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Just eat : one reporter's quest for a weight-loss regimen that works / Barry Estabrook.
The New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland describes the three years he spent trying to lose weight with the most popular diets of the past forty years and discovers that they are all derived from one of three diets.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399580277 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: California : Lorena Jones Books, an imprint of Ten Speed Press, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Estabrook, Barry > Health. Reducing diets. Weight loss. Nutrition. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Stroud Branch | 613.25 Est | 31681010224038 | NONFIC | Available | - |
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The New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland describes the three years he spent trying to lose weight with the most popular diets of the past forty years and discovers that they are all derived from one of three diets. - Baker & Taylor
The New York Times best-selling author of Tomatoland describes the three years he spent trying to lose weight with the most popular diets of the past forty years and discovers that they are all derived from one of three diets. - Random House, Inc.
The New York Times bestselling author of Tomatoland test drives the most popular diets of our time, investigating the diet gurus, contradictory advice, and science behind the programs to reveal how we shouldâand shouldnâtâbe dieting.
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âEssential reading . . . This will completely change your ideas about what you should be eating.ââRuth Reichl, author of Save Me the Plums
Investigative journalist Barry Estabrook was often on the receiving end of his doctorâs scowl. Realizing he had two optionsâtake more medication or lose weightâEstabrook chose the latter, but was paralyzed by the options. Which diet would keep the weight off? What program could he maintain over time? What diet works bestâor even at all?
Over the course of three years, Estabrook tried the regimens behind the most popular diets of the past forty yearsâfrom paleo, keto, gluten-free, and veganism to the Master Cleanse, Whole30, Atkins, Weight Watchersâexamining the people, claims, and science behind the fads, all while recording his mental and physical experience of following each one. Along the way, he discovered that all the branded programs are derived from just three diets. There are effective, scientifically valid takeaways to be cherry-picked . . . and the rest is just marketing. Perhaps most alarming, Estabrook uncovered how short-term weight loss can do long-term health damage that may go undetected for years. Estabrook contextualizes his reporting with an analysis of our cultureâs bizarre dieting history, dating back to the late 1800s, to create a thoroughâand thoroughly entertainingâlook at what specific diets do to our bodies, why some are more effective than others, and why our relationship with food is so fraught.
Estabrookâs account is a relatable, pragmatic look into the ways we try to improve our health through dieting, revealing the answer may be to just eat.
