Fat : fighting the obesity epidemic / by Robert Pool.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pool, Robert, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obesity--Molecular aspects.

Obesity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author of Eve's Rib takes a close up look at scientific efforts to understand and control human obesity, examining the pharmaceutical and weight control programs available, the history of obesity research, and the science of body weight, and arguing that the real problem with obesity is not losing the weight, but keeping it off.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A Most Peculiar Plague; 1 Medicalizing Obesity; 2 The Answer That Wasn't; 3 There's No Place Like Homeostasis; 4 The Legacy of the Great Fire; 5 That Eureka Moment; 6 The Parable of the Pimas; 7 Setting the Set Point; 8 One Pill Makes You Larger, and One Pill Makes You Small; 9 Just Who's in Charge Here?; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-282) and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610761630

9780190283643

0190283645

9781280761638

1280761636

9780198027935

0198027931

9781602562592

1602562598

OCLC:

404934108