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We are getting fat and sick in increasing numbers and it’s placing a devastating burden on our healthcare systems. Scientists in every field are desperate to explain this epidemic and stave off a modern health disaster. But what’s to blame? Carbs, fat or sugar? Gut microbes or genes? Laziness or poverty? In The Truth About Fat, Anthony Warner scrutinises the explanations of academics, doctors, researchers and journalists. As he lays out the best evidence available, he rails against quack theories preying on the desperate and considers whether we are blaming our own bodies for other people's ignorance and cruelty. What remains is the unvarnished truth about one of the great preoccupations of our age.

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`Straight-up, factual and ruthlessly balanced, Warner takes no prisoners when it comes to cutting through the minefield of misconceptions in foodie media. Solid science served up with caustic wit. How can I be more like this guy?' -- James Wong, author of <i>How to Eat Better</i> `There are few subjects more prone to fads, waffle and outright nonsense than dieting. Warner is a fiery beacon of truth, burning through every popular myth, every half-baked diet fad and the legion peddlers of pseudoscientific guff that tell us how and what to eat. Anthony Warner is not the chef we deserve, but he certainly is the angry chef we need right now.' -- Adam Rutherford, author of <i>The Book of Humans</i> and <i>A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived</i> `An essential read for anyone who constantly worries about the modern obsession with diet and weight loss, even though it contains revelations that many will, ironically, find hard to swallow.' -- Dean Burnett, author of <i>The Idiot Brain</i> `Well-documented and accessible information and advice from an author who clearly loves food and cares about people.' * <i>Kirkus</i> *

Cheerfully profane . . . Warner takes on a host of popular ideas about how one should eat. --Booklist Funny and forensic. --Financial Times Summer Books 2017 Informative and amusing . . . The Angry Chef's Guide is full of logical, science-based information. Anyone who is overwhelmed by trying to make sense of the plethora of available diets will find this book freeing. --Foreword Reviews [An] entertainingly acerbic, and reassuringly commonsensical, attack on the myths and pseudoscience behind fad diets and food trends. --Publishers Weekly

`Straight-up, factual and ruthlessly balanced, Warner takes no prisoners when it comes to cutting through the minefield of misconceptions in foodie media. Solid science served up with caustic wit. How can I be more like this guy?' -- James Wong, author of <i>How to Eat Better</i> `There are few subjects more prone to fads, waffle and outright nonsense than dieting. Warner is a fiery beacon of truth, burning through every popular myth, every half-baked diet fad and the legion peddlers of pseudoscientific guff that tell us how and what to eat. Anthony Warner is not the chef we deserve, but he certainly is the angry chef we need right now.' -- Adam Rutherford, author of <i>The Book of Humans</i> and <i>A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived</i> `An essential read for anyone who constantly worries about the modern obsession with diet and weight loss, even though it contains revelations that many will, ironically, find hard to swallow.' -- Dean Burnett, author of <i>The Idiot Brain</i>

`If it wasn't for the fact that there is no God, I'd thank him for bringing us the Angry Chef.' -- Jay Rayner `One by one Warner demolishes popular food myths...this [is] a book that will allow you to enjoy food with less guilt; it might even save lives.' * <i>Guardian</i>, on <i>The Angry Chef</i> *

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Anthony Warner is a professional chef and writer. A regular contributor to New Scientist and The Pool, his work has been featured in the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and other publications. He lives in Nottinghamshire, blogs at angry-chef.com and you can follow him @One_Angry_Chef.

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