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Fat Chance
- Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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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 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.
What the critics say
"No scientist has done more in the last 50 years to alert Americans to the potential dangers of sugar in the diet than Dr. Robert Lustig.” (Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat)
“Our eating habits are killing us. In this timely and important book, Dr. Robert Lustig presents the scientific evidence for the toxicity of sugar and the disastrous effects of modern industrial food on the hormones that control hunger, satiety, and weight. He gives recommendations for a personal solution to the problem we face and also suggests a public policy solution. Fat Chance is the best book I've read on the relationship between diet and health and the clearest explanation of epidemic obesity in our society.”–Andrew Weil, MD, author of Spontaneous Happiness and You Can’t Afford to Get Sick)
“Fat Chance is THE manifesto for our time. It reveals the real reasons we why we are a fat nation and how to cure the obesity epidemic. It gets right to the root of the problem, which is not gluttony and sloth, as the food industry, government and your neighbor would have you believe. It is because we are drowning in a sea of sugar which poisons our metabolism, shrinks our brains, and threatens our national security and global competitiveness. Every American, politician, teacher, and business leader must read this book. Our nation's future depends on it.” (Mark Hyman, MD, author of The Blood Sugar Solution)
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- Vesna
- 2019-02-10
A Must Read
There is so much in this book. Robert Lustig shows how once again corporations put profits before the health and well being of people. Everyone needs to read this book.
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- Jeremiah Jason Lyne
- 2021-01-26
Gives you a fighting chance
Helps me understand why I’ve been fighting my weight for 30years. It’s also helping me get my weight and life back under control.
Thank you Dr. Lustig for writing this book!
I’m giving it to all my friends and family.
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- Michelle M.
- 2023-07-07
Brilliant
This information is what everyone needs to combat the poisonous grip big food has on us. Bravo and thankyou Dr Lustig. I have also read Metabilical, his next book, and its just as brilliant.
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