Sugar is toxic, addictive and everywhere. So what chance do you have of living sugar-free?
With busy lives and little time left for cooking we find ourselves relying on a diet of processed food. But this is what’s responsible for our chronically expanding waistlines, soaring levels of diabetes and a catalogue of diseases.
Dr Robert Lustig reveals the truth about our sugar-laden food:
Why conventional low-fat weight loss advice won’t work: not every calorie is the same, and skipping lunch doesn’t mean it’s ok to eat dessert
Why too much sugar can cause serious illness even if you are not overweight
How the food industry is filling our diets with hidden sugars – and which foods you must cut out to avoid them
How governments are complacent about, and even complicit in, exacerbating our food debacle
He will radically change the way you see your food and give you more than a fat chance of a healthier, happier and smarter life!
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Author(s): Lustig, Dr. Robert
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Year: 2014
Language: English
Commentary: living sugar-free for a healthier, happier and smarter life!
Pages: 336
Tags: living sugar-free for a healthier, happier and smarter life!
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
