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9780936077420

Big Fat Lies The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health

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  • ISBN13:

    9780936077420

  • ISBN10:

    0936077425

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-07-22
  • Publisher: Gurze Designs & Books
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Summary

Offers a plan for metabolic fitness while debunking height-weight tables, fatonsumption, yo-yo dieting, exercise, and the relationship between health andbesity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword xi
Steven N. Blair
Introduction xvii
Part One The Crusade Against Obesity
Weight: An Unhealthy Obsession
27(10)
How Obesity Got Such a Bad Name
37(20)
Part Two Exposing the Myths
Is Obesity a Killer Disease? A Closer Look at the Evidence
57(24)
Thinner May Not Be Healthier
81(24)
``Ideal'' Height-Weight Tables: Measuring the Immeasurable
105(12)
Good Body Fat, Bad Body Fat
117(18)
Weight Loss for the Overweight and Obese: Panacea or Pound-Foolish?
135(30)
Part Three The Twenty/Twenty Program for Metabolic Fitness
Metabolic Fitness: What It Means, How to Achieve It
165(14)
Exercise for Metabolic Fitness: Shaping Up without Necessarily Changing Shape
179(20)
Nutrition for Metabolic Fitness
199(26)
References 225(28)
Recommended Reading 253(4)
Resources: Organizations, Magazines, and Websites that Promote Health at Every Size 257(6)
Index 263

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