6.00
p.m., Thursday 21 April
Unity Books, 57 Willis Street, Wellington.
Science
tells us that our own efforts – following diets, heading to the gym or
taking some new pills – are defeated again and again by our genes.
Drawing
on the latest research and twenty years of working with overweight
patients, this short and punchy book dispels myths and tells the tough
truths about our obesity epidemic. Does dieting work? (No.) Is exercise
the answer? (No.) Can we change our genes? (Unfortunately not.) How about
pills and surgery? (Sometimes, but we can’t operate on everyone.) Why are
the rich thinner than the poor? (You’ll find out.)
Toomath
shows how our modern world is making us fat. And while governments and
individuals keep trying things that science shows do not work – from
dieting to education campaigns – she outlines what just might make a
difference in ending the obesity epidemic.
Robyn
Toomath is the Clinical Director of General Medicine at Auckland
Hospital, former President of the New Zealand Society for the Study of
Diabetes, and founder of Fight the Obesity Epidemic.
If it is more
convenient for you, please feel free to attend the Auckland
launch: 5.30 p.m., Thursday 14 April, Auckland Central
City Library.
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