Fat Chance The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease

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Sugar is toxic, addictive and everywhere. So what chance do you have of living sugar-free? With busy lives and little time left for cooking we find ourselves relying on a diet of processed food. But this is what’s responsible for our chronically expanding waistlines, soaring levels of diabetes and a catalogue of diseases. Dr Robert Lustig reveals the truth about our sugar-laden food: Why conventional low-fat weight loss advice won’t work: not every calorie is the same, and skipping lunch doesn’t mean it’s ok to eat dessert Why too much sugar can cause serious illness even if you are not overweight How the food industry is filling our diets with hidden sugars – and which foods you must cut out to avoid them How governments are complacent about, and even complicit in, exacerbating our food debacle He will radically change the way you see your food and give you more than a fat chance of a healthier, happier and smarter life! Download Directly from Usenet. Sign up now to get Two Weeks of Free CONTENTS Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction: Time to Think Outside the Box Part I. The Greatest Story Ever Sold 1. A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion 2. A Calorie Is a Calorie—or Is It? 3. Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old Part II. To Eat or Not to Eat? That’s Not the Question 4. Gluttony and Sloth—Behaviors Driven by Hormones 5. Food Addiction—Fact or Fallacy 6. Stress and “Comfort Food” Part III. “Chewing” the Fat 7. The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell 8. The Difference Between “Fat” and “Sick” 9. Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge Part IV. The “Real” Toxic Environment 10. The Omnivore’s Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb 11. Fructose—The “Toxin” 12. Fiber—Half the Antidote 13. Exercise—The Other Half of the Antidote 14. Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole? 15. Environmental “Obesogens” 16. The “Empire” Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry Part V. The Personal Solution 17. Altering Your Food Environment 18. Altering Your Hormonal Environment 19. Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn’t Enough Part VI. The Public Health Solution 20. The “Nanny State”: Personal versus Societal Responsibility 21. What Hath Government Wrought? 22. A Call for Global Sugar Reduction Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement Notes Glossary Index Acknowledgments About the Author About the Publisher