, scientifically sound, and balanced synthesis of the panoply of factors which have driven the current global epidemic of obesity.
Book Details
Introduction
Part 1
1. Does dieting work?
2. Is exercise the answer?
3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin?
4. Is fatness inherited?
Part 2
5. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating
6. How the
Introduction
Part 1
1. Does dieting work?
2. Is exercise the answer?
3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin?
4. Is fatness inherited?
Part 2
5. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating
6. How the economics of food puts more of it on our plates