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Magic Pill

Безкоштовна доставка
1070 грн
Кількість сторінок
320
Видавництво
Обкладинка
Тверда
Рік видання
2024
Мова
Англійська
Розмір
145x216x28 мм
Вага
420 г
Ілюстрації
Без ілюстрацій
Тип книжки
Паперова
Тип паперу
Офсетний
ISBN
978-0-526-67014-4
Штрихкод
9781526670144
Артикул
516322602648
1070 грн

Про книжку

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it—from his personal experience on Ozempic to our ability to heal our society’s dysfunctional relationship with food, weight, and our bodies.

In January 2023, Johann Hari started to inject himself once a week with Ozempic, one of the new drugs that produces significant weight loss. He wasn’t alone—some predictions suggest that in a few years, a quarter of the U.S. population will be taking these drugs. While around 80 percent of diets fail, someone taking one of the new drugs will lose up to a quarter of their body weight in six months. To the drugs’ defenders, here is a moment of liberation from a condition that massively increases your chances of diabetes, cancer, and an early death.

Still, Hari was wildly conflicted. Can these drugs really be as good as they sound? Are they a magic solution—or a magic trick? Finding the answer to this high-stakes question led him on a journey from Iceland to Minneapolis to Tokyo, and to interview the leading experts in the world on these questions. He found that along with the drug’s massive benefits come twelve significant potential risks.

He also found that these drugs radically challenge what we think we know about shame, willpower, and healing. What do they reveal about the nature of obesity itself? What psychological issues begin to emerge when our eating patterns are suddenly disrupted? Are the drugs a liberation or a further symptom of our deeply dysfunctional relationship with food?

These drugs are about to change our world, for better and for worse. Everybody needs to understand how they work—scientifically, emotionally, and culturally. Magic Pill is an essential guide to the revolution that has already begun, and which one leading expert argues will be as transformative as the invention of the smartphone.

Про автора

Йоган Гарі

Йоган Гарі

3 книжки

Йоганн Гарі — британсько-швейцарський письменник і журналіст. Писав для видань The Independent та The Huffington Post. Автор бестселерів «Chasing the Scream» та «Lost Connections» — книг на теми депресії та боротьби з наркотиками. Його книги перекладені на 40 мов і отримали високу оцінку багатьох відомих людей — Опри Вінфрі, Ноама Хомського, Елтона Джона, Наомі Кляйн тощо. «Мистецтво зосереджуватися. Як у нас вкрали увагу» назвали однією з трьох найкращих книг року за версією Amazon.com, а також книгою року за версією Financial Times, New York Post і Spectator. Вона стала книгою місяця у найбільшій книжковій мережі Великобританії Waterstones і Австралії — Dymocks. Видання названо «Найважливішою книгою року» на Non-Essential Book Awards і «Найкращою книгою року» на Porchlight Book Awards.