Metabolic Pathways Regulating Weight Loss (Paperback)

Unlock the Science Behind Sustainable Weight Loss

If you’re tired of fad diets, fitness myths, and confusing nutrition advice, Metabolic Pathways Regulating Weight Loss: Healthy Nutrition — How the Body Stores and Burns Fat is your trusted, science-based guide to lasting transformation. Written by Christopher D. Boulton, a nutritionist and former environmental scientist with over 40 years of analytical expertise, this comprehensive book demystifies how the human body stores and burns fat — using real science, not trends.

Explore the metabolic pathways that govern fat storage, energy usage, and weight regulation. Learn the roles of macronutrients, hormones, sleep, time-restricted eating (TRE), and exercise in optimizing fat loss. With a step-by-step 20-point plan, practical food guidelines, and detailed discussions on biochemistry and energy metabolism, this book empowers readers to achieve weight loss through sustainable lifestyle changes — not willpower alone.
Whether you're seeking to lose weight, understand your body, or support a plant-based, health-forward diet, this guide delivers nutritional clarity in a world clouded by misinformation.

This first edition uniquely combines nutritional science, metabolic processes and cellular physiology, explaining the science behind weight gain and loss and how the body’s metabolism is regulated to store energy or burn glucose and fat efficiently. It cuts through the myths and misleading hype continually pedalled on social media, advocating extreme diets and demonising healthy carbohydrates. Instead, a wholesome, nutritional, natural approach is recommended, providing the step by step guide on how best to achieve your weight loss goals in a healthy, sustainable and enjoyable way. This book is packed with nutritional information, data and fascinating facts about the elaborate metabolic and cellular processes utilised by the human body to conserve precious glucose and structural protein, whilst storing and generating sufficient energy. It is a must read for people wishing to achieve weight loss and a healthy lifestyle, a great reference for all nutritionists, dieticians and fitness coaches and a valuable resource for health care professionals, doctors and medical students and anyone wanting to learn more about nutrient metabolism.

Key features:

• Comprehensive 2-part structure covering weight loss and nutritional metabolism
• Debunking of popular diet myths (keto, paleo, high-protein, low-carb)
• Emphasis on sustainable, plant-based, whole food nutrition
• Evidence-backed insights from leading scientific research and real-world studies
• The role of Gluconeogenesis, Cellular Biochemistry and Bioenergetics and Energy Balance
• Comparative Oxidation energy yield and cost of Glucose and Fatty acids
• Tools and templates for tracking diet changes and weight loss goals

Chris received his Honours Degree in Biology from London University and during a distinguished career, achieved status as a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Environmentalist and Chartered Water and Environmental Manager, with over 40 years' experience in business, environmental management, water supply and demand management and is now happily retired living in Staffordshire England. He has a Diploma in Advanced Nutrition Level 5, certified by the UK Association for Nutrition (AfN) and recognised by the UK National Health Service (NHS), the UK General Medical Council (GMC) and the UK Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).Chris also holds a Diploma in Environmental Management and Pollution Control and was appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management. He has given lectures in Europe and the United States and has an extensive knowledge of and passion for nutritional biochemistry, human metabolism, endocrinology and the science of nutrition and healthy eating and constantly maintains an avid interest in scientific papers, research and emerging evidence in this field. He is now actively engaged as founder of Healthy Nutrition Advice, helping and advising others who strive for improved diet, weight goals and overall health. Chris has exceptional communication and writing skills, delivering training and technical workshops to engineers, technicians and all levels of management spanning 4 decades. A significant record of professional achievement, encompassing managing directorship, running his own successful business and board level reporting with a solid background in the environmental management, Water Industry and Government sectors. Chris spent 15 years in UK Defence as Water Resources and Demand Manager for the Ministry of Defence, closely working with the legislative Regulators, the Environment Agency, Defra, DWI and Ofwat. A sustained and proven delivery of substantial savings and business improvement and efficiency gains for blue chip companies across industrial, commercial and municipal sectors, including petrochemical, steel, rail, textiles, paper, and port authorities. An experienced data analyst, with sales and business development skills and a natural flair for team training. Chris has been a keen follower and advocate of Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition for many years and his specialist subjects include; Dietary Macronutrient and Micronutrients, Substrate Energy Metabolism, Sustainable Healthy Weight Loss, Regulation of Metabolic Pathways, Chloroplast and Mitochondria Biochemistry and Animal and Plant Physiology and morphology."I am passionate about improving future education in Nutritional Science. I want to help people understand the benefits of healthier nutrition and how changing the way we eat can finally start to reverse the devastating environmental impact humans have caused to other species and the forests, land, sea and fresh water resources, due to our demand for food, especially meat and the supply systems feeding this demand across the globe over the past 100 years. I have a continuous driving enthusiasm and insatiable thirst for emerging and evolving scientific knowledge, as the frontiers of science are pushed further and further for the benefit of our fragile Earth"