FAT CHANCE: BEATING THE ODDS AGAIN SUGAR, PROCESSED FOODS, OBESITY, AND DISEASE

Book ID/图书代码： 06830112B59474

English Summary/英文概要： Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than two million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last 30 years. In the late 1970s when the government mandated we get the fat out of our food, the food industry responded by pouring more sugar in. The result has been a perfect storm, disastrously altering our biochemistry and driving our eating habits out of our control. To help us lose weight and recover our health, Lustig presents personal strategies to readjust the key hormones that regulate hunger, reward, and stress; and societal strategies to improve the health of the next generation. Compelling, controversial, and completely based in science, Fat Chance debunks the widely held notion to prove “a calorie is NOT a calorie”, and takes that science to its logical conclusion to improve health worldwide.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 肥胖是許多慢性病的問題來源，也是全球當前必須嚴肅面對的議題，尤其是兒童過重肥胖問題更是刻不容緩。美國兒童因政府政策將飲食脂肪用量降低，提高碳水化合物的攝取，反而吃進過多糖份，而糖份則造成人體代謝的負擔，加上許多食品中添加的果糖及人工糖更是一種「毒藥」，讓人上癮而不自知！ 作者Robert Lustig醫學博士身為兒童內分泌專家，長期以來相當關注兒童食品安全，他在YouTube網站上發表一段90分鐘關於糖的真相影片，已有全球超過3百萬人次點閱觀賞。而他在本書除了揭露人誤食糖的真相，更闡述全球政府在此問題上應有何對策。 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Awards/获奖情况：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. --Gary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat

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. Fat Chance is the best book I’ve read on the relationship between diet and health and the clearest explanation of epidemic obesity in our society. --Andrew Weil, M.D., author of Spontaneous Happiness and You Can t Afford to Get Sick

Fat Chance is 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 getsright 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. --Mark Hyman, M.D., author of The Blood Sugar Solution

Fat Chance 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. Fat Chance is the book for all of us who must confront this epidemic. --S. Boyd Eaton, M.D., Departments of Radiology and Anthropology, Emory University, and father of the Paleo Diet movement

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. --Alec Baldwin

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 Fat Chance, 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. Fat Chance is a ’savory’ read with a ’sweet’ finish. --Sanjay Gupta, M.D., neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent"

About the Author/作者介绍： Robert H. Lustig, M.D 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. His YouTube video lecture "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" has received over two million hits and his book Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease is being published in Autumn 2012.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：SOLD

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：
• UK - Fourth Estate/HarperCollins
• Germany/ MVG Verlag
• Japan/Diamond
• France/Editions Thierry Souccar
• Chinese/Taiwan – Streamer Publishing
• Korea – Korean Economic Daily
• Sweden – Pagina Forlags
• Slovenia – UMCO
• Turkey – Nail Kitabevi
• Norway – Lille Maane
• Poland - Galaktyka
• Czech Rep. - Albatros
• Slovakia – Albatros

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