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Nature Wants Us to Be Fat [electronic resource] : The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent – and Reverse – It

Johnson, Richard J.2022

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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 – revolutionised 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, most important, he shares a science-based plan to help listeners fight back against nature.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.