As well as risks for the individual which come with being overweight - including circulatory diseases, diabetes, and some forms of cancer - obesity also affects society, with the cost of related health problems expected to cause a crisis in the NHS if trends continue. This book looks at how and why we should stay fit.

Speaking to behavioural scientists and industry experts, yo-yo dieters and people who have gone under the knife, Sarah Boseley builds a picture of an obesogenic society - one where we're constantly bombarded by the twin evils of big budget food marketing and the diet industry.

'Fat is a Feminist Issue' shows how fat is not about food but rather about protection, sex, mothering, strength, assertion, anger, love. By understanding your investment in being fat, you can turn food into a friend.

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes, refused to make connections between her weight and health issues and told herself that she was fat and happy. She was certainly fat. But the happy part was an Oscar-winning performance. In private she lived with a growing sense of fear and misery that it would probably kill her before she made it to seventy. Interwoven with...

Includes 100 recipes for healthy meals, to be eaten in conjunction with work-out plans. From the author of the bestselling }The Body Bible{, it uses 7 deconstructed food plates from a post-work out plate to a rest day plate. Alice's Instagram following now tops a quarter of a million.