Fat Chance: The Hidden Truth About Sugar, Obesity and Disease

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Sugar is toxic, addictive and everywhere. So what chance do you have of living sugar-free
We all know the obvious culprits when it comes to sugar, but now Dr Robert Lustig reveals how much is hidden in our diet. Our dependence on sugar-laden processed foods has manifested in shocking levels of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer and heart disease. Fat Chance exposes the political and business interests behind our modern diet, and shows why exercise and the latest food fads wont work for everyone who wants to get fitter. The real key to regulating our hunger is to understand why every calorie is different.

Cutting out sugar is not just about making us thin its about giving us more than a fat chance of a healthier, happier and smarter life!

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A top ten New York Times bestseller

Lustig has all the shocking facts at his finger tips, but he also has strategies to help us wean ourselves off the white stuff. The result, he promises, won't be just fitter bodies, but sharper minds too: the book to get your new year off to a virtuous start. Guardian, Books of the Year

This important book could finally push you to shed those extra pounds, if not save your life Evening Standard

A fascinating new book Daily Mail

Fascinating and topical. Daily Express

His lucid and well-informed analysis should help inform the debate on this ever-expanding problem. Sunday Times

Lustig explains the biochemistry of metabolism, and the vicious cycle of obesity, with patient clarity Guardian

Lustig offers way that we can help ourselves and improve our health but his chief aim is a new regulatory climate Telegraph

Crammed full of hard-hitting insights that may shock the reader into immediate dieter change (and it did me) Barbara J King, TLS

The best book Ive read on the relationship between diet and health. Dr Andrew Weil

Lustig has all the shocking facts at his finger tips, but he also has strategies to help us wean ourselves off the white stuff the book to get your new year off to a virtuous start The Guardian, Food Books of the Year

Author Bio

Dr Robert Lustig has spent the past sixteen years treating childhood obesity and studying the effects of sugar on the central nervous system and metabolism. He is the Director of the UCSF Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Program and also a member of the Obesity Task Force of the Endocrine Society.