Fat : Fighting the Obesity Epidemic

The book "Fat" is a groundbreaking exploration of the scientific quest to understand and control body weight.

From the discovery of the leptin gene in 1994 to the present day, this comprehensive history chronicles the evolving blame-game for fat - from undisciplined behavior to subconscious conflicts, physiological disease, and environmental excess.

With surprising insights into how being overweight was actually encouraged by doctors and popular health magazines up until the 1930s, this book reveals the decades of research and experiments that led to contemporary scientific understanding of America's obesity epidemic.

While acknowledging the advances in pharmacological fight against flab, Pool underscores that the real problem is not losing weight but keeping it off.

A must-read for anyone struggling with their weight or interested in understanding the complexities of body weight, "Fat" offers a compelling and informative look at this pressing public health crisis.