![]() After years spent scrutinizing medical studies and interviewing leading doctors, scientists, eating- disorder specialists, and psychiatrists, Professor Paul Campos is here to lead the backlash against weight hysteria-and to show that we can safeguard our health without obsessing about the numbers on the scale. And contrary to what the fifty-billion-dollar-per-year weight-loss industry would have us believe medical science has not yet come up with a way to make people thin. Every day, we are bombarded with dire warnings about America’s obesity epidemic.” Close to half of the adult population is dieting, obsessed with achieving an arbitrary ideal weight.” Yet studies show that a moderately active larger person is likely to be far healthier (and to live longer) than someone who is thin but sedentary. ![]() Gaesser, Ph.D., professor and director, Kinesiology Program, University of Virginia Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us are overweight. The Obesity Myth is a great place to start.” -Glenn A. And we cannot get at the truth without first recognizing those lies. I believe any open-minded person who reads this book will conclude that we’ve been duped by a pack of self-serving lies. The Obesity Myth should be required reading for every health professional in America. ![]() Campos makes his case against the fat kills” dogma with unimpeachable evidence. ![]()
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