The Obesity Epidemic

facts about why 'eating less and doing more' doesn't work

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    • Introduction
    • Part 1 – The general principle
    • Chapter 1
    • Chapter 2
    • Chapter 3
    • Chapter 4
    • Part 2 – The calorie formula
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 6
    • Chapter 7
    • Part 3 – The diet advice
    • Chapter 8
    • Chapter 9
    • Chapter 10
    • Chapter 11
    • Chapter 12
    • Chapter 13
    • Chapter 14
    • Part 4 – How can we stop The Obesity Epidemic?
    • Chapter 15
    • Chapter 16
    • Summary
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Part 2 – The calorie formula

57 Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary, (1996). First published by Picador, an imprint of Pan Macmillan. (c) Helen Fielding, 1996. Sincere thanks to Pan Macmillan for the permission to include this quotation.
58 http://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/080529Want2LoseWeight.pdf
59 (*) www.bbc.co.uk/wales/bigfatproblem
60 Gordon Wardlaw, Anne Smith, Contemporary Nutrition, seventh edition, McGraw Hill (2009).
61 BUPA, Healthy Living, produced by BUPA’s health information team, 2nd edition edited by Alastair McQueen, published September 2007.
62 (*) http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/loseweight/Pages/Weightlossmyths.aspx.
63 (*) http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_4134419.pdf
64 NICE Clinical Guideline 43. Clause 1.2.4.30
65 (*) http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/obesity/lose_wt/recommen.htm
66 (*) http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/healthy/food/improve/795.html
67 (*) http://www.annecollins.com/weight-loss/calories-per-pound.htm
68 (*) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris-Benedict_equation
69 Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass, Flat Belly Diet, published by Rodale, Pan Macmillan (2009).
70 Bikini Fit: The 4-week Plan, written and published by Hamlyn, (2003).
71 A-Z of Calories: Britain’s No 1 Calorie Guide, published by Octavo Publications, (2010).
72 Lorraine Kelly with Anita Bean, Nutrition Made Easy, published by Virgin, (2009).
73 Gill Paul, The Little Book of Calorie Burning, published by Harper Collins, (2008).
74 Bruce Byron, Fat Bloke Slims, published by Penguin, (2009).
75 ITV UK, The World’s Best Diet: A Tonight Special, aired 23 June (2009).
76 Terry Maguire and David Haslam. The Obesity Epidemic and its management, (p149), published by Pharmaceutical Press, (2010).
77 (*) http://cruiseforums.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=832239

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  • "The Obesity Epidemic is the most comprehensive demolition job on the arrogance and ignorance of the health profession I have ever read".
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    “Zoe Harcombe unravels one of the biggest paradoxes of today: why levels of obesity are rising despite the fact our supermarkets are producing more products designed to help people lose weight and boost their health. Harcombe overturns long held myths about weight gain – and shows how processed foods are at the heart of the problem. Unless the food industry takes responsibility for this the future health costs will become unsustainable; no matter how efficient our system.”
    Lucy Johnston, Health Editor, Sunday Express

    “By the end of this book I had been convinced, where I have never been before, that switching from a high fat to a high carbohydrate diet is the single greatest cause of the recent obesity epidemic. Ironically, carbs are the very foodstuffs that we have been instructed to eat by the new army of obesity ‘experts." Dr Malcolm Kendrick, Author of The Great Cholesterol Con

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