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Most people know what they are supposed to do. Eat less. Move more. Try another diet. Yet despite countless books, diets and weight-loss programmes, obesity, insulin resistance and metabolic disease continue to rise. Why? Because surprisingly few people are ever taught how the body actually works. In Why We Get Fat, author and healthcare professional Martin Hesketh uses a simple but powerful factory analogy to explain the complex systems that govern metabolism, energy storage, appetite, insulin resistance and long-term health.

In Why We Get Sick, Martin Hesketh explores the remarkable adaptations taking place inside the human body long before illness is diagnosed. Using the same accessible factory analogy introduced in Why We Get Fat, he reveals how cells respond to changing demands, how energy production becomes disrupted, why inflammation develops, and how the body's attempts to survive can gradually become the very processes we recognise as disease.

Hunter Shaw arrives in the mountain town of Prominence by accident. A broken car. A delayed repair. A few unexpected days beneath the shadow of the Black Hills. At first, the town feels ordinary enough — quiet streets, fading storefronts, locals who seem to know more than they say. Then he meets Clare.

The year is 2020, the date, February 28, and the new virus that was spreading across the world had hit our shores. By March 1, the virus had reached all parts of the country. On the evening of Friday, March 20, Boris requested the closure of pubs, restaurants, entertainment venues etc., and so, what we all came to know as - lockdown, had begun.