Fat Is a Family Affair: Help and Hope for Those Who Suffer from Eating Disorders and Those Who Love Them (Hazelden Audio Cassette Lib)

Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

When the leptin gene was discovered in 1994, news articles predicted that there might soon be an easy, pharmaceutical solution to the growing public health crisis of obesity. Yet this scientific breakthrough merely proved once again how difficult the fight against fat really is. Despite the many appetite-suppressants, diet pills, and weight-loss programs available today, approximately 30 percent of Americans are obese. And that number is expanding rapidly. Fat is the engaging story of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight. Covering the entire twentieth century, Robert Pool chronicles the evolving blame-game for fat--from being a result of undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess. Readers in today's weight-conscious society will be surprised to learn that being overweight was actually encouraged by doctors and popular health magazines up until the 1930s, when the health risks associated with being overweight were publicly recognized. Thus began decades of research and experiments that subsequently explained appetite, metabolism, and the development of fat cells. Pool effectively reanimates the colorful characters, curious experiments, brilliant insights and wrong turns that led to contemporary scientific understanding of America's epidemic. While he acknowledges the advances in the pharmacological fight against flab, he underscores that the real problem of obesity is not losing the weight but keeping it off. Drugs offer a quick fix, but they aren't the ultimate answer. American society must remedy the unhealthy daily environments of its cities and towns, and those who have struggled with their weight and have experienced the "yo-yo" cycle of dieting must understand the underlying science of body weight that makes their struggle more than a question of willpower. Fat: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic, by science writer Robert Pool, is the story of obesity research: the quest to find out...

Manufacturer: LINX Corp

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Manufacturer: Arrow Books

THE ORIGINAL ANTI-DIET BOOK IS BACK - In one volume together with its bestselling sequel When it was first published, Fat Is A Feminist Issue became an instant classic and it is as relevant today as it was then. Reflecting on our increasingly diet and body-obsessed society, Susie Orbach's new introduction explains how generations of women and girls are growing up absorbing the eating anxieties around them. In an age where women want to be sexy, nurturing, domestic goddesses, confident at work, and feminine too, the twenty-first-century woman is poorly armed for survival. Never before has the Fat Is A Feminist Issue revolution been more in need of revival. Exploring our love/hate relationship with food, Susie Orbach describes how fat is about so much more than food. It is a response to our social situation; the way we are seen by others and ourselves. Too often food is a source of anguish, as are our bodies. But Fat Is A Feminist Issue discusses how we can turn food into a friend and find ways to accept ourselves for who and how we are. Following the step-by-step guide, and you too can put an end to food anxieties and dieting.

Manufacturer: Penguin Books Ltd

Jane Walmsley was a fat child who became a thin adult and she tells a story that many women will recognize. The point of this book is that for many people, to stay slim is a lifelong struggle of heroic proportions. But the point is that no short-term diet will last for a lifetime - you have to change your whole mental attitude. The author addresses the psychology of getting thin and staying that way. The real reward of slimness is that you can stop worrying about trying to get thin and start worrying about trying to stay that way.

Manufacturer: Roca

Si engorda o le cuesta mucho adelgazar no es porque coma demasiado, sino porque no le esta aportando a su cuerpo los nutrientes que necesita. Sus problemas de peso estan ligados a carencias de micronutrientes que son indispensables para su equilibrio. Gracias a este libro, basado en los ultimos descubrimientos cientificos europeos, podra disfrutar de las ventajas de la micronutricion para recuperar la linea. Descubra cual es su perfil y siga un programa de adelgazamiento personalizado. Con consejos practicos para cocinar light  y 64 recetas expres, del entrante al postre, disfrute al estilo de la micronutricion. / If you easily gain weight, and find difficult to lose it, is not because you eat too much, but because you are not giving your body the nutrients it needs. Your weight problems are linked to deficiencies of micronutrients that are essential for your balance. Find out in this book what your profile fits you and follow a personalized weight loss program.

Manufacturer: San Francisco Book Co

Fitness book

Manufacturer: Mercola.com

Diet/Nutrition

Manufacturer: HarperPB Brand: Collins

"Dr. Perrone helped me get in the best shape of my life--from the inside out."-- Denzel WashingtonWant to fit into your jeans by Friday?Exercise isn't the answer. . .Hollywood's Healthiest Diets is! Choose the diet that's right for you.Lose body fat and inches every day. Train your metabolism to work like it's on fire. Feel energized from the moment you wake up. Increase you mental clarity. Strengthen your immune system. Handle stress with ease. Achieve hormonal balance. Defy aging. Eat for your unique body chemistry.Take Hollywood's Healthiest Diets and determine which strategy will work best for you!

Manufacturer: Ultimate Editions