Why Diets Make Us Fat
The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss
New York, New York : Current, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 290 pages ; 24 cm
A neuroscientist uses her knowledge of brain science and biology to explain why dieting does not work and that a cycle of dieting and gaining is actually worse for one's health than being overweight.
Contents:
Part One: The Trouble with Diets -- 1 The Diet Roller Coaster -- 2 Willpower Runs Out -- 3 How Diets Lead to Weight Gain -- 4 The Weight of Beauty -- 5 Our Brains Fight Weight Loss -- Part Two: Why We Gain Weight -- 6 Early Life and Adult Weight -- 7 Stress, Shame, and Stigma -- 8 When Calories Don't Count -- 9 Blame Your Ancestors -- 10 Follow the Money -- Part Three: A Better Way -- 11 Eat with Attention and Joy -- 12 Sleepwalking Through Dinner -- 13 Healthy Is Better Than Thin -- 14 Change Your Lifestyle, Change Your Health -- 15 Good Habits Beat Good Intentions.
ISBN:
9781591847694
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HEALTH Nutrition Diet Aam | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HEALTH Nutrition Diet Aam | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-281) and index.