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Fat Chance: The bitter truth about sugar

4.16 ( 5,670 Ratings by Goodreads)
Fat Chance: The bitter truth about sugar

Fat Chance: The bitter truth about sugar

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Sugar is addictive, toxic and everywhere. Find out how your sweet tooth might be nibbling you to death in this straight-talking expose. 'Fat Chance', documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of metabolic syndrome - which results in conditions like obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Dr Robert Lustig exposes how changes in the food industry and in our wider environment have affected our collective metabolisms and our waistlines, and he shows how industry and political forces, motivated by greed, don't want things to change. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger and reward and suggests societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. Discover how every calorie is different and that cutting out sugar is not just about making us thin - it's about making us healthier, happier and smarter.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780007514120
ISBN10 0007514123
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 459 g
Product Dimensions 148 x 30 x 230 mm
Publisher / Reseller Fourth Estate
Format paperback
Edition 978-0007514120
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A top ten New York Times bestseller 'This important book could finally push you to shed those extra pounds, if not save your life' Evening Standard 'A fascinating new book' Daily Mail 'Fascinating and topical.' Daily Express 'His lucid and well-informed analysis should help inform the debate on this ever-expanding problem.' Sunday Times 'Lustig explains the biochemistry of metabolism, and the vicious cycle of obesity, with patient clarity' Guardian 'Lustig offers way that we can help ourselves and improve our health ... but his chief aim is a new regulatory climate' Telegraph 'Crammed full of hard-hitting insights that may shock the reader into immediate dieter change (and it did me)' Barbara J King, TLS 'The best book I've read on the relationship between diet and health.' Dr Andrew Weil 'Lustig has all the shocking facts at his finger tips, but he also has strategies to help us wean ourselves off the white stuff ... the book to get your new year off to a virtuous start' The Guardian, 'Food Books of the Year'

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Dr Robert Lustig has spent the past sixteen years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society.

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