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It Deepens the Spiritual Life
The theme of great hunger remains an underlying cause in the study of obesity and depression. INSATIABLE posits—using many authoritative sources—that the human soul loves beauty and desires it, seeking the appeasing fragrances of nature’s beauty (Younghusband, 1921), to quiet the turbulence, at least in the first step. The book’s unique exploration of monasteries and the silence that dwells in them offers a remarkably simple remedy to the reader’s hunger in a rather frenetic world.
It Convincingly Discourages Calorie-Restrictive Diets
U.S. society, since the 1970s, has had a high interest in weight loss as evidenced by the sale of millions of diet books, yet despite this, obesity trends continued to increase. Overall efficacy of caloric-restrictive diets varies between 1-3% when measured over 5 to 7 years after completing the diet. Weight loss diets have clearly failed Americans. Could it be that caloric restrictive diets are actually driving the growth of the obesity epidemic?
The Book Redefines Obesity
INSATIABLE identifies the obesity epidemic more as a symptom of a much more profound social malaise than organic disease. This unique analysis of what has been until now primarily a medical condition attributes this social malady—now defining American society— as a deep insatiable hunger that drives chronic diseases, medical epidemics, and social unrest. Using many interpretive lenses, Dr. Bissonnette draws the reader into an in-depth exploration of many other epidemics such as depression, anxiety, substance abuse, adverse childhood expe-riences, hopelessness, and loneliness, now peppering the American landscape.
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It Explores Deeper Causes
It is simply no longer tenable to argue that obesity is a diversity issue. It is a medical problem of colossal proportions, that just simply will not go away, unless the deep-rooted origins of this epidemic are exposed—something INSATIABLE successfully does. The book uncovers the historical record confirming that the obesity crisis grew during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries when the cultural celebration of gluttony began among the aristocracies of Europe; it was a celebration of vice that carried over to the 19th century right up until our present times.
Explore how nutrition, medicine, history, sociology, philosophy, theology, and spirituality conspire together to offer a complete understanding of the modern-day obesity epidemic, and the many chronic diseases and a long-lasting remedy.
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We All Have a Deep Insatiable Hunger
As a nation, we have a deep-rooted hunger for food that created an obesity epidemic that has brought our healthcare costs to the brink of insolvency. What is driving this hunger? We are spiritual souls that hunger for truth, who desire to possess truth, and all are given graces to ascend to truth himself, God.
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Redefining medical and social upheavals of our times
Explore how nutrition and spirituality conspire together to offer a complete understanding of the modern-day obesity epidemic, and a long-lasting remedy.
About Dr David J Bissonnette
Dr. Bissonnette is an Associate Professor of Nutrition and has been teaching nutrition at various universities since 1993 and doing research in several areas: 1-The effects of nutritional support on malnutrition and trauma; 2- The impact of artificial sweeteners on weight gain; 3-Assessing and detection of sarcopenia in obesity; 4-Comprehensively studying the impact of obesity and family breakdown on American society.
He has presented at national and international conferences on the topics of malnutrition and disease, and obesity. Additionally, he produced three comprehensive educational documentaries:
1. Obesity in America: A National Crisis which is distributed by Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Web-link: https://www.films.com/id/24027
2. A Diabetic Nation: An American Tragedy: Web-link: https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/diabetic-nation-american-tragedy
3. Depression the Whole Truth. Web-link: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/depressionthewholetruth
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Dr. Bissonnette wrote two nutrition textbooks between 2009 and 2013 for undergraduate Freshmen and for majors in the health science fields of nursing, dietetics, and medicine.
1. Nutrition for Healthcare Professionals: An Introduction for Disease Prevention [ISBN: 978-152498377-2]. Web-link: https://he.kendallhunt.com/product/nutrition-healthcare-professionals-introduction-disease-prevention
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2. Nutrition Revolution: Influencing the Medical and Social Determinants of Health [ISBN: 978-0-578-31936-0]. Web-link: www.stjudenutrition.org
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The research for INSATIABLE began in 1995, but it was in 2012 that he committed significant time and focus to completing the book. Despite the scientific literature confirming that diet restrictions had a significant failure rate (97%), the fields of dietetics and medicine still persist in prescribing caloric restrictive diets; something was not right with the paradigm of care given to the obese. Let's face it, diet restrictions have been the main therapeutic modality since the time of Hippocrates. Have we not learned anything since that time? INSATIABLE investigate the multifaceted causes behind obesity and drills down deep into the historical, societal, religious, theological, philosophical, and indeed the medical causes of this epidemic.
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