The Secret Life of fat : : the Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What it Means for you
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Skinny jeans -- Our changing views of fat -- All about fat. The foundation : fat does more than you think ; Fat can talk ; Your life depends on fat ; When good fat goes bad ; How fat fights to stay on you -- It is not only food that makes us fat. Bacteria and viruses : microscopic in size, giant in effect ; I blame my parents : genes in obesity ; I am woman, I have fat ; Fat can listen -- So what is the solution? Fat control I : how you can do it ; Mind over fat ; Fat control II : how I do it ; The future of fat.
Blends historical perspectives with cutting-edge research to examine body fat as a critical endocrine organ that can be better understood and managed when recognized as a necessary component of human health.
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Exceptional submitted by rats on August 12, 2019, 2:11pm An experienced journalist reports on over 25 years of research on fat and obesity. Easy to read and understand. The information is helpful if somewhat depressing. I wish the science had been done 50 years ago.
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Year Published: 2017
Description: xiv, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393244830
0393244830
SUBJECTS
Fat.
Fat -- Health aspects.