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Robert lustig has done a great service to all the people in the world suffering from what some doctors had earlier labeled as western diseases or diseases of civilization. Fat chance beating the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease by robert lustig, md in this book, lustig documents the causes of the obesity and chronic disease pandemic over the last thirty years. Fat chance book johnson county library bibliocommons. New york times bestseller robert lustigs 90minute youtube video sugar. Lustig explains why the dogma of all calories are equal is false. Robert lustig, sitting in his cluttered office in a quiet hall of ucsfs main campus, is sounding glum.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Robert lustig as he presents his new york times bestseller, fat chance. In this 2012 fulllength book followup to his 2009 youtube sensation, sugar. Robert lustig describes how increased consumption of sugar has paralleled a steep rise in obesity and metabolic disease diabetes, heart disease, cancer and dementia over. Do not buy this summary if you are looking for a full copy of the audiobook. Lustig has gained some notoriety in recent years on both sides of the atlantic for his strong antisugar campaigning. But in order to avoid the hidden sugars that threaten our health and waistlines, dr.
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