Tortoise and hare methods of weight loss could both work, says Phil Hammond
New year, new weight-loss books. In this seasons crop the bariatric surgeon Andrew Jenkinson and the former MP Tom Watson go head to head with Why We Eat (Too Much) and Downsizing. They both advocate a familiar approach: improving sleep, reducing stress, cutting back on alcohol, keeping muscles active, shunning sugary food and drink and learning to cook nutritious and delicious meals from a variety of whole foods with a predominance of vegetables but no industrial vegetable oils (which, Jenkinson reminds us, we used to use for candles and lantern fluid).
The key difference is speed. Jenkinson, who has spent two decades operating on those whose repeated cycles of diets and exercise programmes have failed, advises a steady approach that slowly lowers the bodys genetic
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