Why do most diets fail? Why does one person eat a certain meal & gain weight while another eating the same meal loses pounds? Why despite all the advice about what to eat are we all still getting fatter? The answers are much more surprising
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- than we've been led to believe The key to health & weight loss lies not in the latest fad diet nor even in the simple mantra of 'eat less exercise more' but in the microbes already inside us Drawing on the latest science & his own pioneering research Professor Tim Spector demystifies the common misconceptions about fat calories vitamins & nutrients Only by understanding what makes our own personal microbes tick can we overcome the confusion of modern nutrition & achieve a healthy gut & a healthy body