The Fat Chance Cookbook : More Than 100 Recipes Ready in Under 30 Minutes to Help You Lose the Sugar and the Weight

The companion cookbook to the New York Times bestseller Fat Chance Fat Chance became an instant New York Times bestseller. 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. Now, in The Fat Chance Cookbook, Lustig helps us put this information into action for ourselves. With more than 100 recipes as well as meal plans, nutritional analyses, shopping lists, and food swaps, he shows us easy ways to drastically reduce sugar and increase fiber to lose weight and regain health? both for ourselves and for our families. Lustig also shows us how to navigate the grocery store with handy lists for stocking the pantry as well as how to read a food label in order to find hidden sugars and evaluate fiber content. Accessible, affordable, and geared toward lasting results, The Fat Chance Cookbook will be a fun and easy roadmap to better health for the whole family.-- Source other than Library of Congress Table of Contents Introduction: Time to Think Outside the Box xi Part I The Greatest Story Ever Sold 1 A Fallacy of Biblical Proportion 3 2 A Calorie Is a Calorie-or Is It? 9 3 Personal Responsibility versus the Obese Six-Month-Old 22 Part II To Eat or Not to Eat? That's Not the Question 4 Gluttony and Sloth-Behaviors Driven by Hormones 33 5 Food Addiction-Fact or Fallacy 48 6 Stress and "Comfort Food" 64 Part III "Chewing" the Fat 7 The Birth, Care, and Feeding of a Fat Cell 75 8 The Difference Between "Fat" and "Sick" 85 9 Metabolic Syndrome: The New Scourge 93 Part IV The "Real" Toxic Environment 10 The Omnivore's Curse: Low Fat versus Low Carb 105 11 Fructose-The "Toxin" 117 12 Fiber-Half the Antidote 130 13 Exercise-The Other Half of the Antidote 139 14 Micronutrients: Home Run or Hyperbole? 150 15 Environmental "Obesogens" 158 16 The "Empire" Strikes Back: Response of the Food Industry 166 Part V The Personal Solution 17 Altering Your Food Environment 183 18 Altering Your Hormonal Environment 209 19 Last Resorts: When Altering Your Environment Isn't Enough 218 Part VI The Public Health Solution 20 The "Nanny State": Personal versus Societal Responsibility 229 21 What Hath Government Wrought? 239 22 A Call for Global Sugar Reduction 255 Epilogue: Not a Top-Down but a Bottom-Up Movement 272 Acknowledgments 277 Notes 281 Glossary 303 Index 307