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The bitter truth, has been viewed more than three million times. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read fat chance. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease 20. The overriding thesis of this book is, your fat is not your fate provided you dont surrender. New york times bestseller robert lustig s 90minute youtube video sugar. Lustig has gained some notoriety in recent years on both sides of the atlantic for his strong antisugar campaigning. The fat chance cookbook by robert lustig ultimate body press. Fat chance by dr robert lustig presenting the danger behind our obsession with sugar dr lustig discusses the impact modern industrial food has on our health. Robert lustig talks about all of these factors and what he says are some common misconceptions about fat and dieting in his new book fat chance. Our fat chance online nutrient database will help you select better foods based on lustigs recommendations. Fat chance, and indeed lustig himself, raises awareness of sugar intake, its effect on population health and highlights the extent of the risks if the food environment is not changed. New york times bestseller robert lustigs 90minute youtube video sugar.
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Lustig details how to drastically reduce sugar in our diets to lose weight and regain health. The bitter truth has been viewed more than 7 million times. Get the fat chance cookbook for more than 100 recipes ready in under 30 minutes. 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. We decided to produce the whole transcript of the video just as we did with his former one. Theres a fat chance that you will stay or become lean without understanding the principles in fat chance by robert lustig, m.
Lustig has been on a mission educating the public on the harmful effects of sugar. 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. Robert lustig is a professor of pediatrics in the division of endocri. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry.
On calories alone, this amount accounts for 112 lbsyr of body fat. Its a book about nutrition, biology and public health and its science is spoton. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease, endocrinologist and obesity doc robert lustig. Robert lustig s message that a calorie is not a calorie revolutionized our understanding of weight loss and nutrition. He provides compelling evidence that our overall food consumption is determined by a complex suite of hormones that will drive us in ways that leave very little room for personal decision. But in order to avoid the hidden sugars that threaten our health and waistlines, dr. In the fat chance cookbook, robert provides practical examples for applying healthy eating principles with recipes by cindy gershen. I have been reading about the effects of sugar for some time and dr lustig s book fat chance is a real eye opener and in my opinion, one of the best books regarding the issues surrounding sugar consumption.
His book illuminates the causes of obesity and challenges the dogma, a calorie is a calorie. Lustig came to public attention in 2009 when one of his medical lectures, sugar. Robert lustig as he presents his new york times bestseller, fat chance. Dec 27, 2012 new york times bestsellerrobert lustigs 90minute youtube video sugar. He is professor of pediatrics in the division of endocrinology at the university of california, san francisco ucsf, where he specializes in neuroendocrinology and childhood obesity. Robert lustig describes how increased consumption of sugar has paralleled a steep rise in obesity and metabolic disease diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia over. In this 2012 fulllength book followup to his 2009 youtube sensation, sugar. Dec 31, 20 fat chance is the book for all of us who must confront this epidemic. Fat chance is a persuasively indignant publicpolicy manifesto, but its also a selfhelp book. Read it and you will come to understand why he says a calorie is not a calorie and not all calories are equal. Fascinating and topical, fat chance, the hidden truth about sugar, obesity and disease by dr robert lustig examines how our consumption is responsible for.
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