Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (643 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0095ZMPTU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 453 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Life changing nutritional education Amazon customer I had hit a wall in terms of eating right and dieting. Then my sister shared with me how much she was able to lower her LDL in her cholesterol by reducing her sugar intake. I started to Google articles on sugar and came across Dr Lustig's You Tube video. It was 90 minutes but it was, in a word, captivating. I was. A book that might change how you eat! I devoured this book.Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist at UCSF whose "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" lecture video got lots of hits on YouTube, has been watching the rise of obesity and its attendant ills in his practice over the last umpteen years. While not every obese person is unhealthy (and many people with acce. A Must Read. Sugar poisoning is real It's difficult to write from a phone so please excuse any errors. I learned of this book while listening to an interview with the author on NPR. I immediately bought it and saw it well written and intriguing, but for some reason I stopped reading at about page 30 or do.That was stupid of me because I started abus
Obesity has become the world's number one health problem. Robert Lustig is a clinician, a scientist, and an advocate — a combination that that makes him uniquely qualified to bring the condition's many facets into sharp focus. But what can be done about it? More importantly, when does a personal health issue rise to become a public health crisis? In Fat Chance, Dr. In this timely and important book, Dr. Robert Lustig.” --Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat “Our eating habits are killing us. “No scientist has done more in the last fifty years to alert Americans to the potential dangers of sugar in the diet than Dr. Lustig's outstanding contribution clarifies the complexity via a writing style that's accessible, insightful, and often gently humorous. It reveals t
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. New York Times BestsellerRobert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than three million times. Compelling, controversial, and completely based in science, Fat Chance debunks the
. He consults for several childhood obesity advocacy groups and government agencies. Food and Drug Administration. He has mentored 30 pediatric endocrine fellows and trained numerous other allied health professionals. Lustig, M.D., MSL, is professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. Robert H. He has authored 120 peer-reviewed ar