Supersize Vs Superskinny: Take Control of Your Weight - Tapa blanda

The world has gone diet mad. There is a new celebrity eating plan every week, sales of slimming products are soaring, and we all count the calories. Yet this obsession with our diet does not seem to be making us any thinner, or any healthier. One in four adults in the UK are now classified as clinically obese while at the same time 1.1 million of us suffer from an eating disorder. Something clearly needs to be done. In Supersize Vs Superskinny, Dr Christian Jessen uses science, medicine and most importantly common sense to help us get back on track. There are explanatory chapters outlining why we're so obsessed with our weight and body image, and exactly why it is so dangerous to be supersize or superskinny, followed by practical chapters to help us understand our own behavior and change our relationship with food for the better. Topping it all off, there are eating plans and recipes to help you find a healthy balance and reach your ideal weight, whatever your current size. Supportive, practical, informed and beautifully illustrated, Supersize Vs Superskinny is the perfect book for anyone wishing to take control of their weight and learn more about how to have a happy, healthy attitude towards food.

The world has gone diet mad – more than three-quarters of us equate being happy with being slim and almost of all of us are counting the calories. But this is the reality check: 24 million adults in the UK are overweight and 25 per cent of us are clinically obese, while 5 per cent are dangerously underweight. With a new celebrity diet published every week, it's hard to know which way to turn. How exactly can we take control of our weight? Fear not, for Dr Christian Jessen is here to help. Exploring why we are obsessed by weight and body image, his practical, down-to-earth advice will help us: · understand why it is so dangerous to be supersize or superskinny · identify our personal eating triggers · conquer our individual food hang-ups · change our emotional relationship with food forever. Detailed food facts plus a delicious selection of lean recipes show us how to cook healthily at home, and there's also an ‘Extra Helpings’ chapter from Gillian McKeith to lift the lid on the country’s most popular meals and show us how making the right food choices means we can eat more not less. Once we know just how much our wellbeing – and our shape – depends on eating a healthy, balanced diet, the easier it becomes. It is quite simple. Eating well is good for us, eating well is pleasurable and we all need food. So go on – enjoy it!