What's wrong with the diet? Physiological component of the diet.

Chapter 3. Uniqueness and features of the book.

What we are researching: What method do authors of Non-Fiction books use and what is its essence?

What's new: Which method do I use and what is its advantage?

What we will learn: How to identify a reliable source of knowledge?

Before continuing with the book on diets, I see the need to show the difference between my book and many others (Author).

I. Unique content and characteristics of the book. The uniqueness of the book lies in the three fundamental principles that distinguish the book "What's Wrong with the Diet? Physiological component of diet." What are these principles?

1. Review of the whole picture. Books in the Non-Fiction genre are written according to the method of reductionism in biology. The essence of this method can be described as a "divide and conquer" approach to human research. It is based on the assumption that the complexity of an organism can be understood by breaking it down into simpler pieces and therefore more amenable to problem-solving (Chapters 29 to 35 on the effectiveness of treatment for eating disorders, obesity, and bariatric surgery). What does it mean? Scientists have divided a person into fragments: heredity/genes, culture, nutrition, behavior, motor activity, physiology, morphology, psychology, etc. When a disease occurs, they try to find the cause and solution to the problem not in the whole person, but in one fragment, very rarely in two, without taking into account the others and their interaction. As a result, it is impossible to find the true cause of the problem. This approach has become the dominant theory of science over the past two centuries (Ahn AC, Tewari M, Poon CS, Phillips RS. 2006). [1]. Authors of self-help books do the same thing: "Often the messages of self-help books are huge simplifications that distort part of the truth of the whole..." (Paul, A.M. 2001).  [2]. As a result, as the proverb goes, "You can't see the forest for the individual trees." In other words, no one sees the whole picture of diseases. This is the main reason why year after year, despite all the efforts of modern medicine and many readers of books in the Non-Fiction genre, there is only a progressive increase in obesity and eating disorders. This suggests that this approach is fundamentally wrong, as confirmed by scientific research (Heng HH. 2008) [3], (Ahn AC, Tewari M, Poon CS, Phillips RS. 2006). [1]. Therefore, in my book, I proceeded from the principle opposite to reductionism - synthesis. Technically, this means putting together narrow-profile pieces of knowledge, like in a puzzle, into one picture of a person's illness, taking into account his individuality (Chapter 24. Summary: "individuality as a whole" (Chapters 14-23)). In other words, a person's characteristics: current diet, physical activity, food choices, worldview, knowledge, heredity, culture, etc. fit like puzzle pieces into one picture and interact with each other. Therefore, like a puzzle, the book consists of fragments of chapters, which, in turn, consist of numbered paragraph fragments, starting with the epigraph and ending with a summary. As a result, it will be easier for the reader to see connections between the chapters and paragraphs of the book. The synthesis of chapters and paragraphs serves the integrity of the book. It increases the possibility of clearly understanding the whole picture of the interaction of fragments in a person's life that cause disease. This approach increases the chances of treating obesity and eating disorders. Example of a symbol: (fr. 7.2; 12.2, 7) - this means that this link points to a fragment of chapter 7, paragraph 2, and a fragment of chapter 12, paragraphs 2 and 7. The subsequent review of the whole picture provides the opportunity for the person himself to see the reason(s) for his disease. (Chapter "Overview of the whole picture").

2. Modern scientific discoveries. Self-help books base their advice on outdated or misunderstood scientific findings (Bergsma, A. 2008). [4]. (Paul, A.M. 2001).  [2].  As such advice spreads, it snowballs into various superstitions. Here are some of the important examples from the book. A prime example of this is the belief in an inherited obesity or eating disorder gene (Heine S.J. et al. 2017). [5]. Outdated scientific theories include the classification of individual body shapes according to the type of body composition of German scientist E. Kretschmer and the American scientist W. Sheldon (Kretschmer, 1925).  [6],  (Sheldon, 1940). [7]. (Chapter 15 "Morphological Individuality"). These theories still have a formative influence on the negative body image that is associated with the disease anorexia nervosa. Also, a powerful influence on the individual diet due to ignorance of the physiological and biochemical diversity of humans. (Chapter 16 "Physiological Individuality" and Chapter 17 "Biochemical Individuality").  That's why I used the latest, most accessible research on obesity and eating disorders in my book.