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Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease audible audiobook unabridged robert h. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease by robert h. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease audible audiobook unabridged. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease, endocrinologist and obesity doc robert lustig deconstructs the mythology of fat. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease audible audio edition. This is not the actual audiobook fat chance by robert lustig. Dec 27, 2012 robert lustig is a clinician, a scientist, and an advocate a combination that that makes him uniquely qualified to bring the conditions many facets into sharp focus. It was paced well, and captured the humorous portions of the book well.
Jan 11, 20 the fallacies of fat in his new book fat chance. On calories alone, this amount accounts for 112 lbsyr of body fat. The bitter truth has been viewed nearly three million times. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease 20. The hacking of the american mind audiobook by robert h. Review in the follow up talk to his viral video lecture sugar. His book illuminates the causes of obesity and challenges the dogma, a calorie is a calorie. Dr lustig covers all the bases about the evils of sugar in a well written. Dopamine is the reward neurotransmitter that tells our brains we want more. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease audiobook by robert h. While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for fat chance, robert lustig made an alarming discovery our pursuit of happiness is being subverted by a culture of addiction and depression from which we may never recover. Lustig is skilled at presenting sciencebased research in a clear and impassioned manner in order to strongly convey his message to eat less sugar and to advocate getting high fructose corn syrup out of the western diet in which it has been dominating in the last 40 years or so.
Robert lustig s message that the increased sugar in our diets has led to the pandemic of chronic disease over the last thirty years captured our national attention. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. Jan 16, 2014 fat chance by robert lustig, 9780007514144, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The bitter truth now with over 7 million views, superstar endocrinologist robert lustig dives deeper into the physiological effects of sugar and high fructose corn syrup on the human body. Read it and you will come to understand why he says a calorie is not a calorie and not all calories are equal. The bitter truth, has been viewed more than two million times. Unfortunately, some of the recipes do contain sugar or honey which is about 55% fructose by the way.
Dr robert lustig is an american paediatric endocrinologist at the university of california, san francisco, where he is a professor of clinical paediatrics. Robert lustig is professor of pediatric endocrinology at the university of california, san francisco. Beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease audio published december 27th 2012 by penguin audio audio. Our fat chance online nutrient database will help you select better foods based on lustigs recommendations. Countering the argument that it is lack of willpower in eating less or working out enough, dr. While researching the toxic and addictive properties of sugar for his new york times best seller fat chance, robert lustig made an alarming discovery.
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