Product Description

Fat happens. It can happen to anyone. And once it happens, it′s hell′s own game to get rid of it again. But why are we all putting on weight? And what can we do about it?

Winning the Fat War is Anne Diamond′s heartfelt and revealing insight into the world–wide weight epidemic. She feels passionate about the subject because she′s been there and back. Following her own much publicised battle with weight, Anne underwent gastric surgery as a last resort. Her shocking experience will, she hopes, be a warning to others.

Writing Winning the Fat War has led her to meet some of the world′s top experts on the front line of the Fat War, and she′s discovered some alarming facts:

• Once you become obese, your body thinks that weight is ′normal′ and fights all attempts to slim
• There is a link between obesity and impotence!
• Thin people can be fat – on the inside!
• Men are better at slimming than women, but they often have more of the most dangerous kind of fat!
• Scientists are working on a daily injection to finally beat fat. It′s already started ′human trials′.

Anne Diamond′s Winning the Fat War includes the views of Desmond Morris, Bill Clinton, leading politicians, global medical experts and stories of many who have suffered victimisation simply because of their size. Ground–breaking, candid and bravely written – this book challenges ′fattist′ prejudice and will change attitudes to fat forever.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #280681 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 264 pages

Customer Reviews

Experts come clean on the lesser-known facts about weight and diet
If like me you feel that something somewhere must be wrong with a western world where although information and products on weight loss are abundant, we are still getting fatter and fatter - something somewhere doesn't add up - how can our children be expected to have shorter life-spans than us because of obesity, when apparently healthcare is better than ever? Also with the mind boggling array of dietary and exercise info out there, how can we possibliy be expected to make sense of it all? Anne Diamond is a character many people are familiar with and she has made it her personal quest to talk to the real experts and get the whole story on obesity, and perhaps even more crucially she has distilled the advice that can help people fighting their own fat wars. Very well-written, a really insightful foreword by Desmond Morris - a total eye-opener. I was amazed to learn some of the less publicised facts in this book, and I am generally well-informed on all things nutrition and diet-related.

winning the fat war
Winning the Fat War: Expert Ways to Lose Weight in a Fat World
It was a very enjoyable and interesting book but it was not what I was expecting so I was a little disappointed. It is very general and more to do with policy and attitudes rather than how an individual might lose weight; the exception being the discussion of the gastric band experience. Having said that, it was interesting enough to keep me reading pretty well all the way through. It's a question of what you are looking for when you select the book.

Educational
I like Anne Diamond but this book wasn't what I expected. I hoped to read more about her gastric band surgery but there's actually very little about it, how she feels and how it is currently working for her. Perhaps I should have read the description with greater care. I wasn't terribly interested in the topics of global and childhood obesity, nor in interviews with Bill Clinton etc and so that half of the book was wasted on me. I didn't think there was very much active diet advice in it either.