Fat science : why diets and exercise don't work - and what does / Robyn Toomath.
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TextPublisher: Auckland, New Zealand : Auckland University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 198 pages ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781869408534
- 1869408535
- Why diets and exercise don't work - and what does
- 362.196398 23
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. We all want to be thin. Why aren't we? -- 1. Does dieting work? -- 2. Is exercise the answer? -- 3. Can drugs or surgery make us thin? 4. Is fatness inherited? -- Part 2. Why our modern world makes us fat -- 5. How new ways of living have led to new ways of eating -- 6. How the economies of food puts more of it on our plates -- 7. How we're sold on junk food -- 8. How the overweight are stigmatised -- Part 3. What can we do about it? -- 9. How governments can flick the switch -- Conclusion: Rise up.
"Drawing on the latest research and twenty years of working with overweight patients, Dr Robyn Toomath shows how our modern world is making us fat. And while governments and individuals keep trying things that science shows do not work - from dieting to education campaigns - she outlines what just might make a difference in ending the obesity epidemic."--Back cover.
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