The Fat of the Land

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An epidemic is sweeping America that no one is talking about: Obesity. The number of overweight Americans, both adults and children, is skyrocketing. Obesity contributes to more than 300,000 deaths a year. Although Americans are fatter than citizens of any other industrialized country, apologists claim that genetics is to blame and that, nonetheless, "fat is beautiful" and must be accepted.
Must it? And is the real issue looks, or health? What's the truth about being overweight? In the first book based on a systematic review of thousands of scientific studies and interviews with dozens of health experts, author Michael Fumento—whose arguments are "almost as irrefutable as they are controversial" (The New York Times Book Review)— takes a lively scalpel to a major social and medical problem and the misinformation in which it is steeped. And this was a personal mission for him, as well. As he explains: "I wrote the book because I despaired for my country and I despaired for me,... Tovább

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An epidemic is sweeping America that no one is talking about: Obesity. The number of overweight Americans, both adults and children, is skyrocketing. Obesity contributes to more than 300,000 deaths a year. Although Americans are fatter than citizens of any other industrialized country, apologists claim that genetics is to blame and that, nonetheless, "fat is beautiful" and must be accepted.
Must it? And is the real issue looks, or health? What's the truth about being overweight? In the first book based on a systematic review of thousands of scientific studies and interviews with dozens of health experts, author Michael Fumento—whose arguments are "almost as irrefutable as they are controversial" (The New York Times Book Review)— takes a lively scalpel to a major social and medical problem and the misinformation in which it is steeped. And this was a personal mission for him, as well. As he explains: "I wrote the book because I despaired for my country and I despaired for me, too"—after losing and regaining the same twenty-five extra pounds several times. He decided to use his experience as a medical journalist and researcher to learn about fat and weight loss. What he discovered allowed him for the first time to understand—to really understand—that weight is a vital health issue and that for no one should proper weight management be "the impossible dream."
Along the way he also found that the tens of billions of dollars that the diet and health industries reap annually from "treating" the obese result in many products, programs, and books that are often far worse than useless. Determined to share the information that transformed his life, he explodes such popular myths as the "setpoint theory" and the "low-metabolism" excuse as well as "fat acceptance" rhetoric He devastates the billion-dollar low-fat-food fib, showing how the latest nonfat and low-fat food creations actually contribute
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to making us fatter. He offers solid advice to dieters and provides concrete solutions to the dieting dilemma, all the while exploring the roles of alcohol, television, serving sizes, the sugar industry, and food as entertainment in fostering obesity.
In The Fat of the Land, Michael Fumento goes a step beyond bestsellers like The Zone and The 5 Day Miracle Diet by pinpointing medicine's own unacknowledged prescriptions for being slim in a country that conspires to make us fatter. Vissza