Dieting Makes You Fat

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Book Description
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER THAT ROCKED THE DIETING INDUSTRY, NOW REWRITTEN FOR THE 21st CENTURY

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Synopsis
"Dieting Makes You Fat" is the explosive, authoritative answer to the multibillion-dollar dieting industry. The dieting industry is booming. So is obesity, in children, as well as adults. Obesity causes diabetes, heart disease and cancers, as well as misery for those who suffer. The experts are baffled and the dieting industry is no use - because dieting makes you fat. Geoffrey Cannon explains the science and the global politics that are making the world fat. Including seven golden rules for achieving life-long good health and wellbeing - as well as to shed body fat - "Dieting Makes You Fat" is also a handbook for anyone committed to good quality, delicious food and drink, fairly traded and socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. If you want to lose body fat, if you or anyone you know is or has been on a diet, if you care about the obesity crisis, then this is the book for you.

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From the Inside Flap
Have you ever been on a diet? Then you are likely to know that as a rule, after a while all the weight you have reduced goes back on again. This book tells you why.

Are there people in your life who want to be slim? Then you will want to give them the best advice on their weight and their health. This book tells you how.

Are you concerned about the massive rise of obesity including in children? Then you will be wondering why, and what to do. This book gives you the answers.

The message of this book is in its title. Dieting makes you fat. Dieting, supposed to be the solution to overweight and obesity, is in fact part of the problem.

If you want to get rid of body fat, get in good shape and improve your health for ever, about the worst thing you can do is restrict energy from food and drink.

Geoffrey Cannon is co-author of the first version of this book, which was an international bestseller. This version has been totally rewritten for the 21st century, including Your Seven Golden Rules to improve your health, to enhance your wellbeing, and to reduce your body
weight and fat.

This explosive and liberating book is for you as a citizen as well as a consumer, part of a society that respects the makers of food and the living and natural world.

Dieting Makes You Fat will revolutionise thinking and action on overweight, obesity, diet, health and wellbeing. Now you are part of that change. Read on

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From the Back Cover
Why dieting is a disaster
Why the world is getting fat
How we all can get in shape

Here is the explosive and authoritative answer to the multi-billion-dollar dieting industry. If you want to reduce body fat, if anybody in your life is stuck on dieting, if the global obesity crisis shocks you, you need to read and act on this book.

Dieting Makes You Fat proves that dieting, still assumed to be the solution to overweight and obesity, is in fact part of the problem. Dieting regimes that restrict energy are a cause of the condition they are supposed to cure.

The dieting industry is booming. So is obesity, in children and adults. What causes obesity also causes diabetes, heart disease and common cancers. Experts are baffled and the dieting industry is no use – because dieting makes you fat.

Dieting Makes You Fat explains the science and the global politics that are making the world fat. It features seven golden rules for every able-bodied person to achieve lifelong good health and wellbeing – and to shed body fat.

Dieting Makes You Fat is the guide for you as a 21st century consumer and also a handbook for people as citizens. Here’s how to enjoy delicious food always without fear of getting fat. Here’s how to protect the people we care for, and make the world a better place.

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About the Author
Geoffrey Cannon is a writer, speaker, editor, executive and campaigner in the field of food, nutrition and world health. He is co-author of two UK number one bestselling books: Dieting Makes You Fat (with Hetty Einzig) and The Food Scandal (with Caroline Walker).

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