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dreaminthepages's review against another edition
4.0
This was actually very helpful and insightful and enjoyed learning how the body works on a metabolic level with the appetite and satiety hormones. Recommend this book for sure for anyone wanting to understand the weight loss or weight gain journey better. Knocked 1 star as listened to it in audiobook format which was decent but sometimes too fast and had to be concentrating tonunderstand the mechanisms.
nina_the_reader's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
nazza_ahmed's review against another edition
5.0
I read this book again from around this time last year having lost five stone since and curbed my predisposed exposure to type 2 diabetes, an excellent book, a horrible title though that is possibly triggering for those with ed disorders, the title should really be called "why we eat too much shit", but that's not the author's fault!! ironically, the book doesn't advocate for a calorie restricted diet and focuses on the quality rather than the quantity of the food we eat, it expertly dispels the simple calorie in, calorie out formula we are so used to when it comes to our metabolic health to focus on the positive changes we can make to our nutrition regime and lifestyle
mllqnn's review against another edition
1.0
The first part of this book was promising and interesting. Then, he said humans evolved from chimpanzees... Not only that, but our author seems to think that men are humans who can be hungry and tired and do all sorts of things, and "females" are either "fertile" or "infertile". I think it took me a while to cop on to the sexist language because I didn't question that all the research was done on men (not the author's fault, to be fair). Anyway, I'm not sure I can finish this one.
tanemariacris's review against another edition
I sort of figured out based on the instinctual reaction I got from the title that I may have some issues with this book. The body does know.
The parts explaining the science behind metabolism and appetite, and the roles of hormones, most notably of leptin and insulin, in regulating them were fascinating. The prevalent genetic contribution and the theories opened by the emerging field of epigenetics were also highlighted as key features in understanding how all that works, placing the set-point weight at the center of the conversation. I appreciated the deconstruction of the energy balance equation and the shift in focus from the conscious to the unconscious, which should have long been regarded as the bare minimum at this point if people were actually listened to when they talked about their own bodies instead of being villified on sight.
But the book gradually lost me as it rendered certain facts or alternative paths conveniently slippery, worked with some questionable intrinsic assumptions, and did not account for significant outliers, especially as it went into its "not-a-diet" diet prescriptions. There is quite a bit to challenge in that part, starting from the book's very attempt to go in that direction in the first place, even after everything it has disclosed itself. The oversight in those "recommendations," even with my own limited knowledge on the matter, is notable, as is often the case when general nutritional advice is given out with confidence. At least the "practical" side of the book represents a small portion and there is still valuable information to gather from other chapters.
The parts explaining the science behind metabolism and appetite, and the roles of hormones, most notably of leptin and insulin, in regulating them were fascinating. The prevalent genetic contribution and the theories opened by the emerging field of epigenetics were also highlighted as key features in understanding how all that works, placing the set-point weight at the center of the conversation. I appreciated the deconstruction of the energy balance equation and the shift in focus from the conscious to the unconscious, which should have long been regarded as the bare minimum at this point if people were actually listened to when they talked about their own bodies instead of being villified on sight.
But the book gradually lost me as it rendered certain facts or alternative paths conveniently slippery, worked with some questionable intrinsic assumptions, and did not account for significant outliers, especially as it went into its "not-a-diet" diet prescriptions. There is quite a bit to challenge in that part, starting from the book's very attempt to go in that direction in the first place, even after everything it has disclosed itself. The oversight in those "recommendations," even with my own limited knowledge on the matter, is notable, as is often the case when general nutritional advice is given out with confidence. At least the "practical" side of the book represents a small portion and there is still valuable information to gather from other chapters.