Allport, Susan, The Queen of Fats
(University of California Press 2007)
Briffa, John, Escape the Diet Trap
(Fourth Estate, 2013)
Buettner, Dan, The Blue Zones
(Harper Collins 2008)
Davis, William, Wheat Belly
(Harper Collins 2014)
Dawkins, Richard, The Selfish Gene
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Guyenet, Stephan, The Hungry Brain (Vermillion 2017)
Hoffman, Peter, Life’s Ratchet
(Basic Books, 2012)
Lewis David and Leitch, Margaret, Fat Planet
(Penguin 2016)
Moalem, Sharon, Survival of the Sickest
(Harper Collins, 2008)
Nesse, Randolph and Williams, George,
Why We Get Sick (Vintage Books 1996)
Teicholz, Nina, The Big Fat Surprise
(Scribe 2016)
Wrangham, Richard, Catching Fire
(Profile Books 2010)
Pollen, Michael, In Defence of Food
(Penguin 2009)
Lustig, Robert, Fat Chance
(Penguin 2013)
Sisson, Mark, The Primal Blueprint
(Vermillion, 2012)
Taubes, Gary, The Case Against Sugar
(Portobello Books, 2017)
As obesity tightens its grip on our population, more and more of us are turning to fad diets and gyms to control our waistlines… very often without success. If weight loss by dieting, exercise and calorie counting were so simple why are we getting fatter and fatter, and sicker and sicker? Why are so many of us failing?