Ever Seen a Fat Fox?

Ever Seen a Fat Fox?

Author: Michael J. Gibney

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781910820087

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Ever seen a fat fox? Didn't think so. Why it is that only humans - or animals in the care of humans - develop obesity? In Ever Seen a Fat Fox?: Human Obesity Explored Professor Mike Gibney delves into the history of the human relationship with food. He traces the evolution of our modern diet and looks to science to offer solutions to the phenomenon of human obesity. He calls on governments to cease the single-issue ad-hoc approach and demands a massive governmental long-term investment in weight management. It is a commonly held belief that obesity is a recent phenomenon. Professor Gibney reveals that obesity is nothing new - in fact, the modern upward trend in obesity began in the mid-nineteenth century. Obesity has been part of human experience whenever and wherever we've had affluence. There are many who seek to apportion blame for the epidemic of obesity. Blaming the food industry for obesity is always popular: sugar is public enemy number one. Debunking exaggerated views and cutting through the mixed messaging Gibney demonstrates that most food processing techniques are old, hundreds and thousands of years old.The genetics of obesity, the practice of dieting, and the value of physical activity are thoroughly assessed.The failures of the players in obesity - including the media, scientists, academic organisations, international agencies, specifically the WHO, and the food industry are brought into sharp focus. What can we learn from the fox? An expert in public health and personalised nutrition with bestselling books and over 300 peer-reviewed papers in the area, Professor Mike Gibney uncovers the full story behind obesity based on painstaking research, and offers us tangible solutions to this very human phenomenon.


Gerald the Very Fat Fox

Gerald the Very Fat Fox

Author: Leah Crichton

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-11-02

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781502851314

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This rhyming children's book features Gerald the Fox, who takes a stroll one snowy winters day. When disaster strikes, he finds himself in a tight situation and he wishes he had listened to his Mummy! It is his woodland friends who come to the rescue in this exciting, poetic and richly illustrated children's book. This glorious new adventure from an author and illustrator team, delivers an encouraging healthy eating message to young children.


Fat Chance

Fat Chance

Author: Robert H. Lustig

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-12-27

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1101606584

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New York Times Bestseller Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. Compelling, controversial, and completely based in science, Fat Chance debunks the widely held notion to prove “a calorie is NOT a calorie”, and takes that science to its logical conclusion to improve health worldwide.


Fat White Vampire Blues

Fat White Vampire Blues

Author: Andrew Fox

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2003-07-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0345464443

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He’s undead, overweight, and can’t get a date Vampire, nosferatu, creature of the night—whatever you call him—Jules Duchon has lived (so to speak) in New Orleans far longer than there have been drunk coeds on Bourbon Street. Weighing in at a whopping four hundred and fifty pounds, swelled up on the sweet, rich blood of people who consume the fattiest diet in the world, Jules is thankful he can’t see his reflection in a mirror. When he turns into a bat, he can’t get his big ol’ butt off the ground. What’s worse, after more than a century of being undead, he’s watched his neighborhood truly go to hell—and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out altogether. See, Jules had always been an equal opportunity kind of vampire. And while he would admit that the blood of a black woman is sweeter than the blood of a white man, Jules never drank more than his fair share of either. Enter Malice X . Young, cocky, and black, Malice warns Jules that his days of feasting on sisters and brothers are over. He tells Jules he’d better confine himself to white victims—or else face the consequences. And then, just to prove he isn’t kidding, Malice burns Jules’s house to the ground. With the help of Maureen, the morbidly obese, stripper-vampire who made him, and Doodlebug, an undead cross-dresser who (literally) flies in from the coast—Jules must find a way to contend with the hurdles that life throws at him . . . without getting a stake through the heart. It’s enough to give a man the blues.


The Silurian, Book 6: The Fox on the Water

The Silurian, Book 6: The Fox on the Water

Author: L.A. Wilson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0648742423

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THE SILURIAN, BOOK Six: THE FOX on the Water A MIGHTY SAGA OVER THE SEA Arthur is gone from Britain, over the seas to fight for his Breton allies, and Bedwyr is left behind. Arthur is gone for years, and how long can the Fox stand being separated in this cruel way? Always rebellious, Bedwyr leaves his homeland and barters for passage to Armorica on a Norseman's long-boat, sailing him over the 'Whale Roads' to find Arthur and bring him home to Britain. Now in a new land to chase the king; a land where Merlin had prophesied that Bedwyr would die in battle, the Fox fights again to the ends of his endurance for Arthur, defying the old druid's prophesy, before returning home to Britain to once again to face death, reunions, betrayals, and changes so great, the final casting of his spear sees the Fox and the Bear take their first steps to Avalon...


Whoever You Are

Whoever You Are

Author: Mem Fox

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9780152060664

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Despite the differences between children around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love. Inside they are the same.


The United States of Excess

The United States of Excess

Author: Robert Paarlberg

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-02

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0199922632

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Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of. Is it possible that America is hard-wired to consume too much food and fuel? Unfortunately, yes, says Robert Paarlberg in The United States of Excess. America's excess is driven in each case by its distinct endowment of material and demographic resources, its unusually weak national political institutions, and a unique political culture that celebrates both individual freedoms over social responsibility, and free markets over governmental authority. America's over-consumption is shown to be over-determined. Because of these powerful underlying circumstances, America's strongest policy response, both to climate change and obesity, will be adaptation rather than mitigation. As the damaging consequences of climate change become manifest, America will not impose adequate measures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, attempting instead to protect itself from storms and sea-level rise through costly infrastructure upgrades. In response to the damaging health consequences of obesity, America will opt for medical interventions and physical accommodations, rather than the policy measures that would be needed to induce better diets or more exercise. These adaptation responses will generate serious equity problems, both at home and abroad. Responding to obesity with medical interventions will fall short for those in America most prone to obesity - racial minorities and the poor - since these groups have never enjoyed adequate access to quality health care. Responding to climate change by building more resilient infrastructures at home, while allowing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to continue their increase, will impose greater climate disruption on poor tropical countries, which are far less capable of self-protection. Awareness of these inequities must be the starting point toward altering America's current path.


Stop Making Excuses and Start Living With Energy

Stop Making Excuses and Start Living With Energy

Author: Alyssa Abbey

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-03-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 1906465975

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Want to energise your life? Need a bit more get up and go? Fed up with the Friday night collaspse or the 4 o’clock wobbles? Never have the energy to seize the day? We all have the potential for boundless energy and Alyssa Abbey is here to show us how to unleash it. Kiss goodbye to the exhausted evenings flopped on the sofa and say hello to life, love and happiness. Learn how to banish those excuses and increase your physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual energy. Stop Making Excuses and Start Living With Energy is packed with worksheets, questionnaires and top tips to help you compile a practical and realistic plan for vitality and happiness. At last, simple answers to making busy people feel better!


A Fox Called Woff

A Fox Called Woff

Author: Leslie Austin

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2013-06-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1481762206

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This is a fictional survival story about a young fox ripped from his family in a harsh mountain region. Unique obstacles from raging river rapids, cruel humans, chasing bloodhounds, bloodthirsty wolves, and hungry bears all offer challenges to conquer. Unexpected help comes in many unusual ways and strong bonds are formed along his path. This is a journey of growth through danger, love and faith. This perilous adventure awaits your vivid imagination. If you dare to enter into A Fox Called Woff's world! Heading straight towards the blood-thirsty lynx, thoughts start rambling around inside his brain. They bounce around his head faster than his legs are running. "What am I going to do? Am I going to fight him? Are they all dead? Am I crazy or is this just a dream? Where is Mom? We are all going to die?! No I must save them even if it means . . ." WHAM, Woff rams straight into the side of the grinning cat with a complete disregard for the safety of his own body.