. >> sunday night on "after words", biochemist sylvia tara looks at the history and science behind body fat. she is interviewed by gina colada, medical examiner for the new york times. >> there is a set point, your brain sets how much you should weigh. what happens to that as we age. >> it's almost a force of nature that we accumulate more fat, at least a great many of us. we lose a lot of fat busting hormones that we had. they decline and it had helped us metabolize and grow. women and men have less of the hormone as we age. you can't really eat what you did when you were 22. that big plate of food will make you fat as you get older. it's not just the level of fat, it's the distribution of fat as well. >> sunday at 9:00 p.m. on "after words". >> the elite framers, people like addison, thomas jefferson, edison were looking at the direction of a government that would be more constrained, more independent of popular opinion and could actually shut down these populous forces in the state. madison wanted to give the federal government an absolute veto by any law passed by estate. that turne

aboard the british ship the hms hermione in 1797 and on book tvs afterwards programat 9 pm eastern, sylvia tara discusses the history and science behind body fat , 10, don't we discusses his book game of poor which is why the clinton campgn lt the 2016 presidential election. the winning strategy of the trump campaign and president from plan to move america forward.and to wrap up our sunday primetime lineup at 11:15, journalist and civil rights attorney ali a malik talks about the lives installed struggles of a collection of muslims, christians, jews, armenians and kurds living in her grandmother's apartment building in syria. that all happens tonight on c-span2's book tv. >> one of the things that would have i would have put more of in the book is a much more explicit argument about just how bad things can get if we don't have that international order which i believe absolutely requires american exceptionalism and i think could get very bad. so we could say these are all regional conflicts or we can pull back and it doesn't have a bearing on the other, i don't think, i really don't think that's

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charles campici will describe his work investigating corruption in the police force, and this weekend sylvia tara discusses how our bodies react to fat. >> it's actually an endocrine organ meaning it actually releases hormones that our body depends on. so, amazingly, our brain size is linked the fat. there are people who have a defective fat, a genetic defect in their fat, and there are parts of their brain that are smaller. our bone strength is linked to at the. our reproductive systems are linked to fat. if women get too below the level, they can't men institute regularly -- menstruate regularly. >> "after words" airs on booktv every saturday at 10 p.m. and sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. you can watch all previous "after words" program ares on our web site, booktv.org. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. booktv, television for serious readers. >> next on "the communicators," a conversation with the acting chair of the federal trade commission. then ahead of today's confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch, we're going to

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. >> biochemist sylvia tara discusses her book the secret life of fat which looks at the history and science behind body fat. through her research, she argues there are some aspects of fat that are necessary for the body including its ability to strengthen our immune system, enable our reproductive system and help with brain size. she is interviewed by gina colada, medical examiner for the new york times. >> high sylvia, i really liked reading your book. it was fun and fascinating because i think everybody has questions about why do some people get fat and others not get fat. what don't people understand about this. it seems like it's been a problem for so long. why is it still a problem? one of the things i like about your book is that you have a lot of personal stories. yourself, scientist, people who are struggling with their weight and i was drawn to the book from page one. i think everybody can relate to it. i thought people might like to hear what your book sounds like so i wondered if you could start by reading page one and stop at the end of that anecdote in page two. it was

eastern, sylvia tara discusses the history and science behind body fat. doug weed discusses this book "game of thorns" which looks at why the clinton campaign lost the 2016 presidenti presidential, the winning strategy of the trump campaign. to wrap up, urnalist and civil rights attorney malik talks about the lives of struggle of a number of people who were living in her grandmother's apartment building in damascus, syria. that happens tonight. >> doctors interrupt patients very quickly. 8-10 seconds. we just can't help ourselves. so i wondered how long would a patient speak if you didn't say a thing. i polled my colleagues and found a study, a swish study where they did that. doctor said what can i help you and patients spoke and doctors didn't say a word. the average monologue? 92 seconds. i thought i am going to try this in my clinic. i did it. turned on my stop watch and didn't say a word. for the first patient, 30 seconds. pretty healthy. next patient back pain, a minute and minute and half. then came the kicker. and a teacher in her native was scatl

. >>> sunday night offer "after words" biochemist sylvia tara looks at the history and science behind body fat. she is interviewed by the medical reporter for the "new york times." >> you told us there is a point where your brain says what your weight is. is it changing as you get older? >> as we age it's almost a force of nature that we seem to accumulate more fat. we lose a lot of fast-busting hormones that we've had. things like growth hormone that helps us rebuild tissue and grow and our fat metabolizing declines with age. testosterone levels. we have less of it as we age. you can't really eat what you did when you were 22. the big plate of food will make you fat as you get older. it's not just the level of fat. it's the distribution of it that's affected as well. >> sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on "after words." >>> during this week's prime minister's question time in the british house of commons, prime minister theresa may took several questions on brexit preparations. there was also discussion on scotland's intention to hold another independence referendum vote. this is 35

and syl sylvia tara talks about how our body deals with fat. >> amazingly our brain size is linked to fat. there are people who have a genetic defect with fat and they have smaller brains. our reproductive levels are linked to fat. even our immune system. it is amazing how many systems in our body are linked to healthy fat. booktv airs every saturday at 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> about 20 years ago i was doing research on my first book about african-american women in the north. i came across an advertisement for a runaway, an enslaved person who had run from the president's house in philadelphia may 1796. and i was, sort of caught up looking through microfilm at old newspapers but this made me pause and i said wait, who is this person who ran away? she was named oni judge who the advertisement and i thought wait a minute. i don't know this person. that was troubling to me because this is my era of expertise. i am supposed to know all this stuff and i had no idea who she was. there was something very compelling about this advertisement. it never escaped me. i said i

and on afterwords at 9 pm eastern, sylvia tara discusses the history and science behind body fat. at 10, don't we discusses his book game of bourns which looks at why the clinton campaign lost the 2016 presidential election. the winning strategy of the trump campaign and president trumps plan to move america forward and to wrap up our sunday primetime lineup at 11:15, journalist and civil rights attorney ali a malik talks about the lives and struggles of a selection of people, muslims, christians, jews and kurds were living in her grandmother's apartment building . >> battle happens tonight on c-span2's book tv. >>. >> this is henrietta left it looking at, i want to get this magnificent image. was looking at images taken from south america. because the whole sky had to be covered, there was a observatory building in peru, just photographing the stars of the southern hemisphere and she was looking at images of the transatlantic clouds and she discovered 12,000 variable stars and made a fundamental discovery about thpattern of variation that the stars that took the longest time to g