Fat chance : beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease

Fat chance Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease

Robert H. Lustig

Book - 2013

"Robert Lustig's 90-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", has been viewed more than two 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 n...ext 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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Subjects
Obesity.
Food habits.
Food industry and trade.
Published
New York, New York : Hudson Street Press [2013]
Language
English
Main Author
Robert H. Lustig (-)
Physical Description
xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781594631009
  • 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
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Index
Review by Library Journal Review

An endocrinologist argues that exercise won't help you shed pounds and fasting only worsens weight gain. By readjusting the hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress, permanent weight loss can be achieved. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

(c) Copyright Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

The Mediterranean Diet Pioppi, a small town in Italy, is the home of the Mediterranean diet. In Ancel Keys' Seven Countries study (Italy was one of the countries), this diet was associated with lower death rates from heart disease. The diet was popularized in America due to its population's low incidence of disease and long lifespan. Unfortunately, Pioppi and many surrounding areas that originally consumed a peasant fare can no longer afford to do so. Processed food is more readily available and cheaper. These areas, once renowned for their health, have soaring rates of obesity in part due to a current lack of whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables from their diets. These items are just too expensive, and they don't taste as good. Here's what's in the real Mediterranean diet: high olive oil consumption (mono-unsaturated fat); legumes (beans, lentils, peas); fruits, vegetables, and unrefined grains (fiber); dairy products (saturated fat); eggs (high-quality protein); fish (omega-3s); and wine in moderation (resveratrol, flavonoids, and likely other factors). Americans misunderstand the Mediterranean diet, because they think it is all about pasta, which is Italian but not Mediterranean. Because what the Italians used to eat in Italy is not what the Italians eat in the United States. The pasta and pizza movement actually started in the United States within the poor Italian immigrant population, based on the cost of carbohydrates versus meat. That diet then migrated over to Italy. And now the Italians have our problem. Excerpted from Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease by Robert H. Lustig All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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