Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent--and...

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Richard Johnson David Perlmutter

Nature Wants Us to Be Fat

The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent--and Reverse--It

Richard Johnson, David Perlmutter

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BenBella Books
08 February 2022

Coping with old age; Coping with eating disorders; Fitness & diet; Diets & dieting

2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST - HEALTH- GENERAL

""It is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an ideal and highly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collections."" -Midwest Book Review

Nature puts a ""survival switch"" in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the ""on"" position, it's the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off.

2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST - HEALTH- GENERAL

""It is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an ideal and highly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collections."" -Midwest Book Review

Nature puts a ""survival switch"" in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the ""on"" position, it's the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off.

Dr. Richard Johnson has been on the cutting edge of research into the cause of obesity for more than a decade. His team's discovery of the fructose-powered survival switch-a metabolic pathway that animals in nature turn on and off as needed, but that our modern diet has permanently fixed in the ""on"" position, where it becomes a fat switch-revolutionized the way we think about why we gain weight.

In Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, he details the mounting evidence on how this switch is responsible both for excess fat storage and for many of the major diseases endemic to the Western world, including heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Dr. Johnson also reveals the surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout, kidney disease, liver disease, stroke-and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD. And, most important, he shares a science-based plan to help readers fight back against nature.

Guided by ongoing clinical research-plus fascinating observations from the animal kingdom, evolution, and history-Dr. Johnson takes you along on an eye-opening investigation into-

What you can do to turn off your survival switch

What we have in common with hibernating bears, sperm whales, and the world's fattest bird

Why it's fructose (not glucose) that drives insulin resistance and metabolic disease

The foods we eat that trigger the body to make its own fructose

The surprising role salt and dehydration play in fat accumulation

The surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout and liver and kidney diseases, and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD

Dr. Johnson not only provides new recommendations for how we can prevent or treat obesity, but also how we can use this information to reduce our risk of developing disease. Nature wants us to be fat, and when we understand why, we gain the tools we need to lose weight and optimize our health.

By: Richard Johnson
Foreword by: David Perlmutter
Imprint: BenBella Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 442g
ISBN: 9781637740347
ISBN 10: 1637740344
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 08 February 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Richard Johnson is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and is both a clinician, educator and researcher. He is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and kidney disease and is the founding editor of Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology, one of the main textbooks on kidney disease. For more than 20 years, he has led research on the cause of obesity and diabetes, with especial interest in the role of sugar (especially fructose) and uric acid. His research has been highly cited, published in top medical journals, and supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of The Sugar Fix and The Fat Switch. His latest work contains state-of-the art discoveries on the cause of obesity and potential cures. Currently Dr. Johnson lives in Colorado with his wife, kids, and two rambunctious puppies.