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Fat Chance : Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert H. Lustig (2012, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10159463100X
ISBN-139781594631009
eBay Product ID (ePID)8038728146
Product Key Features
Book TitleFat Chance : Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicNutrition, Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition, Industries / Food Industry, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Bariatrics, Diet & Nutrition / Weight Loss
Publication Year2012
GenreHealth & Fitness, Social Science, Business & Economics, Medical
AuthorRobert H. Lustig
FormatHardcover
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2012-036895
Reviews Fat Chance is an extraordinary achievement. Obesity's causes, mechanisms, health consequences, and preventive approaches are all devilishly complicated, but Dr. Lustig's outstanding contribution clarifies the complexity via a writing style that's accessible, insightful, and often gently humorous. Robert Lustig is a clinician, a scientist, and an advocate -a combination that that makes him uniquely qualified to bring the condition's many facets into sharp focus. Obesity has become the word's number one health problem. Fat Chance is the book for all of us who must confront this epidemic., "No scientist has done more in the last fifty years to alert Americans to the potential dangers of sugar in the diet than Dr. Robert Lustig." Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat "Our eating habits are killing us. In this timely and important book, Dr. Robert Lustig presents the scientific evidence for the toxicity of sugar and the disastrous effects of modern industrial food on the hormones that control hunger, satiety, and weight. He gives recommendations for a personal solution to the problem we face and also suggests a public policy solution. Fat Chance is the best book I've read on the relationship between diet and health and the clearest explanation of epidemic obesity in our society." Andrew Weil, M.D ., author of Spontaneous Happiness and You Can't Afford to Get Sick " Fat Chance is THE manifesto for our time. It reveals the real reasons we why we are a fat nation and how to cure the obesity epidemic. It gets right to the root of the problem, which is not gluttony and sloth, as the food industry, government and your neighbor would have you believe. 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. Every American, politician, teacher, and business leader must read this book. Our nation's future depends on it." Mark Hyman, M.D., author of The Blood Sugar Solution "Fat Chance is an extraordinary achievement. Obesity's causes, mechanisms, health consequences, and preventive approaches are all devilishly complicated, but Dr. Lustig's outstanding contribution clarifies the complexity via a writing style that's accessible, insightful, and often gently humorous. Robert Lustig is a clinician, a scientist, and an advocate - a combination that that makes him uniquely qualified to bring the condition's many facets into sharp focus. Obesity has become the world's number one health problem. Fat Chance is the book for all of us who must confront this epidemic." S. 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. His message is more authentic. He is a medical doctor issuing a prescription. In order to address a current cocktail of health threats, Americans must alter their diets and do so radically. Those alterations must begin with a dramatic reduction in the consumption of sugars." Alec Baldwin "The obesity pandemic is well documented. But what can be done about it? More importantly, when does a personal health issue rise to become a public health crisis? In Fat Chance , Dr. 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. Using that knowledge, he proposes changes in our personal, public, and governmental attitudes to combat this scourge. Fat Chance is a 'savory' read with a 'sweet' finish." Sanjay Gupta, M.D., neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent, "Our eating habits are killing us. In this timely and important book, Dr. Robert Lustig presents the scientific evidence for the toxicity of sugar and the disastrous effects of modern industrial food on the hormones that control hunger, satiety, and weight. He gives recommendations for a personal solution to the problem we face and also suggests a public policy solution. Fat Chance is the best book I've read on the relationship between diet and health and the clearest explanation of epidemic obesity in our society." --Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Happiness
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal362.1963/98
SynopsisNew 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.
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- Jan 16, 2018
Excellent knowledge.
This book scientifically goes through the myths of food and primarily of sugar. Getting rid of processed and added sugar....only eating naturally ocurring sugars in whole foods....I lost 10 lbs in 2 weeks. Very true and it works.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Nov 09, 2021
Why and how we gain weight. What we can do not to.
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