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Why Women Need Fat
William D. Lassek, M.D. & Steven J.C. Gaulin, Ph.D.
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Now Reading: Why Women Need Fat
William D. Lassek, M.D. & Steven J.C. Gaulin, Ph.D. Author: William D. Lassek, M.D. & Steven J.C. Gaulin, Ph.D.
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Redefining Our Ideal Body

2/3/12 9:52am by sassymonkey
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I thought that one of the most powerful messages in William D. Lassek, M.D. and Steven J. C. Gaulin's Why Women Need Fat: How "Healthy" Food Make Us Gain Excess Weight and the Surprising Solution to Losing It Forever was that our bodies are at their best when they feel healthiest, not when they were at a certain size or looked a certain way. What the authors were saying is that our thinnest point may not be our healthiest.  Read more >

Do You Know Your Natural Weight?

1/25/12 6:59am by sassymonkey
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In their book Why Women Need Fat: How "Healthy" Food Make Us Gain Excess Weight and the Surprising Solution to Losing It Forever, authors William D. Lassek, M.D. and Steven J. C. Gaulin suggest that we have a natural weight. They advocate that this natural weight is based on our genetics and that our weight is much harder to change than we've been led to believe. To put it simply, we have a weight we're meant to be and for many people it's simply not a size two.  Read more >

"Diets Don't Work." Wait! What?!

1/19/12 2:18pm by sassymonkey
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In their book Why Women Need Fat: How "Healthy" Food Make Us Gain Excess Weight and the Surprising Solution to Losing It Forever, authors William D. Lassek, M.D. and Steven J. C. Gaulin have a chapter titled "Why Dieting Doesn't Work." By the time I time I got to that chapter I had already realized I had misclassified this book as a "diet book" based on the cover. (I know, I know. We're not supposed to do that but admit it, you do it too.) Then the authors went even further -- they claimed that dieting can even cause us to gain more weight.  Read more >

This Means I Get To Use Real Butter, Right?

1/11/12 10:04am by sassymonkey
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In the first section of William D. Lassek and Steven J. C. Gaulin's new book, Why Women Need Fat: How "Healthy" Food Makes Us Gain Excess Weight and the Surprising Solution to Losing It Forever, they look at how the American diet has changed in the past forty years. The authors say that one of the biggest changes we've made is taking a step away from saturated fats, which was supposed to to make us healthier. But has it?  Read more >