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The groundbreaking discovery that shows why women need fat to lose fat.
Why do women struggle so much with weight? Can women ever lose weight and keep it off?
In this research-driven and counterintuitive book, an anthropologist and a public health doctor team up to answer those questions. Blending anecdotal evidence with hard science, they explain how women's weight is controlled by evolution-but more important- they reveal how a change in diet three decades ago may be the reason women today are bigger than their grandmothers were.
Explaining why fat (both in our diet and in our body) is crucial to long-term health, the authors show not only why women tend (and need) to get heavier after having their first child, but also destroy cultural myths like "all fat is bad for you." Providing a plan that can help any woman achieve a natural, healthy weight- without dieting- Why Women Need Fat not only gives women the tools they need to shed weight, but also a better understanding of why those last five pounds seem impossible to lose.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction xi
Part 1 Why and How We Got Fatter
1 Why Our Diet Changed 3
2 "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished": Why We Got Fatter 17
Part 2 Why Women Need Fat
3 Why Women Have Curvy Hips 41
4 The Mystery of the Tiny Waist 57
5 Why Waistlines Expand 75
Part 3 How to Achieve Your Healthy Natural Weight
6 Myths About Weight and Health 95
7 Why Dieting Doesn't Work 109
8 What to Eat 125
9 Other Ways to Help Restore Your Natural Weight 155
10 Finding Your Natural Weight and Body Type 169
Conclusion 197
Appendix 203
Authors' Note 215
Notes 221
Index 273
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Posted February 25, 2012
This is a well-researched book. The information clarified questions I have had for years concerning the bottom culprits for my family's and my own obesity problems and the accompanying blood glucose issues. The authors put forth a great deal of time and effort to do their own research on an interesting subject and to bring together the results of many other's research findings and share them in the book. I now am an even better label reader and more careful about where I choose to eat when I eat out. It is definitely a beneficial book to add to one's arsenal of knowing how to eat and live more healthily.
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The groundbreaking discovery that shows why women need fat to lose fat.
Why do women struggle so much with weight? Can women ever lose weight and keep it off?
In this research-driven and counterintuitive book, an anthropologist and a public health doctor team up to answer those questions. Blending anecdotal evidence with hard science, they explain how women's weight is controlled by evolution-but more ...