Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This book takes a fresh, bold, and deep look at an important human error stemming from the illusions of control and the overestimation of knowledge of the human body and behavior. It shows the mistakes committed when governments, in a top-down and na¿ve manner, try to control our biology. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Distinguished Professor, New York University Polytechnic Institute and author of New York Times best-sellers The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness)
Michael Bliss
'This slim book is fat with data and ideas, and stands on the imaginative frontier of a very fast-moving public policy debate ... It's bound to cause controversy and thought as we face the public health challenge of trying to engineer weight control.'
Michael Bliss, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto, and author of The Making of Modern Medicine and The Discovery of Insulin
David Frum
'Promising, thought-provoking and smart.'
David Frum, best-selling author and adviser to former President George W. Bush
Bertha K Madras
'XXL critically examines the money and policies we're throwing at the obesity epidemic and proposes a new, thoughtful and sensitive approach—healthy living vouchers—that offers meaningful incentives to those who ever have, or ever will, struggle with the emotional and physical battle of weight gain.'
Bertha K Madras, Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School
Bertha K. Madras
XXL critically examines the money and policies we're throwing at the obesity epidemic and proposes a new, thoughtful and sensitive approach—healthy living vouchers—that offers meaningful incentives to those who ever have, or ever will, struggle with the emotional and physical battle of weight gain. (Bertha K Madras, Professor of Psychobiology, Harvard Medical School)
David H. Freedman
This book provides the one thing that's sorely lacking amidst the cacophony of claims about what will fix the obesity crisis: A recognition that this is a massively multi-factorial problem utterly resistant to universal, simple solutions, and that individuals require customized strategies for losing and keeping off weight. The idea that public policy can and must support individualized weight-loss plans is as close to a winner as we're likely to see. (David H. Freedman, best-selling author of Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing UsAnd How to Know When Not to Trust Them, and contributing editor of Inc. Magazine)
Frederick Lowy
XXL offers both an authoritative yet readily accessible review of the relevant science and, even more important, an imaginative proposal for government action. (Frederick Lowy, OC, MD, CM, LLD, President and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus, Concordia University, former Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto)