Another Diet Book

[lost thought]

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227091.500-review-the-end-of-overeating.html
The End of Overeating
Book information
The End of Overeating by David Kessler
Published by: Rodale Press
Price: $25.95


Quote

“DOES the world really need yet another book about how to lose weight? It does, if that book happens to be written by a former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration.
As FDA commissioner under the first George Bush and Bill Clinton, DavidKessler crusaded against the tobacco companies and their conspiracy to keep smokers hooked. Now back in academe at the University of California, San Francisco, Kessler is battling another major public health problem: the rising tide of obesity. The End of Overeating is both his diagnosis of the problem and a prescription for its treatment.”

So fellow fatties would you buy yet another diet book, this book supposedly different from the usual run of the mill diet fad books.
We already know our food tastes good so what’s new, well the reviewer seems to be suggesting that this is a more scientific approach I will need convincing that it is worth $26 that’s about £20 probably.
Perhaps Queen Judy will review the book then I can borrow it from a sucker who has bought it, another money saving tip.

[piratebrido]

Over complicating diet doesn't help either. Eat your greens and put down the jaffa cakes ect. I'm fat because I over eat. There really is no other reason.

[Matt]

Spending £26 to line your bookshelf is certainly easier than dieting.

[FarSideOfTheMoon]

Or you could do what my brother in law does, spend 50 quid on Alli tablets (fat blocker) then don't eat them if he's having a fatty meal. Brilliant.

[Matt]

Or you could do what my brother in law does, spend 50 quid on Alli tablets (fat blocker) then don't eat them if he's having a fatty meal. Brilliant.

They give you squidgy number twos if you eat fat with them. You don't absorb the oil but it has to go somewhere...

[Croydon Bob]

They give you squidgy number twos if you eat fat with them. You don't absorb the oil but it has to go somewhere...

I read a first hand account that suggested it was worse than that. Took pill, ate pizza, went to bed, woke up having been leaking something with the consistency of olive oil but a worse smell...

[Mongrel]

They give you squidgy number twos if you eat fat with them. You don't absorb the oil but it has to go somewhere...

I heard some alarming stories regarding that from a friend who worked on the dedicated 'helpline' when the drug was first available over here. The need for bicycle clips did get mentioned

[Ryoden]

Or you could do what my brother in law does, spend 50 quid on Alli tablets (fat blocker) then don't eat them if he's having a fatty meal. Brilliant.

Apparently if you drink or eat lo-fat dairy products with every meal (glass of skimmed milk etc) you double the amount of fat that you would normally excrete and thus absorb less fat.

I believe it has to do with calcium attaching itself to fat so its not absorbed but just passes through your system. I wonder if those "pills" work in the same manner?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18838979

[Pebble]

Apparently if you drink or eat lo-fat dairy products with every meal (glass of skimmed milk etc) you double the amount of fat that you would normally excrete and thus absorb less fat.

I believe it has to do with calcium attaching itself to fat so its not absorbed but just passes through your system. I wonder if those "pills" work in the same manner?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18838979

Obesity is a highly complex problem, the role of low dietary calcium has to date been evidenced from epidemiological association. One tiny study does not change this into fact. Leaping from there to advising dairy product intake is not warranted on present data.