After a life-threatening event, Belldon Colme-nearly a hundred pounds overweight-went on a quest for the answer to both weight loss and total body health.

What he discovered left him amazed, shocked, and angered.

In No One Ever Got Fat from Calories, Colme shares how he learned how his body truly works and, in the process, uncovered one of the biggest lies in business today-a lie that's making people both fat and sick: the calorie.

Chapters such as "The Beginnings of Common Sense," "The Secrets of Metabolism," and "A Tale of Two Fats" reveal an array of...