New York Times Bestseller
Robert Lustig’s 90-minute YouTube video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, has been viewed more than six million times. Now, in this much anticipated book, he documents the science and the politics that have 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,
Product details
Publisher : Avery; Illustrated edition (Dec 31 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0142180432
ISBN-13 : 978-0142180433
Item weight : 245 g
Dimensions : 13.56 x 1.83 x 20.32 cm
Best Sellers Rank: #22,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
#4 in Agricultural Economics (Books)
#7 in Restaurant & Food Industry
#24 in Health Care Delivery Books
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