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Why We Get Fat
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Why We Get Fat (2011) (edit title/settings)

And What to Do About It

by Gary Taubes (Author) (edit contributors)

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An eye-opening, paradigm-shattering examination of what makes us fat. In the New York Times best seller Good Calories, Bad Calories, acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes argues that certain kinds of carbohydrates—not fats and not simply excess calories—have led to our current obesity... read more

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Taubes's latest addition to the crowded genre of diet books dismisses as folly the common wisdom of calorie counting. It's not how much we eat, he argues, but what we eat that makes us pack on the pounds. The culprits: insulin and hormonal imbalance. Taubes translates the latest scientific... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Taubes's latest addition to the crowded genre of diet books dismisses as folly the common wisdom of calorie counting. It's not how much we eat, he argues, but what we eat that makes us pack on the pounds. The culprits: insulin and hormonal imbalance. Taubes translates the latest scientific thinking on insulin and fat storage but draws conclusions that seem disappointingly familiar: Meat is good, carbs are bad, and exercise just makes you hungrier.

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In 1934, a young German pediatrician named Hilde Bruch moved to America, settled in New York City, and was "startled," as she later wrote, by the number of fat children she saw- "really fat ones, not only in clinics, but on the streets and subways, and in schools."

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  1. Gary Taubes (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780307272706
Page Count: 1012

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  • Library of Congress: RM237.73 .T39 2011
  • Dewey: 613.712

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