| Description |
xv, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"Robert Lustig's ninety-minute YouTube video "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has been viewed nearly three million times. Now, in this book, he documents the science and the politics that have led to personal misery and public crisis--the pandemic of obesity and chronic disease--over the last thirty years"--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : time to think outside the box -- The greatest story ever sold. A fallacy of biblical proportion. A calories is a calorie--or is it? Personal responsibility versus the obese six-month-old -- To eat or not to eat? That's not the question. Gluttony and sloth--behaviors driven by hormones. Food addition--fact or fallacy. Stress and "comfort food" -- "Chewing" the fat. The birth, care, and feeding of a fat cell. The difference between "fat" and "sick." Metabolic syndrome : the new scourge -- The "real" toxic environment. The omnivore's curse : low fat versus low carb. Fructose--the "toxin." Fiber--half the antidote. Exercise--the other half of the antidoter. Micronutrients : home run or hyperbole? Environmental "obesogens." The "empire" strikes back : response of the food industry -- The personal solution. Altering your food environment. Altering your hormonal environment. Last restorts : when altering your environment isn't enough -- The public health solution. The "nanny state" : personal versus societal responsibility. What hath government wrought? A call for global sugar reduction -- Epilogue : not a top-down but a bottom-up movement. |
| Subject |
Obesity.
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Food habits.
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Food industry and trade.
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Nutrition policy.
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Sugars in human nutrition.
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Sugar -- Health aspects.
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Nutritionally induced diseases.
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| ISBN |
9781594631009 |
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159463100X |
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