Fat Chance - Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease (Hardcover, New)


"New 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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"New 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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Imprint

Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)

Country of origin

United States

Release date

December 2012

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First published

December 2012

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Dimensions

235 x 163 x 29mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards

Pages

320

Edition

New

ISBN-13

978-1-59463-100-9

Barcode

9781594631009

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LSN

1-59463-100-X



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