Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0095ZMPTU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 265 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. New York Times BestsellerRobert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. 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. 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 responde
Amazon customer said Life changing nutritional education. I had hit a wall in terms of eating right and dieting. Then my sister shared with me how much she was able to lower her LDL in her cholesterol by reducing her sugar intake. I started to Google articles on sugar and came across Dr Lustig's You Tube video. It was 90 minutes but it was, in a word, captivating. I was then fortunate to find out that he was coming out with a book at the end of . A book that might change how you eat! I devoured this book.Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF whose "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" lecture video got lots of hits on YouTube, has been watching the rise of obesity and its attendant ills in his practice over the last umpteen years. While not every obese person is unhealthy (and many people with acceptable BMIs still suffer from metabolic syndrome), obesity frequently brings . "A Must Read. Sugar poisoning is real" according to RoninWriter. It's difficult to write from a phone so please excuse any errors. I learned of this book while listening to an interview with the author on NPR. I immediately bought it and saw it well written and intriguing, but for some reason I stopped reading at about page A Must Read. Sugar poisoning is real It's difficult to write from a phone so please excuse any errors. I learned of this book while listening to an interview with the author on NPR. I immediately bought it and saw it well written and intriguing, but for some reason I stopped reading at about page 30 or do.That was stupid of me because I started abusing my body with excess sugar, especially juices to avoid sodas. I was armed . 0 or do.That was stupid of me because I started abusing my body with excess sugar, especially juices to avoid sodas. I was armed
Food and Drug Administration. Robert H. He has mentored 30 pediatric endocrine fellows and trained numerous other allied health professionals. He is the former chairman of the Obesity Task Force of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society, and a member of
Boyd Eaton, M.D., Departments of Radiology and Anthropology, Emory University, and father of the Paleo Diet movement “Robert Lustig is neither ringing an alarm bell nor giving us a gentle, paternalistic nudge. It reveals the real reasons we why we are a fat nation and how to cure the obesity epidemic. Robert Lustig examines the science of obesity to determine the role that our current diet (especially too much sugar and too little fiber) plays in weight gain and disease. In this timely and important book, Dr. It is because we are drowning in a sea of sugar which poisons our metabolism, shrinks our brains, and threatens our national security and global competitiveness. “No scientist has done more in the last fifty years to alert Americans to the potential dangers of sugar in the diet than Dr. He give