Book Reference Links
Things change fast on the web. Since The Great Fat Fraud was published, a number of links have changed and a few papers that were available in full are now only available in abstract. We will continue to check all the links on a regular basis. However, if you find a link that is not working, please let us know.
Links for Chapter 3 – Fitlessness
1. BMI and Mortality: Results from a National Longitudinal Study of Canadian Adults.
2. Report on the Sanitary Condition of Tailors in London. In Report of the Medical Officer, London, The Privy Council, 1864:416-430 as reported in A History of Physical Activity, Health and Medicine.
3. Coronary heart disease and the physical activity of work. (Not available for free online) A history of physical activity, cardiovascular health and longevity: the scientific contributions of Jeremy N Morris is available online.
4. Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality, A Prospective Study of Healthy Men and Women (Abstract only)
5. Exercise capacity and mortality among men referred for exercise testing
6. Exercise capacity and mortality in black and white men
Links for Chapter 4 – Drs. Morris, Blair, Wei et al. Turn the World Upside down – No One Notices
2. Physical Fitness and All-Cause Mortality, A Prospective Study of Healthy Men and Women (Abstract only)
3. Physical fitness, mortality and obesity. International Journal of Obesity and Related Metabolic Disorders. (Not available for free online)
4. US weight guidelines: Is it also important to consider cardiorespiratory fitness? (Abstract only)
6. Effects of physical inactivity and obesity on morbidity and mortality: Current evidence and research issues. (Abstract only)
Box. Adiposity as Compared with Physical Activity in Predicting Mortality among Women
Links for Chapter 5 – But How Can That Be?
1. Hunter-Gatherers and Human Evolution
Links for Chapter 6 – If the Answer is 10,000, the Question is…?
1. Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Aerobics – Available used at Amazon
2. Dr. Kenneth Cooper, The Aerobics Way– Available used at Amazon
5. Walking Compared with Vigorous Exercise for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Women
7. Dr. Ralph S. Paffenbarger and Eric Olsen – LifeFit – Available from Amazon
8. Effects of exercise on coronary risk factors in obese middle aged subjects (Abstract Only)
8a. Prediction of maximal oxygen consumption. Comparison of the Bruce and Balke treadmill protocols
10. How many steps/day are enough? Preliminary pedometer indices for public health (Abstract only)
11. BMI referenced cut points for pedometer-determined steps per day in adults
12. Interview with David Bassett by Carol Krucoff
13a. Relationship between Accumulated Walking and Body Composition in Middle-Aged Women (Abstract Only)
Links for Chapter 7 – It’s All about How I Look, Stupid
1. Linda Bacon, Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight – Available from Amazon
2. Some places to start would include:
3. Size acceptance and intuitive eating improve health for obese, female chronic dieters
4. Short-term effects of a “health-at-every-size” approach on eating behaviors and appetite ratings
5. Health-At-Every-Size and eating behaviors: 1-year follow-up results of a size acceptance intervention (Abstract only)
Links for Chapter 8 – I Still Want to Take it Off, I Want to Take It All Off
1. A Meta-Analysis of Pedometer-Based Walking Interventions and Weight Loss (Click “Begin Manual Download” button if the does not jump automatically to the .pdf file)
2. Linda Bacon, Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight – Available from Amazon
Chapter 9 – Dieting and Fitness – Perfect Together?
1. Exercise as an adjunct to weight loss and maintenance in moderately obese subjects
Chapter 11 – I Don’t Eat That Much – Why Can’t I Keep the %#&*^# Weight Off?
1. The Truth about Dieting. Contact your local library for online access.
Chapter 12 – Keeping it Off
1. Exercise as an adjunct to weight loss and maintenance in moderately obese subjects
2. Effect of exercise on 24-month weight loss maintenance in overweight women
3. Does physical activity prevent weight gain–a systematic review (Abstract only)
4. Appropriate physical activity intervention strategies for weight loss and prevention of weight regain for adults (Abstract Only)
Chapter 13 – 10,000 Does It Again
1. Physical Activity and Weight Gain Prevention
2. The LA Times, March 24, 2010
3. The Cleveland Leader, March 24, 2010
4. Bloomberg Business Week, March 23, 2010
Chapter 14 – Getting to 10,000
1 – Rails-To -Trails – Google Maps
Chapter 19 – Committing Hari Kari – Non-Fatal (Mostly) Version
1. Wikipedia entry for bariatric surgery
2. Marketdata Enterprises’ website, Diet Busine$$Watch
4. Impact of gastric bypass operation on survival: a population-based analysis
5. Healthcare utilization and outcomes after bariatric surgery (Abstract only)
6. Long-term Outcomes of Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (Abstract only)
7. SELF Magazine: The Miracle Weight Loss that isn’t
8. Obesity Surgery Information Center
9. Impact of gastric bypass operation on survival: a population-based analysis
10. Long-term mortality after gastric bypass surgery
11. Survival Among High-Risk Patients After Bariatric Surgery
12. Bloomberg news article, December 3, 2010
Chapter 20 – Weight Loss Drugs – Forcing a Healthy System to Malfunction
1. Handbook of Obesity Treatment
2. Wikipedia entry for Orlistat
3. FDA safety review for Orlistat
4. Roche’s diet drug tied to kidney damage
6. DrugLib.com
Chapter 21 – Weight Loss Programs
1. Systematic review: an evaluation of major commercial weight loss programs in the United States (Abstract only)
2. Three-year follow-up of participants in a commercial weight loss program. Can you keep it off? (Abstract only)
2a. Editorial
Chapter 23 – The Magic, Glowing Amberonium-Zircrohmic Weight Loss Pentagon
1. YouTube video showing Antonio Krastev setting a world record of 475 pounds in the snatch competition
2. Recall of Joyful Slim Herb Supplement
3. Case series on a diversity of illicit weight-reducing agents: from the well known to the unexpected
4. Bloomberg Businessweek February27, 2011
Chapter 24 – The Obesity Reseachaganda Machine Just Keeps Going, and Going, and Going
1. Obesity Care May Cost Twice Previous Estimates
2. Nearly 30% of Americans Likely to Have Diabetes by 2050
3. Unitedhealth Predicts $3.4 Trillion Diabetes Decade
4. Life Expectancy for Today’s Youth Cut Short by Obesity
5. Cost of Obesity Approaching $300 Billion a Year
7. Why Are Men Getting So Tubby?
8. Bariatric Surgery Cuts Pounds, and Adds Years
9. Study: Being Even a Little Fat a Health Risk
10. Global Obesity Rates Are Doubling: New Worldwide Study
Chapter 25 – Celebrating “Obesity Epidemic” Day
1. Actual Causes of Death in the United States, 2000 (Abstract only)
2. Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health – Available from Amazon
3. Height, weight and mortality. The Norwegian experience. Not available online.
4. Fat Politics: The Real Story behind America’s Obesity Epidemic – Available from Amazon
5. Linda Bacon, Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight – Available from Amazon
6a. Obesity to Surpass Tobacco as Top Us Killer
6b. Government: Obesity, Inactivity Nearly as Deadly as Tobacco in US
Chapter 26 – Something Is Very Rotten in Denmark
1. Linda Bacon, Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight – Available from Amazon
2. Public Enemy Number One: Tobacco or Obesity? (Abstract Only)
