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Fat chance : beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease / Robert H. Lustig, M.D.

Summary:

"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two 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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Robert Lustig's ninety-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has been viewed nearly three million times. Now, in this highly anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that have led to personal misery and public crisis--the pandemic of obesity and chronic disease--over the last thirty years"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781594631009
Physical Description: pages cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Hudson Street Press, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Baker & Taylor, 2/2013.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I Greatest Story Ever Sold -- 1 A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion 3 -- 2 A Calorie Is a Calorie-or Is It? 9 -- 3 Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old 22 -- Part II To Eat or Not to Eat? That's Not the Question -- 4 Gluttony and Sloth-Behaviors Driven by Hormones 33 -- 5 Food Addiction-Fact or Fallacy 48 -- 6 Stress and "Comfort Food" 64 -- Part III "Chewing" the Fat -- 7 Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell 75 -- 8 Difference Between "Fat" and "Sick" 85 -- 9 Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge 93 -- Part IV "Real" Toxic Environment -- 10 Omnivore's Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb 105 -- 11 Fructose-The "Toxin" 117 -- 12 Fiber-Half the Antidote 130 -- 13 Exercise-The Other Half of the Antidote 139 -- 14 Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole? 150 -- 15 Environmental "Obesogens" 158 -- 16 "Empire" Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry 166 -- Part V Personal Solution -- 17 Altering Your Food Environment 183 -- 18 Altering Your Hormonal Environment 209 -- 19 Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn't Enough 218 -- Part VI Public Health Solution -- 20 "Nanny State": Personal versus Societal Responsibility 229 -- 21 What Hath Government Wrought? 239 -- 22 A Call for Global Sugar Reduction 255.