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Le secret pour mincir? Manger plus gras !

Un nouveau régime venu tout droit des USA s’apprête à bouleverser les habitudes alimentaires actuelles ainsi que les a-priori contre les matières grasses. De plus en plus de spécialistes du monde entier semblent confirmer cette théorie : manger moins de gras n’est pas forcement une bonne idée.

En France, le magazine ELLE vient de consacrer un reportage à cette nouvelle tendance, qui plaira aux plus gourmands.

Et au printemps 2016, HarperOne publiera l’ouvrage des pionniers du « Mangez plus gras », le très médiatisé Jonny Bowden et le Dr. Steven Masley :

EAT MORE FAT, LOSE MORE WEIGHT
The Fat Solution to Shed Pounds, Reverse Chronic Illness, and Finally Feel Fantastic!
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., and Steven Masley, M.D
HarperOne | Spring 2016

Low-fat diets have made us fatter and sicker than ever, and eating fat has gotten a bad rap. But recently there has been a lot of buzz and research in the health world about the benefits of a higher fat diet. In fact, doctors and health practitioners, Paleo fanatics and trainers, plant-based researchers and vegans, and high-protein, low-sugar, and gluten-free experts all actually agree that the average dieter is eating way too little fat. When dieters stop swapping out butter, stop replacing red meat, and ditch the low-fat and no-fat diet foods, they lose more weight and reduce their risk of disease.
Healthy fats are the new low-carb. And eating more fat is the key to losing weight faster, reversing many everyday symptoms and chronic illnesses, and looking and feeling amazing. But how much fat is too much? What sources of fat are the healthiest? And how do you eat fat to burn fat? This is not your mother’s Atkins. In EAT MORE FAT, LOSE MORE WEIGHT, a bestselling nutritionist and a bestselling physician will change how readers think about fat and offer readers three healthy weight loss solutions tailored to their specific needs—The Mediterranean Fat Solution, The Paleo Fat Solution, and The Ketosis Fat Solution—that will have them feeling, thinking, and looking better than they have in years. The right fats will address cravings. They will nourish brain and heart health. And they will reverse metabolic syndrome and increase weight loss.

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D, C.N.S. is a board certified nutritionist and nationally acclaimed author of The Great Cholesterol Myth, which has sold over 100000 copies, and 13 other books, which have sold more than an additional 800000 copies.
Steven Masley, M.D. is a renowned physician and the former medical director of the Pritikin Longevity Center. His recent book, The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up, has sold nearly 50,000 hardcovers in its first four months of publication.

A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE fait la couverture de The Spectator

Dans A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE: GENES, RACE AND HUMAN HISTORY, Nicholas Wade énonce sa courageuse théorie sur les races et les différences génétiques.

Un ouvrage destiné à relancer un ancien débat, tout en évitant la dérive raciste : publié il y a une semaine, l’essai de ce journaliste du New York Times a déjà fait la couverture de The Spectator, le plus ancien magazine en langue anglaise, a reçu une longue et favorable critique du Wall Street Journal et a fait son début dans le Top 25 des livres scientifiques de la dernière New York Times Bestseller List.

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story

A TROUBLESOME INHERITANCE: GENES, RACE AND HUMAN HISTORY
by Nicholas Wade
Penguin Press (USA & Canada), May 2014

“It is hard to convey how rich this book is….The book is a delight to read—conversational and lucid. And it will trigger an intellectual explosion the likes of which we haven’t seen for a few decades….At the heart of the book, stated quietly but with command of the technical literature, is a bombshell….So one way or another, A Troublesome Inheritance will be historic. Its proper reception would mean enduring fame. » —The Wall Street Journal

atroublesomeFew ideas have been more toxic or harmful, or have been used for worse ends, than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from each other. But Nicholas Wade, inconvenient as it may be, believes that there is truth in this view. Race is inherently not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart from each other and for longer periods of time, the more they will evolve their own distinct, separate traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. Wade’s most controversial claims involve the genetic basis of human social habits, such as the genetic basis for the tendency to be more or less violent. Inevitably such assertions get caught up in questions of “better” and “worse,” which are pernicious; Wade argues the more subtle point that some traits are more adaptive for some specific environments than others and that science needs to set its course for the truth, come what may, taboos or no. With brave, scrupulous care and lucidity, Wade forays into this scientific minefield and endeavors to arrive at a coherent summary of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history. This will not be the final word on the subject, but it will begin a mighty and in some respects overdue conversation.

FLASH BOYS, A WALL STREET REVOLT : le nouveau Michael Lewis enfin dévoilé

Mise à jour du 16 juin 2015: droits cédés au Sousol

Tenu secret pendant des mois, le nouveau titre de Michael Lewis, auteur du bestseller THE BIG SHORT (LE CASSE DU SIÈCLE, Sonatine Éditions), que Brad Pitt et Paramount Picture veulent porter sur grand écran, est sorti hier aux États-Unis.

La publication a été annoncée par un article du New York Magazine et par un reportage de CBS News.

FLASH BOYS: A WALL STREET REVOLT

Michael Lewis

WW Norton, March 31st 2014

If you still imagine Wall Street as a bunch of alpha males standing on trading floor and shouting at each other…you need to forget that image.

That world is dead. Now, the world’s money is traded by computer code, inside black boxes in heavily guarded buildings. Even the experts entrusted with your money don’t know what’s happening to it. And the very few who do aren’t about to tell – because they’re making a killing.  This is a market that’s rigged, out of control and out of sight; a market in which the chief need is for speed; and in which traders would do anything to gain a microsecond. Blink, and you’ll miss it.

In FLASH BOYS, Michael Lewis tells the explosive story of how one group of ingenious oddballs and misfits set out to expose what was going on. It’s the story of what it’s like to declare war on some of the richest and most powerful people in the world. It’s about taking on an entire system. And it’s about the madness that has taken hold of the financial markets today. And at its center a firm called IEX that has created a separate exchange where everyone — fast or super fast — is safe to trade.  And the story is told with Michael Lewis’s usual incredible flair best described by Malcolm Gladwell: “I read Michael Lewis for the same reason I watch Tiger Woods. I’ll never play like that. But it’s good to be reminded every now and again what genius looks like.”

Rights have already been sold in the UK (Penguin) and Germany (Campus).