Fat Chance The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease 9780007514137, 000751414X
Sugar is toxic, addictive and everywhere. So what chance do you have of living sugar-free? With busy lives and little t
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Table of contents :
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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
Notes
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
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
Notes
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
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- Dr. Robert
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