Book 8 of The Window
The Window That Won't Let Go
Metabolism and the Weight of the Womb
by J. Brandon Hughes
Your body defends a weight it never chose.
Your body defends a weight the way a thermostat defends a heat, which is why diets fail. This book asks who set the number, and finds much of the answer before birth, from the Dutch Hunger Winter to chemicals that tell a cell to store fat. The weight you were given was not a choice.
- The window
- Before birth and early life, when the defended weight is set
- The signal
- The food and chemicals that set the body's thermostat
Contents
Movement One · The Obvious Thing
- Chapter 1 · The Thermostat in the Wall
- Chapter 2 · Why Diets Fail
- Interstitial · The Contestant
Movement Two · You're Kidding Me
- Chapter 3 · The Ledger in Hertfordshire
- Chapter 4 · The Thrifty Forecast
Movement Three · The Proof, and Its Limits
- Interstitial · Tulip Bulbs
- Chapter 5 · The Hunger Winter
- Chapter 6 · The Mismatch
- Chapter 6A · The Control Group History Ran
- Chapter 7 · The Agouti Switch
- Interstitial · The Snails in the Harbour
- Chapter 8 · The Obesogens
- Interstitial · The River They Took
- Chapter 9 · The Other Direction
Movement Four · What It Means, and What to Do
- Chapter 10 · The Way Out
- Chapter 11 · The Arrival
- Interstitial · The Fortified Loaf
- Chapter 12 · The Thousand Days