Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease

by Robert Lustig

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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.
  • ISBN10 159463100X
  • ISBN13 9781594631009
  • Publish Date 27 December 2012 (first published 1 December 2012)
  • Publish Status Remaindered
  • Out of Print 7 July 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Imprint Hudson Street Press (an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc)
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English