Got this book from the library. I appreciate the fact that she, as a biochemist, became interested in FAT as a result of her own struggle with weight gain. She explores a lot of science since the 1970s about what fat is and does as an active organ, not just storage. She explores other possible factors in weight/fat management: gut biome, genes, sex, hormones, etc.

In the last section So What is the Solution? she goes off the rails in her "How I Do It" chapter--but after all, that's what prompted her entire research project. If nothing else, she clearly shows that once obesity has occurred, losing weight and keeping it off is a lifelong challenge. One doesn't have to be as obsessed as she is about getting into the "skinny jeans." Self-torture is not a sustainable strategy for most of us.

It's a good fast read, for those perpetually hungry, like me, to know why fat-fighting is so hard. I feel heroic to have achieved any success at all for as long as I have.