Julie's review
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
by Gina Kolata
Julie's review
Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting by Gina Kolata
Julie's review
rating:
This was interesting. The author is the science writer for the NY Times and I read one of her other books (Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It.) When I saw this one in my library I picked it up.
It's a factual account of the industry and science of weight loss here in the U.S. I gave it three stars instead of four only because one of the middle sections was so science-intensive that my eyes glazed over. (Sample sentence: "But PYY, the anti-leptin, also counteracts AgRP and actually the PYY that is an appetite suppressor is not the complete PYY peptide.")
It's also a bit glum -- it seems that modern science and load of painstaking studies have shown that if you have always been obese, you don't have much hope of loosing weight AND KEEPING IT OFF. But the good news is that if you've always been slim or normal weight, you don't have much chance of suddenly becoming obese either. (Overweight is differe
It's a factual account of the industry and science of weight loss here in the U.S. I gave it three stars instead of four only because one of the middle sections was so science-intensive that my eyes glazed over. (Sample sentence: "But PYY, the anti-leptin, also counteracts AgRP and actually the PYY that is an appetite suppressor is not the complete PYY peptide.")
It's also a bit glum -- it seems that modern science and load of painstaking studies have shown that if you have always been obese, you don't have much hope of loosing weight AND KEEPING IT OFF. But the good news is that if you've always been slim or normal weight, you don't have much chance of suddenly becoming obese either. (Overweight is differe
