Why Henry VIII Got Fat: Secrets we can discover about weight-loss from famous 'big' people

Join aromatherapist and author Mia Campbell as she delves into the past to find out why seven famous people struggled with their weight.

If you struggle with weight or health issues, you may think it's a modern thing. After all, we're bombarded with junk food, food advertising, chemical and sugar-laden treats wherever we look.

Weight problems, obesity, and weight-related health problems are far from a modern curse though. This book looks at seven people who struggled with their weight and, in many cases, ruined their health due to their efforts to lose weight. They are:

• Henry VIII
• Queen Anne
• President William Howard Taft
• Alfred Hitchcock
• 'Mama' Cass Elliot
• Marlon Brando
• Elvis Presley

This book looks at their health, childhood, experiences, and pressures to discover what caused their famous weight problems.

It also looks at the efforts they made to lose weight - they were very similar to the kinds of things we do today - and how their health was affected. Each chapter also looks at what went wrong for that person and what we can learn from their struggles.

The book also looks at modern weight-loss knowledge:

• Why going hungry doesn't work
• Why some people stay slim
• The most dangerous food combination for health and weight
• And much more
• A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR I'm not a weight-loss expert but I am a person who has struggled with their weight and found that crash diets don't work. I'm also passionately interested in history, and I think we should be able to learn something from it! So I researched some of the big historical and celebrity figures who struggled with their weight, to see if I could find out what caused their problems and if that knowledge could help us today. Many of the people in this book met tragic ends due to their weight and weight-loss efforts. If you don't get anything else out of this book, get that extreme dieting and fasting don't work in the long-term and can do untold damage to your organs. Small, gradual lifestyle and eating changes are what work.