Fat: The Body, Food and Obesity

A comprehensive guide to our body, our food, and what we must do—and guard against—to keep ourselves and our children healthy and energized. • Why have we Indians become so suddenly, and so quickly, obese? • Why are our children overweight? Will they be diabetic and hypertensive before they are thirty? • What is making us overweight? Is it our ‘homefood’ or ‘outsidefood’? • What happens to food once we eat it, and how is it linked to obesity? • And if we are obese, what can we do about it? In Fat, doctors Ishrat Syed and Kalpana Swaminathan meld the newest research with their own clinical experience to answer these questions