Why We Get Fat And What to Do about It

Name: Why We Get Fat And What to Do about It
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ISBN: 9780307474254

ISBN-10: 0307474259

ISBN-13: 9780307474254

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gary Taubes

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Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/27/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.19" wide x 7.99" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.880

Gary Taubes is a journalist and author whose books on controversial science include Nobel Dreams and Bad Science, a New York Times notable book of the year. He is the only journalist to have won the National Association of Science Writer's prestigious Science-in-Society award three times.



Author's Note


Introduction: The Original Sin



Biology, Not Physics



Why Were They Fat?



The Elusive Benefits of Undereating



The Elusive Benefits of Exercise



The Significance of Twenty Calories a Day



Why Me? Why There? Why Then?



Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 1



Thermodynamics for Dummies, Part 2



Head Cases



Adiposity 101



The Laws of Adiposity



A Historical Digression on "Lipophilia"



A Primer on the Regulation of Fat



Why I Get Fat and You Don't (or Vice Versa)



What We Can Do



Injustice Collecting



Why Diets Succeed and Fail



A Historical Digression on the Fattening Carbohydrate



Meat or Plants?



The Nature of a Healthy Diet



Following Through


Afterword to the Anchor Edition: Why Do We Get Fat Answers to Frequently Asked Questions


Appendix: The "No Sugar, No Starch" Diet


Acknowledgments


Sources


Illustration Credits


Index