Why Diets Make Us Fat: the unintended consequences of our obsession with weight loss - and what to do instead

Sandra Aamodt

Why Diets Make Us Fat: the unintended consequences of our obsession with weight loss - and what to do instead
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Scribe Publications
Country
Australia
Published
27 June 2016
Pages
304
ISBN
9781925321418

Why Diets Make Us Fat: the unintended consequences of our obsession with weight loss - and what to do instead

Sandra Aamodt

Everything we know about dieting and weight loss is wrong.

In Australia, two out of every three adults is 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.

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