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Nature Wants Us to Be Fat: The Surprising Science Behind Why We Gain Weight and How We Can Prevent--and Reverse--It

4.29 (216 ratings by Goodreads)

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By (author): Richard Johnson

2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST HEALTH: GENERAL

It is exceptionally well organized and presented, making it an ideal and highly recommended addition to personal, community, college, and university library Health/Medicine collections. Midwest Book Review

Nature puts a survival switch in our bodies to protect us from starvation. Stuck in the on position, its the hidden source of weight gain, heart disease, and many other common health struggles. But you can turn it off.


Dr. Richard Johnson has been on the cutting edge of research into the cause of obesity for more than a decade. His teams discovery of the fructose-powered survival switcha metabolic pathway that animals in nature turn on and off as needed, but that our modern diet has permanently fixed in the on position, where it becomes a fat switchrevolutionized the way we think about why we gain weight. 

In Nature Wants Us to Be Fat, he details the mounting evidence on how this switch is responsible both for excess fat storage and for many of the major diseases endemic to the Western world, including heart disease, cancer, and dementia. Dr. Johnson also reveals the surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout, kidney disease, liver disease, strokeand even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD. And, most important, he shares a science-based plan to help readers fight back against nature.

Guided by ongoing clinical researchplus fascinating observations from the animal kingdom, evolution, and historyDr. Johnson takes you along on an eye-opening investigation into: 


  • What you can do to turn off your survival switch
  • What we have in common with hibernating bears, sperm whales, and the worlds fattest bird
  • Why its fructose (not glucose) that drives insulin resistance and metabolic disease
  • The foods we eat that trigger the body to make its own fructose
  • The surprising role salt and dehydration play in fat accumulation
  • The surprising link between the survival switch and health conditions such as gout and liver and kidney diseases, and even behavioral issues like addiction and ADHD
 Dr. Johnson not only provides new recommendations for how we can prevent or treat obesity, but also how we can use this information to reduce our risk of developing disease. Nature wants us to be fat, and when we understand why, we gain the tools we need to lose weight and optimize our health. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 442g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Feb 2022
  • Publisher: BenBella Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781637740347

About Richard Johnson

Dr. Richard Johnson is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado and is both a clinician educator and researcher. He is board certified in internal medicine infectious diseases and kidney disease and is the founding editor of Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology one of the main textbooks on kidney disease.  For more than 20 years he has led research on the cause of obesity and diabetes with especial interest in the role of sugar (especially fructose) and uric acid. His research has been highly cited published in top medical journals and supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health. He is the author of The Sugar Fix and The Fat Switch. His latest work contains state-of-the art discoveries on the cause of obesity and potential cures. Currently Dr. Johnson lives in Colorado with his wife kids and two rambunctious puppies.

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