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Why Diets Make Us Fat

the unintended consequences of our obsession with weight loss

‘In this deeply researched book, Aamodt demolishes the conventional wisdom on dieting, building a compelling case that if we want to be healthier, we should diet less, not more. Essential reading for today’s weight-obsessed culture.’

Traci Mann, Ph.D., author of Secrets from the Eating Lab

‘This important book sounds a much-needed alarm about the long-term damage that dieting does to our bodies and minds. Highly recommended for chronic calorie counters and anyone trying to raise healthy, sane children in an insane food world.’

Jonathan Bailor, author of The Calorie Myth and founder of SANESolution.com

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‘Finally, a scientist who bridges the gap between the emerging behavioral theories of weight loss and our current disastrous attempts to diet our way thin! I can’t wait for this to be published so I can give it to patients.’

Dr. Henry S. Lodge, professor at Columbia University Medical Center and co-author of Younger Next Year

Everything we know about dieting and weight loss is wrong.

In the UK, almost two-thirds of adults are overweight. We think we know the answer: cut calories; eat less. We conclude that being fat is a failure of willpower, perhaps supplemented by a quirk of genetics. Yet research shows that losing weight by willpower alone is almost guaranteed to fail in the long run. In fact, there is no evidence that dieting improves long-term health, and some that suggests yo-yo dieting is more dangerous than being overweight.

Combining deep research and brutal candour about her own experience as a yo-yo dieter, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt explains the science of the obesity epidemic, including new findings about gut bacteria, why bariatric surgery works (it has more to do with your brain than your stomach), and what a real alternative to dieting and weight cycling might look like.

‘In this deeply researched book, Aamodt demolishes the conventional wisdom on dieting, building a compelling case that if we want to be healthier, we should diet less, not more. Essential reading for today’s weight-obsessed culture.’

Traci Mann, Ph.D., author of Secrets from the Eating Lab

‘This important book sounds a much-needed alarm about the long-term damage that dieting does to our bodies and minds. Highly recommended for chronic calorie counters and anyone trying to raise healthy, sane children in an insane food world.’

Jonathan Bailor, author of The Calorie Myth and founder of SANESolution.com

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Format:Paperback

Size: 210mm × 135mm

Extent:304pp

ISBN (13):9781925228595

RRP:£12.99

Pub date:15 Sep 2016

Rights Held: UK & Commonwealth

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Popular science SCIENCE / General Diets & dieting Neurosciences Human biology HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Diets SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience HEALTH & FITNESS / Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss

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