Magic pill the extraordinary benefits and disturbing risks of the new weight-loss drugs
"The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it--from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies"--Provided by publi...
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New York :
Crown,
[2024]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The holy grail
- Finding the treasure chest: How the drugs work
- Cheesecake park: Why we gained weight
- The death and rebirth of satiety: The strange connection between processed food and the new drugs
- Living in an inflamed state: What has happened to our bodies-and do these drugs reverse it?
- An old story repeating itself?: The risks of the old weight-loss drugs-and the new ones
- Why don't you diet and exercise instead?: The two biggest alternatives to weight-loss drugs-and why they have [mostly] failed
- The brain breakthrough: Good news for addiction, bad news for depression?
- What job was overeating doing for you?: The five reasons why we eat-and what happens when they are taken away from us
- I don't think you're in your body: How Ozempic made me realize I had to change
- Self-acceptance vs self-starvation?: What will these drugs mean for eating disorders?
- The forbidden body: What do these new drugs mean for stigma?
- Land that doesn't need Ozempic: what the Japanese do right-and how we can become like them
- Conclusion. The choices now: So what do we do, for us, and our kids? ; What you can do to improve the food system.
