Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease (Hardcover) by Robert Lustig

from baystateRA

Good balance of nutrition science, humor, and serious message here! Referred to often in stunt memoir, Year of No Sugar by Eve O. Schaub.

from deldevries

Well written medical research based review of why sugar and fiber are the primary problems of our diet. Processed food = sugar fiber removed, hence the problem. The solution is to eat real food. The back end gets down to the corporate and political problems of the issue.

from Laura400

I'd give the author and subject matter a full five stars, but the book is a bit lacking in writing style and accessibility. In trying to show the dangers of our modern processed-food diet, which now amounts to a glut of added sugar, Lustig has taken the hard road. He has decided to explain bioche...

from zoomball

I have the background to be able to follow the science but biochemistry really makes my eyes glaze over, so after a few chapters of this I admit to skimming. And as politics has the same effect on me, a lot of his thoughts on solutions I needed to skim as well. That being said, however, there is ...

from zoomball

I have the background to be able to follow the science but biochemistry really makes my eyes glaze over, so after a few chapters of this I admit to skimming. And as politics has the same effect on me, a lot of his thoughts on solutions I needed to skim as well. That being said, however, there is ...