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Book SynopsisI Can Beat Obesity! is not just about losing weight. It is about changing your psychological mindset and finding the drive and strength to improve your health. Having recovered from disordered eating herself, Nicola Davies recognises that beating obesity is not about fad diets and yo-yoing weight, but about your psychological motivation, confidence and skills to both lose weight and prevent relapse in the long term.The workbook style exercises will help you to develop key self-help tools for overcoming obesity. Focussing on building your emotional wellbeing in areas such as self-worth, confidence and working towards goals before making changes to diet, this will be an essential companion on the path to maintaining control of your weight and recovering your health and wellbeing.Trade ReviewA refreshingly clear and well written book providing insight into the origins and causes of obesity, before taking the reader through a structured and scientifically based set of strategies for losing weight. On the way, it provides a realistic guide to healthy weight. Highly recommended. -- Dr Tony Cassidy, Professor of Child & Family Health Psychology at Ulster UniversityDr Nicola Davies has clearly understood that the key to losing weight is not only in the food we choose to eat, but also in our journey of self-discovery. This book is an excellent resource and self-help aid, and one I will find incredibly useful to use with my patients. I believe it will not only help them to understand the basic science behind obesity, but also enable them to have an insight into themselves and begin to understand the challenges they face to change their behaviour. -- Jane DeVille-Almond, SRN SCM HV, BA(Hons) PGcert, Independent Nurses Consultant and Chair of the British Obesity SocietyThere is so much conflicting information out there - "eat this, don't eat that" - Nicola's book instead focuses on the psychological barriers to change and the behaviours that have led to obesity in the first place. Helping people make even the smallest change by developing a deeper understanding of self is key to long term change. -- Geraint Thomas, personal trainer and former professional rugby playerThis is a great book which manages to combine the science of body weight and eating behaviour with extremely helpful tips on how to beat obesity, and is written in an accessible and inspiring way that should be a breath of fresh air to anyone who is struggling with their weight. -- Jane Ogden, professor in Health Psychology and author of several books on eating behaviour including The Good Parenting Food GuideI Can Beat Obesity! is a delightful book full of important information for those who want to join this journey... trigger yourself to change and believe in yourself. When you develop that cornerstone of self-confidence, your life will change, affecting every aspect of your world; your health, your success and relationships will benefit, helping you to achieve your goals. -- Konstantia Keramidaki, health and wellness consultantKudos to Dr Nicola Davies for having written an elucidative, intelligible and earnest guide for those who are considering to embark upon the journey to beat obesity. The book equips you to overcome this health hazard in an organized, hands-on fashion! -- Dr Vandana Mathur (PhD Nutrition), nutrition and lifestyle consultantI've battled with weight for years, tried numerous diets, resorting to bariatric surgery. However, for continued success, I need to understand myself. This book is inspirational, very practical and encouraging and I believe it will be a great tool in helping people understand themselves and achieve the success they seek. -- Patricia King, Accredited Counsellor / Supervisor at Patricia King Counselling ServicesNicola Davies shows us the bigger picture of obesity ... She is both a specialist and supporting companion, helping the reader prepare for change and encouraging self-reflection. -- Mateusz Banaszkiewicz, Health Psychologist, lecturer at SWPS University of Social Sciences and HumanitiesDr Nicola Davies' latest book is an excellent read for both professionals and individuals alike. The approach is balanced between evidence and practical approaches for those wanting to understand the psychology of making a positive change to behaviours. The inclusion of self-reflection in each chapter enables the reader to maintain a connection and truly engage with the process of change. -- Gil Barton MSc PgCert FRSPH FHEA, health and wellbeing specialist and founder of The Healthy Workstyle ConsultancyTable of ContentsPart 1. Introduction. 1. Understanding Obesity. Part 2. Preparing to Beat Obesity. 2. Why Beat Obesity?. 3. Beating Obesity. 4. Are You Ready?. 5. Are You Confident?. 6. What Are Your Goals?. Part 3. Beating Obesity. 7. Your Emotional Well-Being. 8. Your Cognitive Well-Being. 9. Your Social Well-Being. 10. Your Dietary Well-Being. 11. Your Physical Well-Being. Part 4. Beyond Obesity. 12. Accepting Yourself. 13. Your Future is in Your Hands.

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Book SynopsisTakes on the 'obesity epidemic,' challenging many widely held assumptions about its causes and consequences. This title examines fatness and its relationship to health outcomes to ask if our efforts to prevent 'obesity' are sensible, efficacious, or ethical.Trade Review"Weighing In is the book that fat studies and critical geographers of fat have been waiting for." -- Deborah McPhail, University of Manitoba Social & Cultural Geography "Guthman usefully challenges healthism in obesity research and food movements where consumption eclipses production." -- Lee F. Monaghan Sociology Of Health & Illness

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Book SynopsisObesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes the case that understanding the cultural history of a disease is critical to developing effective public health policy.Trade ReviewThe goal of this book is not to offer answers, but to explain how we as a society ended up where we are. There were critical moments in the history of childhood obesity where leaders, whether medical, educational, political or otherwise, could have taken one path or another. Dawes traces the history that led to each crossroad and the implications of the path that our leaders have chosen at each of these crossroads. Given the epidemic levels of obesity in the U.S., the topic has become popular in the media, leading to enormous numbers of articles, books, TV reports, and so on. Many of these accounts come from individuals with a vested interest in swaying readers’ beliefs about the causes of the issue and how to best resolve it. This book offers something different. It places many of the issues that we face as a country into a historical context to help readers understand the current state of childhood obesity. Dawes has done her job very well. The ball is now in our court. -- Lisa Auster-Gussman * Books & Culture *Through anecdotes and an overview of social trends, [Dawes] provides the historical context for our fixation [on childhood obesity], revealing shifting cultural perceptions, medical pre-occupations, scientific advances and economic forces linked to the phenomenon. By clarifying where we have been, Dawes aims to guide us forward… Perhaps health professionals’ efforts to contain, control, prevent and reverse childhood obesity have been constrained by a failure to see and consider the full scope of the threat and the best defenses—that is, by the focus on one idea at a time. Dawes replaces such parochial perspectives with a window 100 years wide. May it help show us the way. -- David Katz * Nature *Dawes, a historian of medicine, dutifully catalogues society’s stumbling attempts to understand and deal with this subject over the past century. She reviews many failed attempts to keep childhood obesity in check, from the ‘endocrine vogue of the 1920s to the 1940s’ to diet drugs, bariatric surgery, and the leptin gene craze. Advertising geared toward making bad foods attractive to kids has been rampant and governments have done a poor job controlling it… Dawes ably demonstrates that any solutions will likely be as multifaceted as the problem. * Publishers Weekly *With vivid prose, memorable examples, and an impressive depth of research, Laura Dawes demonstrates how and why our current preoccupation with childhood obesity emerged. This book is a genuine contribution not only to historical understanding, but to the field of medical ethics and to contemporary policy debates. -- Steven Mintz, University of Texas at AustinChildhood Obesity in America is timely and compelling. This thoughtful book reveals a great deal about the place of the child in American history, the intensity of the search for the normal body, and the overwhelming importance of aesthetic criteria in understanding the best size of the child. -- Susan Lederer, University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Book SynopsisXXL challenges governments to abandon top-down planning solutions in favour of bottom-up innovations to confront the obesity crisis.Trade Review'This slim book is fat with data and ideas, and stands on the imaginative frontier of a very fast-moving public policy debate ... It's bound to cause controversy and thought as we face the public health challenge of trying to engineer weight control.' -- Michael Bliss, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, and author of The Making of Modern Medicine and The Discovery of Insulin 'Promising, thought-provoking and smart.' -- David Frum, best-selling author and adviser to former President George W. Bush 'XXL critically examines the money and policies we're throwing at the obesity epidemic and proposes a new, thoughtful and sensitive approach-healthy living vouchers-that offers meaningful incentives to those who ever have, or ever will, struggle with the emotional and physical battle of weight gain.' -- Bertha K Madras, Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School 'XXL offers both an authoritative yet readily accessible review of the relevant science and, even more important, an imaginative proposal for government action.' -- Frederick Lowy, OC, MD, CM, LLD, President and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, Concordia University, former Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto 'This book takes a fresh, bold, and deep look at an important human error stemming from the illusions of control and the overestimation of knowledge of the human body and behavior. It shows the mistakes committed when governments, in a top-down and naive manner, try to control our biology.' -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Distinguished Professor, New York University Polytechnic Institute and author of New York Times best-sellers The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness 'This book provides the one thing that's sorely lacking amidst the cacophony of claims about what will fix the obesity crisis: A recognition that this is a massively multi-factorial problem utterly resistant to universal, simple solutions, and that individuals require customized strategies for losing and keeping off weight. The idea that public policy can and must support individualized weight-loss plans is as close to a winner as we're likely to see.' -- David H. Freedman, best-selling author of Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us - And How to Know When Not to Trust Them, and contributing editor of Inc. Magazine 'Messrs. Seeman and Luciani's suggestions will annoy both the left and the right. Market forces are anathema to the top-down thinking of many on the left, and handing money to the "undeserving" is anathema to many on the right. But the very fact that their idea defies conventional wisdom suggests that it is a good one.' -- Matt Ridley, international bestselling author of The Rational Optimist and Genome The Wall Street Journal 'The authors have provided us with a clear summary of our current obesity challenges alongside the range of possible avenues to take on this "wicked problem," all smartly compiled in this readable book.' -- Terrence Sullivan CMAJ February 2013 (This title received Outstanding rating by members of the 2012 University Press Books committee... They are essential additions to most library collections) 'Entertaining and insightful are not two words you would normally associate with a book about obesity, but this book certainly has both traits... I would recommend this book for all large public libraries -- Christina Beaird University Press Books for Public & Secondary School Libraries, 2012Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Genesis of Shame Part 1: The Paradoxical Costs of Fat Part 2: (Nearly) Everything Causes Obesity, and (Almost) Everyone is Different Part 3: One-Size-Fits-Nobody Part 4: Healthy Living Vouchers

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