{"product_id":"fat-chance-isbn-9780142180433","title":"Fat Chance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe landmark \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller that reveals how the explosion of sugar in our diets has created an obesity epidemic, and what we can do to save ourselves.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Lustig is at the forefront of war against sugar — showing us that it's toxic, it's addictive, and it's everywhere because the food companies want it to be. His 90-minute YouTube video \"Sugar: The Bitter Truth\" has been viewed more than 7 million times. Now, in this landmark 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In the late 1970s, when the U.S. government declared that we needed to get the fat out of our diets, the food industry responded by pumping in more sugar to make food more palatable (and more salable), and by removing the fiber to make food last longer on the shelf. The result has been a perfect storm for our health, disastrously altering our biochemistry to make us think we're starving, drive our eating habits out of our control, and turn us into couch potatoes. If we cannot control how we eat, it's because of the catastrophic excess of sugar in our diet--the resulting hormonal imbalances have rewired our brains!\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents strategies we can each use to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress, as well as societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. With scientific rigor and even a little humor, \u003ci\u003eFat Chance\u003c\/i\u003e categorically proves that \"a calorie is not a calorie,\" and takes that knowledge to its logical conclusion--an overhaul of the global food system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e“No scientist has done more in the last fifty years to alert Americans to the potential dangers of sugar in the diet than Dr. Robert Lustig.” \u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eGary Taubes, \u003c\/b\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eGood Calories, Bad Calories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhy We Get Fat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“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. \u003ci\u003eFat Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is the best book I've read on the relationship between diet and health and the clearest explanation of epidemic obesity in our society.”\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAndrew Weil, M.D\u003c\/b\u003e., author of \u003ci\u003eSpontaneous Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYou Can’t Afford to Get Sick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eFat Chance \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.” \u003cbr\u003e --\u003cb\u003eMark Hyman, M.D.,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blood Sugar Solution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Fat Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary achievement. Obesity's causes, mechanisms, health consequences, and preventive approaches are all devilishly complicated, but Dr. Lustig's outstanding contribution clarifies the complexity via a writing style that's accessible, insightful, and often gently humorous. 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. Obesity has become the world's number one health problem. \u003ci\u003eFat Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is the book for all of us who must confront this epidemic.”\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eS. Boyd Eaton, M.D\u003c\/b\u003e., Departments of Radiology and Anthropology, Emory University, and father of the Paleo Diet movement\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Robert Lustig is neither ringing an alarm bell nor giving us a gentle, paternalistic nudge. His message is more authentic. He is a medical doctor issuing a prescription. In order to address a current cocktail of health threats, Americans must alter their diets and do so radically. Those alterations must begin with a dramatic reduction in the consumption of sugars.”\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAlec Baldwin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“The obesity pandemic is well documented. But what can be done about it? More importantly, when does a personal health issue rise to become a public health crisis? In \u003ci\u003eFat Chance\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. Robert Lustig examines the science of obesity to determine the role that our current diet (especially too much sugar and too little fiber) plays in weight gain and disease. Using that knowledge, he proposes changes in our personal, public, and governmental attitudes to combat this scourge. \u003ci\u003eFat Chance\u003c\/i\u003e is a 'savory' read with a 'sweet' finish.”\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eSanjay Gupta, M.D., \u003c\/b\u003eneurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent\u003cb\u003eRobert H. Lustig, M.D., MSL, \u003c\/b\u003eis professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and a member of the Institute for Health Policy Studies at University of California, San Francisco. He has authored 120 peer-reviewed articles and 70 reviews, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Fat Chance Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hacking of the American Mind, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Metabolical\u003c\/i\u003e. He has mentored 30 pediatric endocrine fellows and trained numerous other allied health professionals. He is the former chairman of the Obesity Task Force of the Pediatric Endocrine Society, a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society, and a member of the Pediatric Obesity Devices Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is also the president of the nonprofit Institute for Responsible Nutrition, dedicated to reversing childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. He consults for several childhood obesity advocacy groups and government agencies.\u003cb\u003eThe Mediterranean Diet\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePioppi, a small town in Italy, is the home of the Mediterranean diet. In Ancel Keys' Seven Countries study (Italy was one of the countries), this diet was associated with lower death rates from heart disease. The diet was popularized in America due to its population's low incidence of disease and long lifespan. Unfortunately, Pioppi and many surrounding areas that originally consumed a peasant fare can no longer afford to do so. Processed food is more readily available and cheaper. These areas, once renowned for their health, have soaring rates of obesity in part due to a current lack of whole grains, fresh fruits, and vegetables from their diets. These items are just too expensive, and they don't taste as good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere's what's in the real Mediterranean diet: high olive oil consumption (mono-unsaturated fat); legumes (beans, lentils, peas); fruits, vegetables, and unrefined grains (fiber); dairy products (saturated fat); eggs (high-quality protein); fish (omega-3s); and wine in moderation (resveratrol, flavonoids, and likely other factors). Americans misunderstand the Mediterranean diet, because they think it is all about pasta, which is Italian but not Mediterranean. Because what the Italians used to eat in Italy is not what the Italians eat in the United States. The pasta and pizza movement actually started in the United States within the poor Italian immigrant population, based on the cost of carbohydrates versus meat. That diet then migrated over to Italy. 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