Why We Get Fat: And What to Do about It

by Gary Taubes

Book Overview

What's making us fat? And how can we change? Building upon his critical work in Good Calories, Bad Calories and presenting fresh evidence for his claim, bestselling author Gary Taubes revisits these urgent questions. Taubes reveals the bad nutritional science of the last century--none more damaging or misguided than the "calories-in, calories-out" model of why we get fat--and the good science that has been ignored. He also answers the most persistent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307474259
• ISBN13: 9780307474254
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

This is excellent to book and must read !

This book is must read by everyone to understand why we get fat!! I love Gary Taubes all books! This is simple version of Dood calories and Bad calories.

Fascinating science behind this.

I loved the actual science based information in this book, easy to understand and so fascinating.