Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
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Do you believe that your weight should be within the range recommended by one of the various height-weight tables that are always appearing in books and magazines? That being overweight is unhealthy? That weight loss improves health?
Have you ever been told by your doctor to lose weight? Are you currently dieting or contemplating going on a diet? Have diets failed you or made you feel like a failure? Do you feel people look down on you because of your weight? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then this book is for you.
Millions of Americans stigmatized as “too fat” need to be reassured that the roads to good health are wide enough for everyone. Here’s proof that people can be overweight and still be fit and healthy. Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist, challenges the conventional wisdom that excess body fat poses a danger to health. This is an authoritative, clearly written book that is crucial reading for anyone who wants to take concrete steps towards improving their health – no matter what their size.
Have you ever been told by your doctor to lose weight? Are you currently dieting or contemplating going on a diet? Have diets failed you or made you feel like a failure? Do you feel people look down on you because of your weight? If the answer to any of these questions is “yes,” then this book is for you.
Millions of Americans stigmatized as “too fat” need to be reassured that the roads to good health are wide enough for everyone. Here’s proof that people can be overweight and still be fit and healthy. Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist, challenges the conventional wisdom that excess body fat poses a danger to health. This is an authoritative, clearly written book that is crucial reading for anyone who wants to take concrete steps towards improving their health – no matter what their size.
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Book details
- Author
- Glenn Glaesser
- Imprint
- Gurze Books, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- Health & Fitness › Diet & Nutrition › Diets
Health & Fitness › Healthy Living - Topics
- body positivity · health at every size · weight stigma · dieting myths · obesity research · metabolic fitness · fat and fit
- ISBN-13
- 9780936077420
About the author
GLENN A. GAESSER is a professor of Exercise Physiology in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University and the author of several books, including It’s the Calories, Not the Carbs and Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health.
Gaesser received the John Halverson Lectureship Award from the American Association of Cereal Chemists in 2013 and is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, having served as president of that organization’s Southwest Chapter. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in exercise physiology from the University of California, Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
Glenn lives in Mesa, Arizona.