Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and DiseaseNew York Times Bestseller Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. Compelling, controversial, and completely based in science, Fat Chance debunks the widely held notion to prove “a calorie is NOT a calorie”, and takes that science to its logical conclusion to improve health worldwide. |
Contents
Personal Responsibility versus the Obese SixMonthOld | |
To Eat or Not to Eat? Thats Not | |
Food AddictionFact or Fallacy | |
Stress and Comfort Food | |
The Birth Care and Feeding of a Fat Cell | |
Home Run or Hyperbole? | |
Environmental Obesogens | |
Response of the Food Industry | |
The Personal Solution | |
Altering Your Food Environment | |
Altering Your Hormonal Environment | |
When Altering Your Environment Isnt Enough | |
The Public Health Solution | |
The Difference Between Fat and Sick | |
The New Scourge | |
The Real Toxic Environment | |
Low Fat versus Low Carb | |
FructoseThe Toxin | |
FiberHalf the Antidote | |
ExerciseThe Other Half of the Antidote | |
Personal versus Societal Responsibility | |
What Hath Government Wrought? | |
A Call for Global Sugar Reduction | |
Not a TopDown but a BottomUp Movement | |
Acknowledgments | |
Glossary | |
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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease Robert H. Lustig No preview available - 2013 |
Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease Robert H. Lustig No preview available - 2012 |
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