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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
PART 1 - THE CRUSADE AGAINST OBESITY
CHAPTER 1 - Weight: An Unhealthy Obsession
Diet Mania
Defending Our Fat Supplies
Other Costs and Consequences of Dieting
CHAPTER 2 - How Obesity Got Such a Bad Name
Defining and Measuring Obesity
“Overweight: America’s Number-One Health Problem”
Recommended Weights Drop Again
The Antifat Movement
Staying the Course
PART 2 - EXPOSING THE MYTHS
CHAPTER 3 - Is Obesity a Killer Disease? A Closer Look at the Evidence
Obesity and Its Relationship to High Blood Pressure
Obesity and Its Relationship to Atherosclerosis
What Autopsies Tell Us about Obesity and Atherosclerosis
What Angiography Tells Us about Obesity and Atherosclerosis
What Ultrasound Tells Us about Obesity and Atherosclerosis
Weight and Its Relationship to Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, Blood-Fat Levels, ...
Obesity Allegedly Kills 300,000 Americans Every Year: Where Is the Evidence?
A New Source for the 300,000 Figure—But Still No Evidence
CHAPTER 4 - Thinner May Not Be Healthier
Natural Weights
Fat and Fit
Analyzing the Actuarial Data
Framingham Heart Study —1983 Report
Framingham Heart Study —1991 Report
Thinner versus Heavier: An Alternative View of the Evidence
Potential Health Benefits of Extra Pounds
CHAPTER 5 - “Ideal” Height-Weight Tables: Measuring the Immeasurable
Weight Tables: Arbitrary, Random, and Meaningless
Individualized Ideal Body Weights and Set Points
The Fattening of America: Set-Point Alteration and Weight Change
Body Fat Has Gotten a Bad Rap
CHAPTER 6 - Good Body Fat, Bad Body Fat
Pears and Apples
Visceral (or Deep) Abdominal Fat: The Bad Body Fat
A Lifestyle Recipe for Bad Body Fat
Subcutaneous Fat: The Good Body Fat
Are You an Apple or a Pear?
How to Interpret Your Measurements
CHAPTER 7 - Weight Loss for the Overweight and Obese: Panacea or Pound-Foolish?
Evidence Refutes the Weight-Loss Panacea
Unintentional Weight Loss Cannot Explain the Findings
The Weight-Loss Paradox: Yo-Yoing to Death
Lessons from Leningrad, Minnesota, and the Laboratory
The Low-Carbohydrate Way to Heart Disease
Dieting Begets Bingeing, Which Begets...
Dieter’s Dilemma: The Risk-versus-Benefit Analysis
Who Pays the Price, and How High Is It?
PART 3 - THE TWENTY/ TWENTY PROGRAM FOR METABOLIC FITNESS
CHAPTER 8 - Metabolic Fitness: What It Means, How to Achieve It
What It Means to Be Metabolically Fit: Insulin Sensitivity
Are You Insulin Resistant?
Causes of Insulin Resistance: Genes and Beyond
One Recipe, Two Results: Insulin Resistance and Bad Body Fat
The Twenty/Twenty Program for Metabolic Fitness
Metabolic Fitness, Insulin Resistance, and Weight
CHAPTER 9 - Exercise for Metabolic Fitness: Shaping Up without Necessarily ...
“Exercise Lite” for Metabolic Fitness
Metabolic Fitness versus Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Being Active versus Being “Fit”
The No-Sweat Way to Metabolic Fitness
Before You Start…
Beyond the Two-Minute Walk
No Pain, Lots of Gain: Regulating Intensity
Warming Up, Cooling Down, and Stretching
Making Sure You Succeed
It’s Never Too Late to Start
CHAPTER 10 - Nutrition for Metabolic Fitness
Carbohydrates and Fats: Some Definitions
Starting the Nutrition Component of the Twenty/Twenty Program: The ...
Eating More Complex Carbohydrates Won’t Make You Gain Weight
How to Figure out How Many Grams of Fat Equal 20 Percent
Misleading Labels: Weight versus Calorie Percentages
Food Guide Pyramid
Getting to 20 Percent Fat with the Help of the USDA Food Guide Pyramid
Tips on Reducing Fat in Your Diet
Metabolic Fitness in a Pill?
REFERENCES
RECOMMENDED READING
RESOURCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright Page
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