Full name: Fat Wars: The Inside Story of the Obesity Industry

Author: Ellen Ruppel Shell Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781843541424 1843541424

We are facing a gathering health crisis of epic proportions. The crisis is obesity and the diseases linked to it - hypertension, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. While multinational drug companies race to find a cure, the problem only worsens, with experts declaring that the UK is the second most obese nation on the planet and that 31,000 death a year in Britain are obesity-related. In a rare blend of cutting-edge science, history and personal stories, Shell builds a compelling narrative culminating in a thought-provoking - and radical - call to arms. This is the definitive account of how the western world got fat - and what we can do about it. Similar books: Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz How Not to Die by Michael Greger Deep Nutrition by Catherine Shanahan The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes The End of Overeating by David A. Kessler Fat Land by Greg Critser Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss Brain Maker by David Perlmutter Pure, White and Deadly by John Yudkin Grain Brain by David Perlmutter Death by Food Pyramid by Denise Minger Wheat Belly by William Davis